Tree Fruit: Meeting Information
124th Annual Meeting: February 13, 2020
8:30 Registration
9:00 News from the UVM Apple
Program
Dr. Terence Bradshaw, UVM Tree
Fruit and Viticulture Specialist
9:15 Developing an Integrated
Pest & Pollinator Management Plan for New England Apple Production
Dr. Anna
Wallingford, University of New Hampshire Extension State Specialist,
Entomology & IPM
10:00 News from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture,
Food, and Markets
Alyson Eastman, Deputy Secretary
of Agriculture
10:15 FSMA Produce Safety Rule & Vermont
Produce Program
Tucker Diego, Vermont Agency of
Agriculture, Food & Markets
10:45 What's Next for New England Apples?
Russell Powell, New England Apple
Association
11:05 Grower Panel: Trends in Apple Cultivars
Dr. Terence Bradshaw, moderator
Russell Powell, New England Apple
Association
11:45 VTFGA Business Meeting
Eric Boire, VTFGA President
12:00 LUNCH
1:00 Decision Support Systems
should drive IPM in your orchard
Elizabeth Garofalo, UMASS
Cooperative Extension Fruit Specialist
1:45 Old and new insect pests
for 2020 tree fruit management
Dr. Anna
Wallingford
2:30 Future
Direction of the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association
Rose Wilson, Rose Wilson
Consulting LLC
3:00
Tips
and Techniques for Marketing Your Crop
Rose Wilson, Rose Wilson
Consulting LLC
4:00 Adjourn
Scouting Workshop (Apple): May 16, 2019. UVM HREC, Burlington VT
Vermont Tree Fruit Growers' Association
2019 Annual Meeting: February 14, 2019. Middlebury, VT American Legion
2018 Annual Meeting: February 15, 2018. Middlebury, VT American Legion
- 2018
Brochure
- Recap of the 2017 Season
-Terence Bradshaw, University of Vermont
- Managing Native
Bees for Tree Fruit Pollination -John Hayden, The Farm Between
- Trunk Problems in
Vermont Apple Orchards -Terence Bradshaw, University of Vermont
- Produce Safety & FSMA
in Vermont -Dominique Giroux, VT Agency of Agriculture, Food, and
Markets
- UVM-CPS Orchard
Monitoring Project -Sarah Kingsley-Richards, University of Vermont
- Implementing an
Orchard Monitoring Program -Jessica Foster, University of Vermont
- Managed Native Bees for
Pollination -Leif Richardson, Stone Environmental
- Constraints and Opportunities
in Growing Cider Apples in Vermont -Terence Bradshaw, University of
Vermont
2017 Annual Meeting
- 2017
Brochure
- 2016 Apple Season Recap
-Terry Bradshaw, University of Vermont
- Monitoring, Modeling
and Managing the Lepidopteran Complex in Apple -Peter Jentsch, Cornell
University
- Fire Blight 101 -Srdjan
Acimovic, Cornell University
- Updates to the Federal
Worker Protection Standard -Annie Macmillan, Vermont Agency of
Agriculture, Food & Markets
- Insect Pest Management Roundup
2016 -Peter Jentsch, Cornell University
- Modern Apple Scab
Management -Srdjan Acimovic, Cornell University
- Orchard Irrigation -Trevor
Hardy, Brookdale Fruit Farm
- Trust,
Communication and Farm Freedom to Operate-Kevin Folta, University of
Florida
2016 Annual Meeting
- Apple IPM 101-Terry Bradshaw,
University of Vermont
- handout: IPMQuickGuidetoMonitoring2016
-Terry Bradshaw, University of Vermont
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug:
Management Strategies for a New New England Pest -Mary
Concklin, University of Connecticut
- Drainage and
Water Management on VT Farms -Joshua Faulkner, UVM Extension Center
for Sustainable Agriculture
- Revisions to EPA's
Agricultural Worker Protection Standard -Dominique Golliot, Vermont
Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets
- FSMA Produce Safety
Rule, RAPs & Your Farm -Kristina Sweet, Vermont Agency of
Agriculture, Food,, & Markets
- Nutrition
Management for Tree Fruit -Mary Concklin, University of Connecticut
- Biological Management of
Apple Replant Disease -Terry Bradshaw, University of Vermont
- 2016 Brochure
- VTFGA2016MembershipAndRegistrationForm
2015 Annual Meeting