Whereas nonetheless over 2 months away…the CGC is quick approaching! Taking place October 9 & 10 in Niagara Falls, I’m excited to announce the speaker program for the 2024 CGC has been launched! Maintain studying to search out out concerning the Bus Tour, Poster Competitors and extra.
Canada’s foremost occasion for business greenhouse flower, vegetable, berry, and nursery growers, the Canadian Greenhouse Convention is the final word connection level for growers, suppliers and analysis companions!
This 12 months’s theme is Sensible Rising and the lately launched speaker program will be discovered right here. Throughout two days there are 17 completely different classes, masking matters together with manufacturing, pest administration, automation, revolutionary know-how and extra. Learn via this system to earmark classes you’re thinking about!
Save the date as convention registration opens August 1st. Learn extra about registration charges right here.
Interested by taking part in additional methods at CGC? Be a part of our Bus Tour, taking place October eighth. The tour shall be heading to Leamington, in southwestern Ontario, to go to a wide range of greenhouses within the space and cease at Colasanti’s Tropical Gardens for lunch. contributors have the choice of buying tickets for a bus leaving from Niagara on October seventh, with the price of a lodge room (in Windsor) included within the ticket. This bus will then be a part of the opposite choice, a bus originating within the Leamington space on October eighth for the beginning of the tour. Go to the CGC Bus Tour web page to study ticket prices and schedule particulars as they’re launched.
Interested by having your analysis showcased on the CGC? Enter the Poster Competitors! The purpose with this poster session is to focus on analysis on greenhouse floriculture, fruit, greens, and various crops in Canada, permitting growers and members of the ag-industry to see the superb work that researchers do in help of the various commodities they develop. This poster session will embody common posters and pupil competitors posters.
Utility due date: Sunday, September 8, 2024
Poster PDF due date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Please use the Poster Utility Type to enter the common and pupil competitors poster classes and return it to Denise Beaton (denise.beaton@ontario.ca) or Cara McCreary (cara.mccreary@ontario.ca).
- Posters must be roughly 120 cm x 90 cm (48” x 36”) in both portrait or panorama orientation. Each conventional analysis posters and infographics that may convey acceptable particulars are inspired.
- The pupil poster competitors is directed at college students presently enrolled at a school or college who’re conducting analysis on greenhouse crops or associated manufacturing/advertising and marketing practices related to Canada. The prizes are as follows:
- 1st Prize – $750
- 2nd Prize – $500
- third Prize – $350
- 4th Prize – $150
The scholar competitors shall be restricted to the primary 20 college students. These 20 pupil opponents will obtain free registration for each convention days. Any extra posters will be included within the common session. Yow will discover the total particulars: competitors guidelines, Poster Utility Type, and examine a few of the 2023 posters right here.
Enthusiastic about this 12 months’s Canadian Greenhouse Convention and all it has to supply! Hope to see you all on October 9 & 10.