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Schedule at-a-Glance

The following schedule of events is for the 2021 Northeast Greenhouse Conference & Expo which has passed.  Please check back in Spring 2023 for a preliminary schedule of event for the Fall 2023 Conference. 
Tuesday November 2, 2021
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM Exhibitor Set-Up Parade
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Exhibitor Registration Courtyard
Wednesday November 3, 2021
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration & Information Desk Open Courtyard
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Concurrent Educational Session Block 1
  • Let's Figure Out Gen X, Y & Z
  • Working Efficiently & Effectively/Trabajando de Manera Eficiente y Efectiva
  • Botrytis prevention and management (cover bloom safety)
  • Silicon as Plant Beneficial Nutrient: Improving Growth and Plant Health
Multiple Locations
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
Sponsored by Bayer
Parade
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Trade Show Open Parade
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Concurrent Educational Session Block 2
  • Applying a lean approach in different parts of the business
  • Principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Ornamental Crops/Principios de Manejo Integrado de Plagas (MIP) en Cultivos Ornamentales
  • Invasion of the Plant Snatchers: Invasive pests affecting ornamentals
  • Develop a nutrient program
Multiple Locations
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Lunch & time to visit the Exhibit Hall Parade
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Keynote Address by John Kennedy, "The Attraction and Retention of Top Talent" Federal
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Break & time to visit the Exhibit Hall Parade
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Concurrent Educational Session Block 3
  • Mitigating May Madness
  • Tips to ensure consumer success with compact fruiting vegetables for patio and indoor gardening/Consejos para garantizar el éxito del consumidor con vegetales compactos para jardinería de interior y en patios
  • Mum's the Word: Secrets About Pests and Diseases of Chrysanthemum
  • Sanitation for disease management
Multiple Locations
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Concurrent Educational Session Block 4
  • One Hour Strategic Plan
  • Pest scouting in nursery production/Monitoreo de plagas en la producción de viveros
  • Results of research trials & hot issues in greenhouses
  • Top issues in GHs*
Multiple Locations
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Northeast Greenhouse Conference Welcome Reception and Townhall Panel "What's in Store for 2022?"
Reception Sponsored by Ball Seed. All invited to attend. Light hors d'oeuvres and cash bar available.
Panelists: Steve Castorani, North Creek Nurseries; Andy Huntington, Proven Winners; Christopher Valley, Prides Corner Farms, Inc.; Brian Sullivan, Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, Inc.; Jim Kennedy, Ball Seed; Moderator Neil Mattson, Cornell University

The last two years have brought immense change to the greenhouse industry. Hear from supply chain experts emerging trends for 2022. Will consumer interest in gardening stay elevated or go back to pre-2020 levels? What are the must have hard and live goods for 2022? Are supply chain challenges here to stay and how to cope?
Courtyard
Thursday November 4, 2021
7:30 AM - 3:00 PM Registration & Information Desk Open Courtyard
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM Trade Show Open Parade
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Concurrent Educational Session Block 1
  • Managing the Daylength and Light Intensity of Specialty Cut flowers in the Greenhouse
  • Specialty leafy green production: Managing the environment and culture
  • Energy Conservation Strategies for Greenhouse Crop Production
Multiple Locations
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Concurrent Educational Session Block 2
  • Cannabis biology and stock plant production
  • Tips for producing high-quality, non-flowering and flavorful culinary herbs by manipulating light, CO2 and temperature
  • Assessing greenhouse structural health with drones
  • Single Cells + Slime = Bacteria to Avoid in the Greenhouse
  • Best Perennial Performers at the Penn State Flower Trials
Multiple Locations
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Refreshment Break with Exhibitors
Sponsored by ICL Specialty Fertilizers
Parade
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Concurrent Educational Session Block 3
  • How to use light in cannabis cultivation
  • Water and nutrient management for leafy greens
  • Mycorrhizae 101 (Allied Trade Sponsored)
  • Root rots and their management strategies
  • Plant Growth Regulators in Herbaceous Perennial Production
Multiple Locations
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Lunch & time to visit the Exhibit Hall Parade
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Educational Session Block 4
  • The most common cannabis pests and their control options
  • Understanding greenhouse climate control for high yielding leafy greens and herbs
  • Putting Horticulture Back Into Popular Culture
  • How to handle and release a variety of beneficial arthropods for greenhouse rol, including mistakes to avoid
  • Tune in to Green Infrastructure through the Power of Plants
Multiple Locations
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent Educational Session Block 5
  • Integrated Rootzone Management in Cannabis Production 
  • Managing diseases on herbs
  • Connecting Virtually and In Person - A Garden Communicators Meeting 
  • Upcoming challenges in Biocontrol/ BCA compatibility with traditional products
  • Improving Irrigation Applications
Multiple Locations
3:00 PM Trade Show Closes N/A
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Concurrent Educational Session Block 6
  • Optimizing CBD yields
  • Practices to have an effective IPM and biocontrol program
  • Keep yourself up to date with what's happening in pest management
  • Diseases of Perennials and Their Management
Multiple Locations

thank you to our 2021 conference sponsors!

Country Folks Grower
Media Sponsor
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MEDIA SPONSOR
Ball Seed Logo
Wednesday Reception Sponsor
Bayer Logo
Session Host & Refreshment Break Sponsor
ICL Specialty Fertilizers logo
Refreshment Break Sponsor

Thank you to our 2021 conference exhibitors!

ASB Greenworld, Inc.
Automated Systems
Ball Seed
BASF
Bayer Greenhouse and Nursery
Biobee USA
Biobest
​BioSafe Systems
Bioworks, Inc.
Candidus
Charter Oak Nursery Sales
Chestnut Hill Marketing
Connecticut Greenhouse Company, LLC
DS Cole Growers Inc
Eason Horticultural Resources
​East Jordan Plastics, Inc.
Eastern Shore Nursery of Virginia
Envirem Organics Ltd
​Farm Credit East ACA
Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, Inc.
Gro 'n Sell, Inc
​Helena Agri Enterprises
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​Horticultural Professionals
IPM Laboratories, Inc.
J.C. Van Der Spek Greenhouse Services, LLC.
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Jolly Farmer Products
JP Bartlett Co, Inc.
King Farm
KOBA Corp.​
​Koppert Biological Systems, Inc.
KUBTEC Scientific
​​​Lambert Peat Moss Inc
Lynx Associates, Inc
Maril Products, Inc.
Messersmith Biomass Boilers
Mycorrhizal Applications
Neptune's Harvest
Northeast Greenhouse & Nursery Supply
OESCO Inc.
OHP
Oldcastle, APG
​Pace49 Inc.
​Paul Boers Manufacturing

PEX, Inc.​
​Plant Products
Pleasant View Gardens
​Premier Tech Horticulture

Prides Corner Farms
Progressive Grower
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Rimol Greenhouse Systems
Smart Farm Innovations, LLC
Sonco Pipe & Tube
Stuppy Greenhouses
Sustane Natural Fertilizer
Syngenta Professional Solutions
TakkaCor Technologies
Texpak, Inc.
The Jim Reck Company LLC
​United Greenhouse Systems, Inc.
Weaverline, LLC

Location of 2021 Northeast Greenhouse Conference & EXPO

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