2026 Winter Seminar Series Registration is Open!

Registration is open for the 2026 Northeast Extension Fruit Consortium Winter Webinar Series. This is a series of six webinars hosted by UVM Fruit Program, UMass Extension, and Cornell Cooperative Extension and supported by URI, UNH, UMaine, UConn Extension.

Registration and pesticide applicator credits are handled by the UVM Fruit Program; after registering, you will receive a link to the Zoom session hosted by UMass Extension. Be sure to save the confirmation email which contains the links to your webinars. $10 per webinar to register, with discounts for registering for multiple webinars. Webinar registration fees 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. Extension activities are available to all growers regardless of ability or interest to pay. If you would like a discount code for free registration, please email madeline.baughman@uvm.edu.

Dates, Times and Upcoming Sessions:

February 4, 2026 noon -1:00pm
Management of Up and Coming Strawberry Diseases in the Northeastern United States

February 11, 2026 noon - 1:00pm
Kiwiberry Production in the Northeast

February 18, 2026 noon - 1:00pm
Heat Mitigation: Sunburn and Fruit Coloring

February 25, 2026 noon - 1:00pm
The Dating Game; Updates in Lepidopteran Mating Disruption 

March 4, 2026 noon - 1:00pm
USEPA Endangered Species Act Strategies and Pesticide Use

March 11, 2026 noon - 1:00pm
Practical Drought Management for Fruit Growers 

Learn more and register by visiting: https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/fruit/news-events/northeast-extension-fruit-consortium