Note: A final version (updated 7/17/2009) of the agenda is now available for download: SCASCSchedule.pdf
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- 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. - Registration opens
Poster set up opens
- 6:00 pm - SERA-IEG Group 20 Board Meeting (by invitation only)
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Tuesday, July 21 - Workforce Development Center, Eastern Shore Community College (ESCC)
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- Transportation on your own to ESCC.
- 8:00 - Registration begins - Refreshment will be available.
- Poster set-up in atrium of the Workforce Development Center
- 8:20 - Welcome and Conference Information - Mark Reiter, ESAREC
- 8:30 - Plenary Sessions: Multi-disciplinary problems and solutions with conservation tillage systems in vegetable and row crops.
- 8:30 - History of Agriculture on the Eastern Shore of Virginia - Butch Nottingham, VDACS and Bill Shockley, Northampton County VCE
- 8:45 - Insects - Tom Kuhar, ESAREC
- 9:15 - Horticulture - Josh Freeman, ESAREC
- 9:45 - Pathology - Steve Rideout, ESAREC
- 10:15 - Break with refreshments
- 10:30 - Weeds - Henry Wilson, ESAREC
- 11:00 - Aquaculture systems - TBA
- 11:30 - Eastern Shore Soil and Water Conservation District - Implementing BMPs in grain, fiber, and vegetable crops.
- 12:00 - Lunch
- 1:00 - 3:00 - Concurrent sessions. Please see the Call for Speakers section for information on submitting proposals for a presentation.
- Session 1 - Conservation systems research
- Cover crops
- Conservation tillage
- Equipment needs
- Cost share incentives
- Session 2 - Nutrient management
- Nitrogen management
- Lime management
- Water quality
- 3:00 - Break with refreshments
- 3:30 - 5:00 - Poster session. Authors present.
- 6:30 - Eastern Shore Crab Steam at ESAREC.
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Wednesday, July 22 - Field Tour on Charter Buses
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- 8:00 - Buses leave Holiday Inn Express and Best Western Inn for an agriculture tour of the Eastern Shore
- 12:00 - Lunch
- 1:00 - Tour continues
- 4:00 - Return to Holiday Inn Express and Best Western Inn
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Thursday, July 23 - Eastern Shore AREC Summer Field Day
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- 8:30 - 11:30 - Join in the Annual Summer Field Day. Features plot research demonstrating methyl bromide alternatives for vegetable production along with nutrient, weed, disease, insect and general production techniques for plasticulture tomatoes, potatoes, corn, cotton, soybeans and more.
- 11:30 - lunch
- 4:00 p.m. - Methyl Bromide Alternative Field Day
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