Upcoming Grower Meetings

It's taken me a while to put together a list of winter meetings, and it's already meeting season! Below is a summary of the meetings I will be attending and the topics I will be covering. Hope to see you there! I've listed the number of attendees behind those meetings that have already occurred.

Tobacco meetings

January 11, 12pm. Coastal Plain tobacco production meeting. Rocky Mount Farmers Market, Rocky Mount, NC. Topic: New pesticides and their use, Late season insect management. 130 attendees.

January 13, 12pm. Lenoir County tobacco production meeting. Lenoir County Center, Kinston, NC. Topic: New pesticides and their use, Late season insect management. 90 attendees.

January 18, 5pm. Vance, Franklin, and Oxford County tobacco production meeting. Aycock Recreation Center, Henderson, NC. Topic: New pesticides and their use, Late season insect management. 125 attendees.

January 19, 11am. Alamance, Person, Caswell, and Rockingham County tobacco production meeting. Yancyville, NC. Topic: New pesticides and their use, Late season insect management. Contact Roger Cobb, Alamance County NCCE, for location information. 130 attendees.

January 24, 10am. Forsyth, Stokes, and Surry County tobacco production meeting. Forsyth County Center, Winston-Salem, NC. NC. Topic: New pesticides and their use, Late season insect management.

January 27, 6pm. Craven County Tobacco Meeting. Craven County Center, New Bern, NC. Topic: New pesticides, TSWV tools: Thrips prediction website and treatment timing, late season insect management.

January 28, 12pm. Wayne County tobacco production meeting. Wayne County Center, Goldsboro, NC. Topic: New pesticides and their use, Late season insect management.

Blueberry meetings

January 11-12. Blueberry Open House. Sampson County Agri-Exposition Center, Clinton, NC. I will be presenting on the 12th and will be discussing SWD and blueberry maggot. Shelley Rogers, a masters student in my laboratory, will be sharing results from the first year of her work on pollinator diversity and efficiency in blueberries on the 11th. 50 attendees.

January 15. SunnyRidge Growers Meeting. Orlando, FL. Topic: SWD monitoring and management. 80 attendees.

Grape meetings

February 4-6. NC Winegrowers Association Annual Meeting. I will be speaking on Sunday, February 6 at 9am and discussing grape root borer, cutworms & grape flea beetle, and two spotted spider mites. I will also touch on grape phylloxera and SWD. You can find the entire meeting program here.

Canebery Meetings
February 22. 10am-2:15pm. 4th Annual North Carolina Commercial Blackberry and Raspberry Growers Association Meeting. Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station, Mills River, NC. I will provide an insect update and discuss SWD.

General Fruit Meetings
February 22, 10am. Plants, Pests, and Pathogens, an NCSU led webinar for Master Gardeners and others. See here for details on joining the webinar. I will be speaking on SWD identification and management for home gardeners. I'll be joining remotely from Mills River, NC, where I will be attending the 4th Annual NC Commercial Blackberry and Raspberry Growers Association Meeting.