Wisconsin Fresh Fruit &
 Vegetable Conference

Apple Program Schedule

Times/Topics subject to change

Sunday, January 3

 
2:45 - 3:45pm "Annual Meeting of Wisconsin Apple Growers Association"

This is your chance to help determine the direction of Growers Association.  Vote for the new Board of Directors and make your feelings known.

3:45 - 5:00pm "Apple Grower Issues for 2010"

A panel of apple growers will discuss issues that will affect the industry in 2010.  Come, and bring your questions.

   
Monday, January 4  
8:30 - 9:15am "Fire Blight Management in 2010" - George Sundin, Michigan State University

 

9:15 - 10:00am "Promising New Apple Cultivars for Direct Marketing" Duane Greene, University of Massachusetts

 

11:15 - Noon "PRiME - A New online Pesticide Evaluation Tool" - Tom Green, IPM Institute

 

3:30-4:15pm "Bits & Pieces from the Bug Guy" - Dan Mahr, UW Entomology

 

4:15-5:00pm "Update on the EcoApple Project"  - CIAS Staff
   
Tuesday, January 5  
8:00-8:45am "Chemicals & Strategies to Thin Apple & Enhance Return Bloom" - Duane Greene, Univ of Mass

 

8:45-9:30am "Resistance to Strobilurin Fungicides in the Apple Scab Pathogen Venturia inaequalis in Michigan" - George Sundin, Michigan State Univ.
11:00-11:45am "Fruit Tree Mineral Nutrition:Food for Thought" - Rebecca Harbut, UW Horticulture

New Extension Fruit Specialist at UW Madison

11:45 - 12:30pm "Organic Fruit Tree Research in Wisconsin" Matt Stasiak, Peninsular Research Station
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