Alternatives to Insecticides
Farmer/Scientist Conference
Alternatives to Insecticides for Managing Vegetable Insects
New Haven, CT
Conference Sponsors:
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station https://www.ct.gov/caes
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut http://ct.nofa.org
Northeast Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program http://www.uvm.edu/~nesare/
Clinton S. Roberts Foundation
Participant List:
Myra Bonhage-Hale
La Paix Farm, Alum Bridge, WV
Speaker, Evaluation of Five Organic Techniques on Controlling Flea Beetles on Kennebec Potatoes and Best Bug-Outs from West Virginia
La Paix Farm website http://www.lapaixherbaljourney.com/
Report on SARE project "Scaring off the white-tailed deer" http://www.uvm.edu/~nesare/FNE97-163.html
Jude Boucher
University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service, Vernon, CT
Moderator, Corn session
University of Connecticut Integrated Pest Management Program website: http://www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/
Kathy Caruso
Upper Forty Farm, Cromwell, CT
Moderator, Beans and Mexican Bean Beetle session
Eliot Coleman
Farmer, Harborside, ME
Speaker, A History of the Idea that Healthy Plants are Resistant to Pests
Website for his books, "Four Season Harvest," and "The New Organic Grower" http://www.chelseagreen.com/Garden.htm
Eva Cuadrado
Guilford, CT
Moderator, session on crop diversity and biological control
Dr. W.H. Day
USDA Beneficial Insects Laboratory
Newark, DE
Speaker, Current Status of Biological Control of the Tarnished Plant Bug in NE Alfalfa, and Research on Extension of this Method to Other Crops
Website for the Beneficial Insects Research Laboratory http://bluehen.ags.udel.edu/biir/
Profile of Peristenus digoneutis, parasitoid of tarnished plant bug http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/parasitoids/peristenus_digoneutis.html
Bill Duesing
Old Solar Farm
Oxford, CT
Speaker in final review session
Dr. George Elliot
Dept. of Plant Science, U-67
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
moderator, Biological Control session
Website at University of Connecticut http://www.canr.uconn.edu/plsci/f_gce.htm
Aaron Gabriel
Cornell Cooperative Extension
Hudson Falls,
moderator, session on Solanaceous Crops and speaker in final review session
Steve Gilman
Ruckytucks Farm
Stillwater, NY
Speaker, Bio-strip Intercroppping at Ruckytucks Farm
Website describing and giving ordering information for his books on Community Supported Agriculture http://www.csacenter.org/resourcelist.html
Walter Greist
Mill River Valley Gardens
North Haven, CT
moderator, session on Cabbage Family, and Specifically, Flea Beetles
Jake Guest
Killdeer Farm
Norwich, VT
Speaker, Tarnished Plant Bug
Wayne Hansen
Wayne’s Organic Garden
Oneco, CT
Moderator, Potato Leafhopper session
Ruth Hazzard
Dept. of Entomology-West
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
Speaker, Integrating Microbial Insecticides and Oils into Sweet Corn IPM
University of Massachusetts Vegetable and Small Fruit Website http://www.umass.edu/umext/programs/agro/vegsmfr/
Elizabeth Henderson
Peacework Farm
Newark, NY
Speaker, Pests and Peacework, and in final review session
Website for her book, "Sharing the Harvest" http://www.gvocsa.org/book.html
Keynote address to the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference http://www.gvocsa.org/umkeynote399.html
Dr. Michael Hoffmann
Dept. of Entomology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Speaker, Biological Control: Past, Present & Future; Biological Control of European Corn Borer in Sweet Corn with Trichogramma ostriniae; Integrated Pest Management for Cucumber Beetles, Biological Control of Tomato Fruitworm with Trichogramma Wasps
Website for New York State Vegetable Integrated Pest Management Program http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ipmnet/ny/vegetables/index.html
Website to order his book "Natural Enemies of Vegetable Insect Pests" http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/manual.html
Website for report to SARE on Sustainable Management Tactics for Cucumber Beetles in Cucurbits http://www.uvm.edu/~nesare/ANE95-22.html
Profile of Trichogramma ostriniae, parasitoid of European corn borer http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/parasitoids/trichogramma_ostriniae.html
Carol Holko
Maryland Department of Agriculture
Annapolis, MD
Speaker, Biological Control of Mexican Bean Beetle from the Farm to the Garden
Website on Biological Control of the Mexican Bean Beetle http://www.mda.state.md.us/plant/mex.htm
Bambi Jones
Hidden Valley Farm
Alna, ME
Michael Keilty
Maple Spring Farm
Morris, CT
Speaker, Biodiversity in Farm Vegetable Production: Sustainable Agriculture Practices
Website for his conference on Alternative & Herbal Livestock Health Conference http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~wwwahlhc
Joan and Tom Kemble
Glastonbury, CT 06033-4030
moderators of session on Tarnished Plant Bug and final session on review of conference
Dr. William Lamp
Dept. of Entomology
Univ. of Maryland
College Park, MD
Speaker, Potato Leafhopper
Website at the University of Maryland http://www.entm.umd.edu/faculty/wlamp_cv.html
Steve Mong
Farmer, Stow, MA
Speaker, Corn Earworm and other Challenges of Growing Corn Organically
Bryan O’Hara
Tobacco Road Farm
Lebanon, CT
Speaker, Squash Vine Borer Control with Cotton Row Cover
Website for his SARE report on Row covers and the squash vine borer http://www.uvm.edu/~nesare/FNE98-203.html
Cass Peterson
Flickerville Mountain Farm and Groundhog Ranch
Warfordsburg, PA
Speaker, Insect Habitat on a Diversified Farm
Website profile of her farm http://1000ways.baka.com/profiles/peterson.htm
Dr. Sharad Phatak
Dept. of Horticulture
Coastal Plain Experiment Station
Tifton, GA
Speaker, What Growers Can Do to Enhance Biological Control of Insects
Website Tifton Campus, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of Georgia http://sacs.cpes.peachnet.edu
Biological control as a component of sustainable agriculture http://sacs.cpes.peachnet.edu/lewis/
Dr. Larry Phelan
Department of Entomology
OARDC, Ohio State University
Wooster, OH
Speaker, The Relationship between Soil-Management History and Corn Susceptibility to Pests
Website Ohio State University Department of Entomology http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/osuent/index.html
Emily Brown Rosen
Organic Materials Review Institute, NJ
Speaker, Insect Control Strategies Used by Organic Farmers in New Jersey
Eero Ruuttila
Nesenkeag Coop Farm
Wilton, NH
Speaker, Harvesting Greens as a Strategy to Control Squash Bugs ( Anasa tristis) and Living Straw Mulch for Suppression of Colorado Potato Beetle
Website including report to the Organic Farming Research Foundation on Living Straw Mulch for Suppression of Colorado Potato Beetle http://www.ofrf.org/news/ib2.pdf
Eric Sideman
Maine Organic Farming and Gardening Association
Augusta, ME
Speaker, Strategies and Tactics that Work in Maine
Website for Maine Organic Farming and Gardening Association http://www.mofga.org
David Stanley
IPM Consultant
Belchertown, MA
Speaker, Wild Predators Feeding on Two-Spotted Spider Mite in Eggplant
Dr. Kimberly Stoner
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
New Haven, CT 06504
Conference Coordinator, Editor of Proceedings
Speaker, What Do We Know about Flea Beetles? and Experiments with Using a Parasitic Wasp for Biological Control of Mexican Bean Beetle on Snap Beans
Website for The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station https://www.ct.gov/caes/
Lee Warren
Thankful Circle Farm
Killingworth, CT
Moderator, session on The Effects of Plant Health and Soil Health on Susceptibility to Pests
Chris Worden
Guilford, CT
Moderator, Strategies and Tactics Currently Used by Organic Farmers