Events
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Sep 3
2025 Michigan Specialty Cut Flower Farm Tour
September 3, 2025 10:00AM – 12:00PM Three Acre Farm, 9973 Homerich Ave. SW, Byron Center, MI 49315
This tour is perfect for commercial cut flower growers looking to expand their knowledge and network with others in the industry.
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Sep 5
2025 Michigan Specialty Cut Flower Farm Tour
September 5, 2025 10:00AM – 12:00PM 50330 Mill Street, Three Rivers, MI 49093
This tour is perfect for commercial cut flower growers looking to expand their knowledge and network with others in the industry.
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Sep 11
Immigration Essentials for Farm Employers Webinar - Session 1: ICE Insight
September 11, 2025 10:00AM – 11:00AM Zoom webinar
Learn proactive strategies to reduce the risk of immigration audits or raids and how to respond if officials arrive.
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Sep 17
What’s That? Major Pest Problems in Nursery Crops Webinar Series
September 17, 2025 12:30PM – 2:00PM Online
This webinar will discuss the biology, behavior, and damage associated with insect and mite pests, such as aphids, thrips, spider mites, flea beetles, spongy moth, bronze birch borer, and pear leaf blister mite.
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Sep 18
Immigration Essentials for Farm Employers Webinar - Session 2: I-9 Compliance
September 18, 2025 10:00AM – 11:00AM Zoom webinar
Learn practical tools to conduct internal I-9 audits, correct common errors, and build a documentation system to remain in compliance and protect your operation.
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Sep 20
2025 Michigan Specialty Cut Flower Farm Tour
September 20, 2025 2:00PM – 4:00PM 2745 S Sashabaw Rd, Ortonville, MI 48462
This tour is perfect for commercial cut flower growers looking to expand their knowledge and network with others in the industry.
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Sep 24
What’s That? Major Pest Problems in Nursery Crops Webinar Series
September 24, 2025 12:30PM – 2:00PM Online
This webinar will highlight: rust pathogens, apple scab, shothole leaf spot, fire blight, septoria leaf spot, adelgids, white pine weevil, and needlecast diseases.
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Sep 25
Immigration Essentials for Farm Employers Webinar - Session 3: Immigration Policy
September 25, 2025 10:00AM – 11:00AM Zoom webinar
Learn about current immigration enforcement trends and future reform proposals that could impact agricultural employers and their workforce.
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Oct 1
What’s That? Major Pest Problems in Nursery Crops Webinar Series
October 1, 2025 12:30PM – 2:00PM Online
This webinar will cover several diseases commonly diagnosed at MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics. Topics will include powdery and downy mildews, rusts, leaf spots, viruses, and several diseases that commonly affect boxwood.
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Dec 9
Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO
December 9, 2025 – December 11, 2025 DeVos Place, 303 Monroe Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
The Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable & Farm Market EXPO and Michigan Greenhouse Growers EXPO (GLEXPO) is an annual event that draws thousands of farmers from Michigan and beyond to Grand Rapids, Michigan each December.