{"id":1967,"date":"2026-01-28T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:08:50","slug":"northeast-fruit-consortium-winter-webinar-series-starts-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2026\/01\/28\/northeast-fruit-consortium-winter-webinar-series-starts-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Fruit Consortium Winter Webinar Series starts next week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Northeast Fruit Consortium is again hosting our winter webinar series<\/a> (https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/agriculture-food-environment\/fruit\/news-events\/northeast-extension-fruit-consortium<\/a>) starting February 4. Please register here<\/a> (https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/2026netfcwebinars<\/a>).<\/p>\n

There are six webinars planned that cover strawberry IPM, kiwiberry production, apple color and sunburn prevention, pest mating disruption, changes to the Endangered Species Act and implications on pesticide use, and drought management.<\/p>\n

February 4, 2026 noon -1:00pm<\/strong>
\nTitle:<\/em> Management of Up and Coming Strawberry Diseases in the Northeastern United States (pesticide credits approved)<\/p>\n

February 11, 2026 noon – 1:00pm<\/strong>
\nTitle:<\/em> Kiwiberry Production in the Northeast (no pesticide credits)<\/p>\n

February 18, 2026 noon – 1:00pm<\/strong>
\nTitle:<\/em> Heat Mitigation: Sunburn and Fruit Coloring (no pesticide credits)<\/p>\n

February 25, 2026 noon – 1:00pm<\/strong>
\nTitle: <\/em>The Dating Game; Updates in Lepidopteran Mating Disruption (credits approved)
\nMarch 4, 2026 noon – 1:00pm<\/strong>
\nTitle:<\/em> USEPA Endangered Species Act Strategies and Pesticide Use (credits approved)<\/p>\n

March 11, 2026 noon – 1:00pm<\/strong>
\nTitle:<\/em> Practical Drought Management for Fruit Growers (no pesticide credits)<\/p>\n

We are charging a nominal fee for webinar access to help support the annual meeting of the Northeast Tree Fruit IPM Working Group which facilitates shared programming and collaborative research and Extension projects among IPM professionals across the region. If you would like a discount code for free registration, please email madeline.baughman before<\/em> registering Extension activities are available to all growers regardless of ability or interest to pay. Registration for all webinars should be completed at the same time, and the links you receive in your confirmation email should be saved for use on the day of the webinar.<\/p>\n

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\nAssociate Professor, Specialty Crops<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair<\/em>, Dept of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment<\/a>
\n(formerly Plant and Soil Science)
\nCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Northeast Fruit Consortium is again hosting our winter webinar series (https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/agriculture-food-environment\/fruit\/news-events\/northeast-extension-fruit-consortium) starting February 4. Please register here (https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/2026netfcwebinars). There are six webinars planned that cover strawberry IPM, kiwiberry production, apple color and sunburn prevention, pest mating disruption, changes to the Endangered Species Act and implications on pesticide use, and drought management. February 4, 2026 … Continue reading Northeast Fruit Consortium Winter Webinar Series starts next week!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Terence Bradshaw","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/author\/tbradsha\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4nZlV-vJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}