January 15, 2019

Thursday, February 14, 2019

“In This Issue”

2019 Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention

OMAFRA Vegetable

Team:

Elaine Roddy, Ridgetown

519 674 1616

elaine.roddy@ontario.ca

Dennis Van Dyk, Guelph

519 826 4587

dennis.vandyk@ontario.ca

Travis Cranmer, Guelph

519 826 4963

travis.cranmer@ontario.ca

Amanda Tracey, Ridgetown

519 674 1699

Amanda.Tracey@ontario.ca

2019 Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention The program schedule for the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention has been released and has over 40 different sessions this year. The conven-tion is February 20 & 21 this year and includes a trade show as well as speaker sessions.

There will be several vegetable specific sessions this year including: • Sweet Corn and Pumpkins(http://www.ofvc.ca/

sessions_day1.html#sweetcorn) • Vegetable Weed Control(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day1.html#vegetable) • Vegetable Disease Management(http://www.ofvc.ca/

sessions_day2.html#vegetabled) • Garlic(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day2.html#garlic) Other sessions that may be of interest to vegetable growers include: • Foliar Micronutrients(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day1.html#foliar) • Drip Irrigation(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day1.html#irrigation) • Emerging Tools for IPM(http://www.ofvc.ca/

sessions_day1.html#ipmsession) • Organic Pest Management(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day2.html#organic) • Precision Agriculture(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day2.html#precision) • Food Safety for Produce – What You Need to Know(http://www.ofvc.ca/

sessions_day2.html#foodsafety) • Business Management(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day2.html#business1) • Biostimulants(http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions_day2.html#biostimulants) • Sprayers: Doing More with Less(http://www.ofvc.ca/

sessions_day2.html#sprayers) A full list of the sessions as well as presentations is available at http://www.ofvc.ca/sessions.html or download the speaker schedule PDF(https://onvegetables.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Speaker-Schedule-OFVC-2019.pdf)