Welcome to the Tolland County Extension Center, housed at the Tolland Agricultural Center in Vernon along with the Connecticut Small Business Development Center and the North Central Conservation District. The grounds of this center have four other buildings/barns which are used for agricultural events such as the 4-H Fair, 4-H Club Meetings, Horse Shows, and the Connecticut Sheep Breeders Association Sheep Show. 

Center Programs:

4-H Youth Development

County-wide 4-H youth development programs in:

Animal sciences, citizenship, communications & expressive arts, consumer & family sciences, environmental sciences, healthy lifestyles, leadership, plant science & science technology

• Volunteer Leader Training
• Club Enrollment
• State-wide 4-H Dairy Programs

• Hartford, Litchfield, Tolland – Public Speaking Programs
• Tolland/Hartford County Horse programs

Statewide and Regional Programming in Sustainable Agriculture/Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for commercial vegetable growers:

• New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference & Trade Show. Radisson Hotel, Manchester, NH.  For dates, registration and additional information see: www.nevfc.org
• 2006-2007 New England Vegetable Management Guide. Updated every two years.  Available in hard copy ($15) or on-line at www.nevegetable.org
• Crop Talk: Commercial Vegetable and Fruit Crops Newsletter. UConn Cooperative Extension System & Department of Plant Science Publication.  Available in hard copy or on-line at www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/
• Annual Connecticut Vegetable & Small Fruit Growers’ Conference. Late January, Tolland County Ag Center 
• Annual Connecticut Vegetable Growers’ Twilight Meeting Series.  Farm tour of progressive agricultural enterprise. 6:00-8:30 pm in June, July or August  
• Vegetable Crops IPM Recorded Telephone and Web Site Pest Message. Weekly pest data and crop management recommendations, June-September. (860) 870-6954, www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/
• UConn IPM Web Site/Vegetable Crops Section. UConn Department of Plant Science & Cooperative Extension System fact sheets. www.hort.uconn.edu/ipm/
• Judge for All-America Selection Vegetable Trial Gardens. Department of Plant Science Research & Teaching Facility (Research Farm), Storrs, CT.
• Vegetable Crops IPM Field Training Program/USDA NRCS EQIP IPM Program. Crop Consultant/Technical Service Provider. Provide weekly on-farm IPM training for specific commodities or full farm. May-October.  Statewide program delivery.
• Commodity-specific IPM Manuals, Journal and Proceedings Articles. UConn IPM  manuals available for sweet corn, peppers, and cole crops.
• Applied Research Program. Conduct field trials on pest monitoring systems, action thresholds, resistant varieties, mechanical controls, trap crops, repellents, microbial and other selective pesticides.

Statewide Programming in Agricultural Financial Planning and Risk Management

• Individual one-on-one consultation sessions for agricultural producers with Joseph Bonelli set up by appointment on financial planning and related topics.
• One-on-one consultation sessions for agricultural producers with a business professional organized by the Risk Management Team to be made available for signup during last quarter 2006 and first quarter 2007. Topics for discussion will be on a variety of topics.
• State wide conference on marketing scheduled for March 2007 organized by the Risk Management Team.
• State wide conference on pesticide use and safety, applicator recertification and transitioning to organic organized by the Risk Management Team.

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