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JANUARY 14-15, 2014 • MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGExpo

SYMPOSIUM

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• Large trade show both days• 14 hours pesticide credits• Over 20 seminars• Close-by, affordable for all your staff

JANUARY 14 & 15, 2014 • AT MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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Connecticut Nursery & Landscape AssociationConnecticut Greenhouse Growers Association

P.O. Box 414Botsford CT 06404

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PERMIT 45MONROE CT 06468

Labor Laws Every Owner and Manager Should Know9:00-10:00 amLabor Attorney Bob Noonan shares his insight on labor laws that many green industry businesses can easily overlook.

Tuesday, January 14

Results of Japanese Barberry/Euonymus and Alternatives Testing10:00 am-12:00 pmDr. Mark Brand will share his results of his trials on assorted Japanese Barberry and Euonymus alata cultivars, and Dr. Jessica Lub-bell will share her research findings on adaptability of native alternatives.

Emerald Ash Borer and Friends: Beetles to Watch Out for in 20141:00-2:00 pmDr. Claire Rutledge will give an update on the Emerald Ash Borer in Connecticut including information about management and long-term prospects. In addition, Asian Longhorned Beetle, Red-Headed Flea Beetle and Oriental Beetle will be discussed.

Garden Tourism2:00-3:00 pmGardening is the dominant contemporary leisure activity today and garden visiting one of the most popular tour-ism activities. This session by Dr. Richard Benfield will look at the dimensions of gardening and garden tourism around the world for lessons nurseries and nurserymen can use in getting their fair share of garden tourism.

CNLA/CGGA Winter Symposium 2014 Dr. Sharon M. Douglas

Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

New Haven, CT

Title: Update on Key Diseases for 2014 Each year, nursery and landscape professionals are challenged by new or re-emerging diseases that impact plants they grow or maintain. This presentation will highlight recent progress with understanding and managing boxwood blight as well as other important key diseases of plants in production and landscape settings. Bio: Dr. Sharon M. Douglas is a plant pathologist and head of the Department of Plant Pathology & Ecology of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. She has diagnosed plant health problems for growers, green professionals, and homeowners throughout the state for over 32 years. Sharon’s outreach efforts include fact sheets, disease management guides, and presentations.

Update on Key Diseases for 20143:00-4:00 pmEach year, nursery and landscape profes-sionals are challenged by new or re-emerging diseases that impact plants

they grow or maintain. This presentation by Dr. Sharon Douglas will highlight recent progress with understanding and managing boxwood blight as well as other important key diseases of plants in production and landscape settings.

Profitable Nursery Practices2:00-3:00 pmDwight Hughes will show his expertise in the mecha-nization of growing speci-men trees and shrubs. All elements of his system are

mechanical with very little labor input, includ-ing planting, cultivating, spraying, digging, burlapping and handling.

Lean Green9:00-10:00 amGary Cortes will discuss how to improve your profits by reducing cost utilizing Lean Flow techniques. Learn what progressive growers are doing to improve productivity, quality, reduce shrink, and optimize floor space.

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Gary grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Northern N.J. He attended Trenton State College in NJ and earned a bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering in 1986. He has worked for a variety of manufacturing companies in different industries including Ortho Pharmaceutical, a J&J company, American Standard, Coach Leatherwear, a division of Sara Lee and JCIT – Colorado consulting firm. During his career in these companies he held various positions from industrial engineer, lean manufacturing coordinator, manufacturing manager to Director of Technology teaching and implementing Lean Flow for companies around the world. In 1998 Gary, with three other partners formed FlowVision, LLC, - The Lean Business & Supply Chain Consulting Group. Gary’s 25 years of Lean Flow Manufacturing experience includes actual implementations in factories where he worked at as well as guiding Lean Flow implementations in companies around the world. He has implemented in companies that produce a few as 1 product a day in the semiconductor capital equipment industry to as many as 20 billion coins a year at the US Mint. His experience ranges from high tech, high volume to machine intensive, low volume, make to order industries. Some of the products that he implemented Lean Flow on include: Ultrasound and cat-scan medical equipment, sanitary ware, semiconductor capital equipment, networking equipment, SMT lines, leather, electromechanical equipment, vegetative cuttings, young plants, woody plants, valves, printers and machined components. During the last 6 years Gary has been instrumental in the introduction of Lean Flow techniques into the Green Industry. Gary has traveled extensively in the Far East, Europe and Central and South America teaching and implementing Lean Flow Manufacturing concepts and his bilingual capability gives him the ability to teach and implement in Spanish speaking countries. FlowVision, LLC provides Lean Flow Manufacturing Education and consulting services to a wide range of clients including Timken, Timberland, Alliance Laundry, IMMI, Cisco, GE, Ball FloraPlant, John Deere, Air Products, Tyco International, Jabil, HP, Kerry’s, Ingersoll Rand, Johnson & Johnson, Goodyear, Jabil Circuit, Cisco Systems, Van Belle Nursery, Delray Nursery, Flowerwood, and others.

IDM/White Rust Update10:00-11:00 amLearn more about these two important diseases. Disease occurrence, susceptible hosts, identifica-tion and diagnosis, and factors involved in disease spread will be discussed by Dr. Nora Catlin

Update on Key Diseases for 20143:00-4:00 pmDr. Vijay Choppakatla from BioSafe Systems will offer his insight into sustainable chemistries to provide results leading

to strong, healthy plants in the arena of pest management solutions.

CGGA Annual Meeting & Elections11:00 am - Noon

Connecticut Nurserymen’s Foundation Annual Meeting 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

CNLA Annual MeetingCANP Graduation Ceremony4:00-5:00 pm

JANUARY 14 & 15, 2014 • MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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Woody Plant Health Diagnosis9:00-10:00 amAccurate diagnosis of disease and other plant problems is critical to suc-cessful treatment and prevention. This talk given by Joan Allen will give you tips on figuring out the most likely causes of various symptoms, from the leaves to the roots.

JANUARY 14 & 15, 2014 • MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Advance Registration

RETURN WITH YOUR PAYMENT TO YOUR ASSOCIATION:Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association OR

Connecticut Greenhouse Growers AssociationP.O. Box 414, Botsford CT 06404

800-562-0610 • Fax 203-261-5429E-mail: [email protected]

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Registration • Jan. 14 Registration • Jan. 15Member Nonmbr Student

BoxedLunchJan. 14 Member Nonmbr Student

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Join Your Association Today!CNLA Annual Dues (call for dues rate: 800-562-0610)

CGGA Annual Dues (call for dues rate: 203-261-9067)

$35 $45 $20 $7 $35 $45 $20 $70

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Wednesday, January 15 Seminarios en Español / Program for Spanish-speaking Staff9:00 -10:00 am Practical Tree ID (English & Spanish)La plática será una introducción a la identificatión de árboles y arbustos que son comunes en Connecticut. Aprederá como usar las hojas, yemas y la corteza para distinguir entre varias especies de plantas leñosas. Jeffrey Ward, CAES10:00- 11:00 am Safety and Workman’s Compensation Compliance-Como Cumplir con Leyes de la Seguridad y la Remuneración del Trabajador - Toni Ruiz11:00 am- 12:00 pm Plant Deficiencies - Deficiencias en las Plantas - Joanne Lutz1:00 - 2:00 pm Guided Vendor Tour - Visita guiada delos Vendedores - Darryl Newman2:00 - 3:00 pm How to Scout for and Identify Harmful Insects in the Nursery and Landscape - Como Buscar y Identificar Insectos Dañosos en el Jardin y Vivero - Ana Legrand

Favorite Perennials10:00-11:00 amAnna Ball will discuss her favorite per-ennials and how they are best used in a landscape.

Landscape Efficiency10:00-12:00 pmMr. Hughes will show how innovations of equipment can drastically cut labor costs with installation of plants, borders and mulches when compared to similar crew operations.

Natives and Permaculture11:00-12:00 pmDale Henricks - The increasing popularity of permaculture design brings with it new thinking and energies. These present new opportunities for horticulturists. Many native plant folks are disturbed and threatened by the rapid pace of ecosystem change and the rapid rise of aggressive non native plants. These 2 movements have a huge amount in common and share largely the same goals, let’s learn from each other!

1:00 -2:00 pmIncreasing Your Sales in a Recov-ering EconomyFrustrated by prospects always looking for low price? Concerned about how to differentiate yourself? Rochelle Carrington from Sandler Training will discuss how to sell differently to see more.

The Rest of the Story: Soil , Carbon, Gardening and Agriculture2:00-3:00 pmDale will lead us through some challenging and exciting new science. It turns out that a LOT of the carbon/climate action is in and with the soil and how we farm and garden matter a lot. Learn about the role of mycorrizal fungi, the “liquid carbon pathway”, biochar and the central role of liv-ing systems in our early habitat.

Results of Garden Trail Analysis3:00-4:00 pmIn 2012 CT Nursery and Landscape Association undertook a series of focus groups to ascertain client perceptions of the industry. In Fall 2013 CCSU Marketing students undertook on site surveys to ascer-tain market characteristics of Nursery visitors. This session by Dr. Richard Benfield will present the results of that student survey and indicate the implications of their findings.

PR/Charity to Leverage our Businesses2:00 -3:00 pmNursery/Landscape leaders Barry Burton from BF Burton, Shayne Newman from YardApes and Ryan Van Wilgen from Van Wilgen’s Garden Center share their insight on how they select projects and donations to improve their public image and remain consistent with the company image.

Meet with ourkeynote speakers!

Dinner with Anna Ball January 14, 6:00 pm

$60.00 per person, 15 person maximum

Dinner with Dwight Hughes - January 15, 5-6:00 pm

All welcome, no charge cash bar6:00 pm dinner

$60.00 per person Call or email the CNLA office

to make reservations800-562-0610

[email protected]

UConn Turf Program Update: Research & Programming thatSupports IPM and Sustainable Turf Care Practices3:00-4:00 pmMany landscape professionals in the landscape & horticultural industry are not up-to-date with UConn’s turf research projects. A review of current research which supports Turf IPM and Sustainable Turf research projects. Vickie Wallace will review current research which supports Turf IPM and Sustainable Turf Management.

Plant Deficiencies3:00-4:00 pmJoanne Lutz of Griffin Greenhouses will give an overview of how to dianose different plant deficiences.

Payments to the Connecticut Nursery & Landscape Association or the Connecticut Greenhouse Growers Association may be taxdeductible as business expenses, not as charitable contributions. All fees nonrefundable.

Boxed Luncheseach day for $7 per person. Additional fee, not included in registration

Directions to Manchester Community College, Great Path, Manchester, CT 06040Tel: 860-512-3000 Take Exit 1 off I-384•westbound right at end of ramp•eastbound left at end of ramp•right onto Hillstown Road.•Take first left onto Great Path and proceed to stop sign.•Take a right onto Founders Drive South to Parking Lot C and Lot B. •Enter the tall white tower.