{"id":6896,"date":"2019-06-27T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2019-06-27T19:52:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:52:20","slug":"tour-nnyadp-new-fruit-research-plots-july-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2019\/06\/27\/tour-nnyadp-new-fruit-research-plots-july-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour NNYADP New Fruit Research Plots: July 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6541\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6541\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0019Juneberry2Mikes722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"100\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dr. Michael Burgess, left, with farm manager Dr. Michael H. Davis in the Juneberry nursery at the Willsboro Research Farm.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday, July 10, the NNYADP-funded new fruit research plots for Juneberry, aronia, and honeyberry will be on the free tour as past of the Cornell University Willsboro Research Farm Open House\u00a0 from 1:30pm to 4:00pm.\u00a0 A tour of the facilities and research plots will leave the main office at 48 Sayward Lane, Willsboro, NY, at 2:00pm.\u00a0 Light refreshments will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Research topics featured at this year\u2019s open house include industrial hemp trials, insect exclusion netting for cucumbers, corn silage variety evaluations, soil health plots, cover crops, warm season forage options, juneberry nursery and production trials, Aronia variety plantings, honeyberry variety trial, reduced tillage demonstration plots, and grain plots of winter triticale, winter rye, and winter barley.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982 E. Vreeland Baker, a Willsboro farmer and entrepreneur, donated his 352 acre farm to Cornell University for agricultural research and demonstration.\u00a0 The facility serves to connect Cornell faculty in Ithaca with the challenges and issues facing North Country farmers.\u00a0 Willsboro Research Farm is part of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public.\u00a0 For more information, call 518-963-7492.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, July 10, the NNYADP-funded new fruit research plots for Juneberry, aronia, and honeyberry will be on the free tour as past of the Cornell University Willsboro Research Farm Open House\u00a0 from 1:30pm to 4:00pm.\u00a0 A tour of the facilities and research plots will leave the main office at 48 Sayward Lane, Willsboro, NY, [&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-6896","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\/6896","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=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}