JULY 2008

Seed Growers' Field Day

This annual event, focused on small grains and forages, will be held at the NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn on Rt. 266 in Ithaca, NY.

This year's agenda will feature presentations by people from the research programs of Dr. Mark Sorrells, Dr. Don Viands, Dr. Gary Bergstrom, and Alan Westra.

Sample of Agenda:

• Small Grain Varieties and Breeding for Quality and Pest Resistance
  Winter wheat variety recommendations; Jensen and other new varieties in the pipeline; Wheat CAP project; Breeding for Fusarium head blight and preharvest sprouting resistance; spring oat and spring barley recommendations
  
  
• Certified Seed Update
  Field Crops Pathology; small grain diseases; Brown root rot on alfalfa and forage grasses; Smut diseases and seed treatment in switchgrass
  
  
• Forage Varieties, Pest Management, and Breeding
  What forage yield trials are available for viewing? What effect does grass mixed with alfalfa have on potato leafhopper numbers and damage to alfalfa? What's new for alfalfa forage quality? Where are we at with breeding for resistance to alfalfa snout beetle and the clover root curculio? How are warm season grasses performing for biofuel use?

Registration and refreshments start at 8:30 AM and the program begins at 9:00 AM. DEC and CCA continuing education credits requested. Contact: Margaret Smith 607-255-1654, mes25@cornell.edu.

Horse Leaders' Meeting
at the Drill Team Arena

District Dairy Judging
at Alfred State College

CDL Training Informational Meeting

Pullorum Testing
at Wyoming County Fairgrounds, Pike

4-H Dog Trial
at Sue Schum's in Alexander

Saturday,
July 12, 2008
11:00 a.m.

4-H Days at Darien Lake
Darien Lake is hosting 4-H Days again this year! With a coupon (available at the 4-H office), 4-H members, leaders and their families pay just $15.99 each for a full day of fun - that’s a savings of nearly $14 off a regular full price main gate admission!
Along with great savings, one coupon offers a discount for up to six people. Simply present the coupon at Darien Lake’s main gate. Pick up a coupon at the Wyoming County 4-H office while supplies last!

Monday,
July 14, 2008
7:00 p.m.

Field Crop Weed Control
at Robert B. Musgrave Research Farm
Aurora, NY

Registration deadline is July 7th. Call 607-255-7889.

CDL Training Program
For Wyoming County Producers

Class size is limited to 15 so please call Cindy Kiel at 585-786-2251 or e-mail her at cjk84@cornell.edu to reserve a seat.

4-H Clay Bead Workshop
(See page 18 of the May/June 2008 4-H News)

MANNEQUIN MODELING & PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS SIGN-UP DEADLINE

4-H Rider Evaluations
at Drill Team Arena in Warsaw

Aurora Field Day
at Robert B. Musgrave Research Farm
Tours of Plots
Call 607-255-7889.

Landscape Horticulture 2008 Short Course
Cornell campus
Starting at 10 AM on Wednesday, 7/23 and concluding at noon on Thursday, 7/24).

The program is geared toward extension educators, nursery operators, and landscape maintenance professionals (and other folks seriously interested in maintaining and growing landscape plants), and will consist of classroom instruction and site visits in the Ithaca area. Coverage will include invasive species (both plants and insects), pest management, new evergreen species, and other topics of current interest. Offered by the Landscape Horticulture Program Work Team, and will provide certification credits for DEC, ISA, CNP, and Landscape Architecture.

Contact Paul Weston, Woody Ornamentals Entomologist, Department of Entomology, Cornell University at 607-255-0165 or paw23@cornell.edu.

Regional Horse Judging
Chautauqua County Fairgrounds
(See page 22 of the May/June 2008 4-H News)

4-H Dog Trial
Wyoming County Fairgrounds in Pike

WYOMING COUNTY DOG PHOTO CONTEST ENTRIES DUE

RAINDATE for State Fair Qualifying Game Show

District Dairy Judging
at Dunkirk

Perennial Biofeedstock Tour and Speakers
Big Flats Plant Materials Center

To register, please call 607-652-8404.

AUGUST 2008

Monday,
August 4, 2008
7:00 p.m.

4-H Tour and Gladiola Project Meeting
Jack Spencer's Farm in Perry

Monday,
August 4, 2008
7:00 p.m.

Dairy Committee Meeting
at Wyoming County Fairgrounds in Pike

2008 Wyoming County 4-H Meat Animal Auction
" Hogs"
at Wyoming County Fairgrounds in Pike, NY

Thursday,
August 7, 2008

State Tractor Driving Competition
at Empire Farm Days

Friday,
August 8, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Youth Building Exhibits Judged
at Wyoming County Fair in Pike

Wyoming County Fair
Pike, NY

• Official County Fair Web Site

Sunday,
August 10, 2008
5:00 p.m.

Vegetable Art Contest
at the Wyoming County Fair in Pike

Potato Association of America Annual Meeting and Conference
Buffalo, NY

Monday,
August 11, 2008
1:00 p.m.

4-H "Shake-Off" Contest
at the Wyoming County Fair in Pike

Tuesday,
August 12, 2008
6:00 p.m.

Create-A-Cake Contest
at the Wyoming County Fair in Pike

Wednesday,
August 13, 2008
2:00 p.m.

4-H Jeopardy Quiz Bowl
at the Wyoming County Fair in Pike

New York State Fair

Thursday,
August 21, 2008

State Fair Dairy Challenge

Friday,
August 22, 2008

State Fair Dairy Judging

SEPTEMBER 2008

OCTOBER 2008

2008 NY Beef Tour to PA
8th Biannual NY Beef Producers Tour

This year we will be traveling to Pennsylvania. Planned tour stops include commercial and seedstock cow/calf operations, feedlots, organic beef production and packing plant, grass finished production and marketing, Pennsylvania Bull Test station, the PSU Beef Experiment station and the Gettysburg Battle Field.

For more information contact Mike Baker, Cornell Beef Extension Specialist, 607-255-5923, mjb28@cornell.edu. Watch http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/beef/ for upcoming details.

Maple Confection I Workshop
Ontario County

Contact: Russell Welser, Cornell Cooperative Extension Ontario County , 480 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424, Phone: 585.394.3977, Fax: 585.394.0377, e-mail rw43@cornell.edu

NOVEMBER 2008

DECEMBER 2008

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wyoming County
ANNUAL MEETING
Theme: 4-H Camp Wyomoco