November 2023 Future Orchards Spring Series - Orange

Apple and Pear Australia Limited

Join us this November for the APAL Future Orchards Spring Orchard Walks.

NSW DPI Orange Head Office Conference Room

Join us at APAL’s November 2023 Future Orchards® Spring Series from 13 – 17 November to discuss tree nutrition, growth regulator usage and the season ahead.This Spring Series Orchard Walk will be taking place in Orange on Tuesday, 14th November.P﻿lease note: After presentations at NSW DPI Orange Head Office Conference Room, the Orchard walk will be hosted at Stoneleigh Orchard, Pearce Lane via Ophir Road from 2.00pm.Suzanne Bishop, Research &amp; Development Manager at Allan Brothers Inc. (Washington, USA). Suzanne will take you step by step through her discoveries of Crop Load Management in apples from excluding plant growth regulators to more strategic applications, and how they fit in with new orchard designs. Craig Hornblow, Horticultural Consultant at AgFirst (Nelson, NZ). Craig will discuss the benefits of monitoring and managing nutrition in the orchard as well as how growers should consider reacting to nutrition tests based on good understanding of nutrition targets. Costs, benefits and logistics of the process will be covered and what it looks like in practise will be discussed in the field.""Ian Cover, Industry Services Manager – Biosecurity &amp; Extension at APALWhat you will learn:<ul><li>Practical strategies for ensuring optimal nutrition for your trees to meet demand and optimise quality</li><li>In-field management of tree vigor and crop load to improve block profitability</li><li>Discussions about growth regulator usage, tree nutrition and pest/disease considerations</li></ul>A﻿bout Suzanne BishopSuzanne Bishop manages the Research and Development Department at Allan Bros., which is based in the Yakima Valley of Washington State (USA). Allan Bros., is a grower and packer operation with just over 500 hectares of apples and 200 hectares of cherries. Over the last 7 years at Allan Bros, she’s overseen a broad variety of projects including soil and plant nutrition, irrigation management, remote sensing, new planting systems, optimizing tree vigor and crop loads, postharvest decay resistance management, improving fruit handling procedures in storage and on across packing lines. A﻿bout Craig HornblowC﻿raig has been in the Horticultural industry since 1985 and with AgFirst since 1995. Specialising in apples, Criag has travelled extensively throughout Europe and the USA studying Dwarf tree management and chemical thinning. Craig is also strongly committed to grower education and regularly leads field days in New Zealand as well as overseas, bringing to his audience the latest technical advances and good tree management techniques. For further information, please contact communications@apal.org.au

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