MFGA Winter Meeting and Education • February 6, 2024
King Farms
15 Scales Lane, Townsend, Massachusetts 01469
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Flower Growers’ Association
Due to the lateness of this announcement, you can bring your payment to the meeting but please preregister for our attendance count. Call Bob Luczai direct over the weekend at 508-935-8264. Non MFGA members welcome!
Registration includes lunch! Registration at the door (day of the meeting) is available but lunch may not be guaranteed. We will try to accommodate as many people as possible.
Click the button below for a downloadable pdf that includes the registration form and complete agenda.
8:30am
Registration and tour greenhouses open house—Complimentary coffee and pastries
9:50am
Welcome: Matt Piscitelli, MFGA President, Bart and Christy King, owners
9–10am
Updates with Pesticide Products, Policies and More with Taryn LaScola-Miner, Director Crop & Pest Services Director 1 pesticide credit available—Taryn, as Director of the MASS Crop and Pest Services Division will review of recent and upcoming changes relative to pesticide products, policies, laws and regulations. Basic pesticide information will be weaved into this session. This is a free-flowing presentation where questions are welcome. Topics may change depending on the needs of the audience.
10–11am
New Varieties from Seed for 2024 to help you be more profitable. Dylan Sedmak, Northeast Rep for Panamerican Seed—Dylan will review all the New Varieties produced from seed by Panamerican for 2024. He will review the culture and how they can fit into your growing and marketing program to make you more profitable. Also, a peek at what’s coming in 2025.
11am–12pm
Review of Insect Control for your Spring ’24 Plants Insect control in your Greenhouses—Prevention & Control 1 pesticide credit available—George Grant, Technical Service Manager for Griffin, will provide a review of the most common insect pests that we have in our greenhouses affecting our many plant crops. He will review how to control these pests effectively using conventional pesticides and importantly, what biocontrols to use to limit or eliminate those conventional methods. A must review as we begin our spring.
12–1pm
Catered Lunch—Reservations are required to accommodate as many as possible.
Short MFGA Annual Meeting: Matt Piscitelli, President and Bob Luczai, Secretary MFGA
1–2pm
How Much to Grow to Make You $$—Erin Pirro, Farm Credit East Production decisions need to be made in advance of the sales season —making too little disappoints you and having too much disappoints me! Join Erin for some decision-making tools that will help you project the sweet spot with confidence.
2–3pm
Navigating Today’s Marketing Maze: How to make it work for you with Kurt Fromherz, Founder of Sunrise Marketing, Hartford, Connecticut—Kurt will present an overview of the best marketing tools to improve your customer count. He will dive into the media tools, making high tech accessible, and how the tools plus your passion for plants can revolutionize your business. attracting more customers. What are the combination of promotional tools that will be successful in 2024!
For more information contact:
Bob Luczai, MFGA: 508-935-8264 (cell)
