UMass Research Farm Field Day

Event date/time: 
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 3:00pm to 7:00pm
Event Type: 
In-person
Event location: 
UMass Crop & Livestock Research & Education Farm
Price: 
Free!

Rain date: Thursday, July 29

Join us for a tour of current crop research at the farm and a demo of our newly purchased no-till transplanter in action. The research tour will go from 3-6pm and dinner will be provided at the end of the tour.

Registration is required due to COVID-19 safety protocols.

The tour will include presentations on the following research:

  • Demonstrating no-till transplanter at work
  • Finding the right mixture of summer cover crops for harvest
  • Strategies for terminating cover crops
  • Sunn hemp: Grow your own nitrogen fertilizer
  • Organic control of wireworms in sweet potatoes
  • Downy mildew-resistant cucumber varieties
  • Organic control of Cercospora leaf spot in Swiss chard
  • Bacterial wilt-resistant slicing cucumbers
  • Damping off in winter spinach
  • Dual-use solar on Massachusetts farms
  • Strategies for extending grazing seasons
  • Bumblebee responses to different "flavors" of basil
  • Stem cells in agriculture


This event is made possible by the Massachusetts Coordinated Soil Health Program, MDAR, Northeast SARE, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, and American Farmland Trust.

Click here to register for this event
Contact's name: 
Samantha Glaze-Corcoran
Contact's email: 
sglazecorcor@umass.edu
Contact's phone on day of event: 
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This event will be recorded: 
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