The annual Cornell Field Crop Research Field Day will be Thursday, August 1 at the Musgrave Research Farm, Aurora, N.Y. The program features walking and hay wagon tours in the morning and afternoon.

Morning & Afternoon Tours
Explore the research farm with walking and hay wagon tours featuring expert-led stops, including two tours by the New York Soil Health Team:

Kristen Loria & Matt Ryan: Balancing Trade-Offs When No-Till Planting into Cover Crops
Learn how to optimize your no-till planting practices to improve soil health and manage cover crops effectively.

Joseph Amsili: Soil Health Benchmarks, Carbon Stocks, and Solar Farms
Gain insights into the New York soil health benchmarks, understand the role of carbon stocks in sustainable farming, and discuss solar farms.

Additional Tour Stops:

• Vipan Kumar: Herbicide programs for weed control in corn and soybean
• Mike Hunter & Lynn Sosnoskie: Weed seed movement and the importance of cleaning equipment
• Louis Longchamps: On-farm experimentation, robotic interseeding
• Ginny Moore and Erika Everest: Dry-bean presentation and tasting (tasting over lunch)
• Quirine Ketterings and Kirsten Workman: Value of manure and SSEA approach
• Lilly Elliott & Katja Poveda: Seedcorn maggot: predicting damage risk in New York

DEC and CCA credits have been requested.

The program is free and open to the public. A light breakfast and free lunch will be provided.

Schedule at a glance:

• 9:00-9:45 am – Registration & light refreshments outside Field House
• 9:45-9:50 am – Welcome & instructions
• 10-11:55 am – Morning tours
• 12-12:55 pm – Lunch
• 1-2:55 pm – Afternoon tours
• 3:00 pm – Opportunity for discussion with presenters