Eastern Shore
Vegetable Meeting
February 23, 2016
8:30am – 3:00pm
Eastern Shore Hospital Center
5262 Woods Road, Cambridge MD 21613
8:30am
Registration - Continental Breakfast
9:00am
Tomatoes, Potatoes, Cucurbits, and
Beans: Disease Updates
9:45am
FSMA Highlights and GAP Training
Update
10:30am
Crop Insurance for Vegetable Growers
11:15am
Using Conservation Tillage to Help
Manage Weeds in Vegetable Crops
12:15pm
Lunch
1:00pm
Fine Tuning Vegetable Fertility and
Enhanced Tomato Pollination
2:00pm
Maximizing Plant Available Nitrogen
from Cover Crops
Guihua Chen, UMD, Post-Doc Entomology
2:30pm
Feeding Habits of the Brown
Marmorated Stink Bug on Vegetable
Crops
Emily Zobel, UMD, Faculty Extension Assistant
Dr. Kate Everts, UMD Professor & Extension
Specialist, Vegetable Plant Pathology
Justine Beaulieu, UMD, Faculty Research
Assistance/GAPs Educator
Dr. Howard Leathers, UMD, Associate Professor,
Dr. Cerruti R.R. Hooks, UMD, Associate Professor
& Extension Specialist, Entomology
Dan Schwaninger, MDA
Nutrient Mgt. Specialist
Dr. Gerald E. Brust, UMD, IPM Vegetable Specialist
Registration: Open to all. Please register Email ezobel@umd.edu or call the Dorchester County
Extension Office at 410-228-8800 by February 19. If you need special assistance please notify
registration contact 5 days prior to the event.
Approved Credits: 3 Nutrient Management Credits and 4 private applicator credits.
The University of Maryland Extension programs are open to any person and will not discriminate against anyone because of race, age, sex,
color, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, political affiliation,
and gender identity or expression.