{"id":3907,"date":"2014-06-19T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2014-06-19T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:45:01","slug":"open-house-july-9-at-willsboro-research-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/19\/open-house-july-9-at-willsboro-research-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Open House July 9 at Willsboro Research Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, July 9 from 2pm to 4:30pm, the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm at Willsboro, NY, will hold an open house and tour of the facilities and diverse agricultural research plots. A number of research projects at the farm have been funded by the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Northern New York Agricultural Development Program<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Research topics featured at the 2014 open house event include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced tillage strategies for commercial pumpkin and sweet corn production<\/li>\n<li>Alley cover crops for plasticulture vegetable systems<\/li>\n<li>Developing Amelanchier \u2013 juneberry \u2013 as a commercial fruit crop<\/li>\n<li>High tunnel growing strategies for common and uncommon vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Forage grass and alfalfa variety trials<\/li>\n<li>Alternative annual forages<\/li>\n<li>Adaptive nitrogen management for corn<\/li>\n<li>Heritage and ancient wheat trials in an organic rotation<\/li>\n<li>Cold hardy wine grape trials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 1982 Willsboro farmer and entrepreneur E. Vreeland Baker donated his 352-acre farm to Cornell University for agricultural research and demonstration. The farm is managed by the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station.<\/p>\n<p>The July 9 event is free and open to the public. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/events.cornell.edu\/event\/open_house_at_willsboro_research_farm_5538\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Info<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/events.cornell.edu\/event\/open_house_at_willsboro_research_farm_5538\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, July 9 from 2pm to 4:30pm, the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm at Willsboro, NY, will hold an open house and tour of the facilities and diverse agricultural research plots. A number of research projects at the farm have been funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program. Research topics featured at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}