UPCOMING MEETINGS
Save the date for the meetings of 2021
Fall Field Day
September 11, 2021at Staehly Farm & Winery
278 Town St, East Haddam, CT 06423 • 860-873-9774
Directions:
From Hartford
Take CT-2 toward Norwich/New London
Take CT-149 Exit 16, toward Westchester/Moodus
Turn right onto Westchester Rd/CT–149. Continue to follow CT-149
Turn left onto Plains Rd/CT-151. Continue to follow CT-151
CT-151 becomes Town St/CT-82
Staehly Farm and Winery, is on the left
From New Haven
I-95 N exit toward New London
Merge onto CT-9N Exit 69 toward Essex/Hartford
Merge onto State Highway 82/CT-82 Exit 7 toward
E Haddam/Colchester
Turn left onto Saybrook Rd/CT-154/CT-82
Turn right onto Bridge Rd/CT-82. Continue to follow CT-82
Turn right onto Town St./Ct-82
Staehly Farm and Winery is on the left
Schedule of Events:
8:30 – 9:30 AM Registration
Coffee and Donuts available
9:30 -10:00 AM
Cultural and sales practices at Staehly Farm Chris & Kevin Staehly
10:00 AM-12:00 PM – Farm Tour
Phytophthora root rot and needle cast diseases Dr. Jonghao Li
Insect management/spider mite injury Dr. Rich Cowles
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Picnic Lunch provided by Staehly Farm
CCTGA Updates and Fair Ribbon Presentations
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Christmas Tree Promotion Board Discussion Gary Westlake
1:30-2:30PM
Discussion and tour of Weed Management Dr Jatindar Aulakh,
2 hours of recertification credit for pesticide applicator licenses will be available at the conclusion of the meeting.
Experts
Dr. Jatindar Aulakh Weed Scientist, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Dr. Jonghao Li Plant Pathologist, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Dr. Rich Cowles Entomologist, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Rain or shine, meeting starts with registration at 8:30 AM.
Registration is $25.00 which includes lunch
100th Anniversary Celebration for CAES Valley Lab
September 2, 2021 at CAES Valley Lab
153 Cook Hill Rd, Windsor, CT 06095 • 860-683-4982
The members of the CCTGA are invite to the Valley Laboratory 153 Cook Hill Road
Windsor, CT founded in 1921 and will be celebrating it’s 100-year anniversary on September 2, 2021. The day will include grower meetings that would consist of plot tours and talks in a tent, food, dignitaries, and friends. Our program has Tobacco and Christmas tree meetings in the morning, nursery/landscape and arborist/forestry and hops in the afternoon. In between we will have catered food, info on the history of the Tobacco Station/Valley Lab, and hopefully symbolically break ground on our renovation. The meetings have been approved for pesticide credits for growers. Hopefully, it will be a fun and productive day and a once-in-a-century event!