WNY Bedding Plants School
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Water Quality talk with Todd Cavins from Ball
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Educational videos on NYSFI YouTube Channel
Find videos on:
Impatiens downy mildew
Chrysanthemum white rust
Virus testing
Testing water alkalinity
Using Pour-thru for soil testing
Greenhouse sanitation
AND MORE...

Impatiens downy mildew resources.

Poinsettia BioControl
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Social Media - Summary from Will Heeman's workshop
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Clean cuttings & plugs - Valentin handout
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Global pest problems - Valentin handout
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Chrysanthemum white rust occurences Sept 19, 2012
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Chrysanthemum white rust

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Kathy Pufahl Container Competition - Over $10,000 in Donations
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Education:

Through seminars, conferences, newsletters, and online tools.

• Find program agendas and registrations under "Events".
  
• View our most recent newsletters.
• Watch short, educational videos at our YouTube channel.
  

Marketing of NYS Floriculture:

Through collaborations, grants, and online tools.

• For greenhouse businesses - do you have something to sell? Go to our "Marketplace".
• Looking for plants? Go to our "Marketplace" to place a wanted item for free. 
• NYSFI worked with a Cornell, Marketing Plan Development class during the Fall 2012 semester. Great ideas were generated from this collaboration.
  

A Voice for NYS Floriculture:

Through meetings, committee work, direct mailings, and online tools.

• Find a summary of NYS Floriculture under "Hot Topics and Resources".
• Find a summary of meeting and committee work under About us / Minutes.
• Our board members work on various committees and events. Examples include: NYSFI is a member of the Council of Agriculture Organizations; Taste of NY event organized by Farm Bureau; greenhouse programming at the Empire State Producers Expo in Syracuse; Invasive Species Council; NorthEast Greenhouse Conference; Cornell Field Day; and more.
  

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Floriculture in New York State

According to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Floriculture 2012 Report:
(Report only includes operations with $10,000+ in sales and excludes production of nursery products.)

• New York Floriculture production ranked 8th in the nation for the total commercial sales in 2011 with $171 million.
• In 2011, there were 615 growers. (This number does not include all the retail operations.)
• In 2011, the total covered area of floriculture crop production in NYS was 25.3 million square feet and the total open ground production space was 670 acres

Did you know?
Floriculture is one of the few agricultural industries to collect sales tax dollars for New York State.