Upcoming Events

Winter educational meetings for fruit growers are scheduled for nine locations throughout the state. Program highlights include: • Disease Control Strategies Following the Challenging 2011 Season • Maintaining an Effective IPM Program while Controlling New Fruit Insect Pests • Horticultural Updates on Rootstocks, Herbicides, and E-Extension • Growing Fruit of Consistent Size and Quality • New Tools for Calibrating your Airblast Sprayer.

Winter educational meetings for fruit growers are scheduled for nine locations throughout the state. Program highlights include: • Disease Control Strategies Following the Challenging 2011 Season • Maintaining an Effective IPM Program while Controlling New Fruit Insect Pests • Horticultural Updates on Rootstocks, Herbicides, and E-Extension • Growing Fruit of Consistent Size and Quality • New Tools for Calibrating your Airblast Sprayer.

Winter educational meetings for fruit growers are scheduled for nine locations throughout the state. Program highlights include: • Disease Control Strategies Following the Challenging 2011 Season • Maintaining an Effective IPM Program while Controlling New Fruit Insect Pests • Horticultural Updates on Rootstocks, Herbicides, and E-Extension • Growing Fruit of Consistent Size and Quality • New Tools for Calibrating your Airblast Sprayer.

A special workshop on the apple scab situation in Pennsylvania will be held to assist producers in preparing for the season ahead. The guest speaker is Dr. Dave Rosenberger from Cornell University.

Learn how you can accept mobile payments and make it easier for customers to pay for your local food. This webinar will provide information on the tools available to accept mobile payments for farm markets, farmers markets, roadside stands, and agritourism businesses. The webinar will share information about current tools and applications available to allow you to accept payment via smart devices. We will also share highlights about future trends in the payment industry.

Get connected with the food industry’s new online mobile web app. Make it easy for the increasing number of mobile users to find your farm, farmers’ market, winery, retail store, restaurant or other food business. Benefit from the latest technology available to you free through the growing national MarketMaker network.

Anyone can say anything about a business or product at any time. Social media provides more outlets for sharing that message. This webinar will provide tips and best practices for developing and maintaining a reputation in the social media world. It’s important to respond to positive and negative feedback, but responses need to be carefully considered. Learn more in this webinar.

Keeping track of one or more Twitter or Facebook accounts can be tedious. Thankfully, there are several tools that can be used to monitor what’s being said about any topic or to post information for multiple accounts. This session will describe computer-based tools such as HootSuite and TweetDeck as well as mobile apps that can be used to manage a company’s social media presence.