2011

AUGUST 2011ADELAIDE SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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NATIONAL CHERRY CONFERENCENATIONAL APPLE & PEAR CONFERENCE

The 2011National Cherry Conference and the National Apple & Pear Conference have been specifi cally tailored to meet the demands of Australian pome fruit and cherry growers. The program is purposely focussed on production issues which have strong ‘take home’ messages for growers. Our aim is to inspire growers with new concepts and methodologies which they can implement on their own properties. With increasing pressures to reduce costs and become globally competitive our aim is to give you the latest information on new and future production techniques. The HortExpo will occur again following on from the successful inaugural HortEXpo in 2009. The event will be a combined fi eld day, workshop, seminar, and trade show that will appeal to all growers and industry stakeholders alike.

Growing Smarter, Growing StrongerThe theme of the this years event is ‘Growing Smarter, Growing Stronger’ and refl ects the necessity for the modern orchardist to be abreast of modern production trends to ensure that their business if economically viable and sustainable.

And Going Greener....In 2011 we bring you a greener conference with some ‘green’ initiatives including a paperless program and a reusable USB card.You will see other initiatives leading up to and during the conference.

Adelaide Convention CentreLocated on the picturesque North Terrace overlooking the Torrens River, the Adelaide Convention Centre provides you with a modern conference facility in a relaxing atmosphere. The Convention Centre is only a 5 minute walk from the Adelaide city centre and an easy stroll to many of the key Adelaide landmarks including the Zoo, Botanical Gardens, Museum and Art Gallery and North Adelaide. There is a range of accommodation within 5-10 minutes walking distance and a list of options is included in the program. Adelaide is a truly wonderful city and offers the opportunity to enjoy fantastic food and wine as well as plenty of activities for the family.

Taste of South Australia Welcome Reception – Tuesday 2nd August Venue: National Wine Centre of Australia, Cnr Hackney Road and Botanic Road, AdelaideTime: 6pm – 7.30pm Dress: Neat CasualCost: Included in Full Registration OR $40 per person (Includes the Wine Discovery Journey)

Jazzing It Up Conference Gala Dinner – Wednesday 3rd August Venue: Hall E & Foyer 1, Adelaide Convention CentreTime: 6.30pm – 11.30pm Dress: Lounge suit/smart casualCost: Included in Full Registration OR $125 per person

INTRODUCTION

CONFERENCE VENUES

Growing towards a sustainable future...

Monday 1st AugustNational Cherry Conference• Cherry Growers Australia AGM, Adelaide Convention Centre• Cherry Technical Presentations, Adelaide Convention Centre • Cherry Levy Payers Meeting, Adelaide Convention Centre

Tuesday 2nd August National Cherry & National Apple & Pear Conference • Cherry Technical Presentations, Adelaide Convention Centre• Taste of South Australia: Welcome Reception for National

Cherry Conference and National Apple & Pear Conference, National Wine Centre of Australia

Wednesday 3rd August HortExpo & Gala Dinner• HortExpo, Adelaide Hills: Joint Expo for National Cherry

Conference and National Apple & Pear Conference• Gala Dinner, Adelaide Convention Centre

Thursday 4th August National Apple & Pear Conference • Apple & Pear Australia AGM & Annual Levy Payers

Meeting, Adelaide Convention Centre• Apple & Pear Technical Presentations, Adelaide

Convention Centre

Friday 5th August National Apple & Pear Conference• Apple & Pear Technical Presentations, Adelaide

Convention Centre

PROGRAM OF EVENTSMONDAY 1ST – FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST

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NATIONAL CHERRY TECHNICAL PROGRAMMONDAY 1ST – WEDNESDAY 3RD AUGUST

DAY ONE: MONDAY 1ST AUGUST

9am-10.30pm Cherry Growers Australia Annual General Meeting

10.30-11am Morning Tea

11am-12.30pm Cherry Growers Australia Annual General Meeting (cont)

12.30-1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm-2.00pm Your Levies at Work – Bob Granger (Industry Advisory Committee, Chair), – Owen Connelly (Industry Services Manager, HAL)

2.00pm-2.30pm Stem Retention in Cherries (This presentation is an outcome from Levy project CY08003)

– Les Mitchell, Agrisearch, Victoria

2.30pm-3.00pm Optimising cherry production research: preliminary results of the TIAR/Washington State University collaboration (This presentation is an outcome from Levy

project CY1002) – Dugald Close, Tasmanian Institute Agricultural Research, Tasmania

3.00pm-3.30pm Afternoon Tea

3.30pm-4.00pm From the Shed Door: Improving Quality and Consistency of Australian Cherries (This presentation is an outcome from Levy project CY10012)

– John Golding, Gosford Primary Industries Institute, NSW

4.00pm-4.30pm Keeping Consumer Appeal: Retail Merchandising of Australian Cherries (This presentation is an outcome from Levy project CY 10507) – Robyn Gibson, Retail Activation

4.30pm-5.00pm Want A Second Bite of the Cherry?: Australian Consumer Trends for Cherry Consumption (This presentation is an outcome from Levy project CY10026)

– Elisa Adams, Sprout

DAY TWO: TUESDAY 2ND AUGUST

9.00am-9.30am Welcome – Michael Keelan, Gardening Broadcaster and Television Host

9.30am-10.30am European Cherry Production and Trends in Orchard Management – Dr Pierre-Eric Lauri

10.30-11am Morning Tea

11.00am-12.00pm Water Stress Assessment for Irrigation Scheduling in Cherry Trees – Dr Amos Naor, Israel

12.00pm-12.30pm Observations from the International Cherry Symposium– Earnscy Weaver, New Zealand

12.30-1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm-2.15pm Managing Cracking in Cherry Cherries – Dr Larry Schrader , Washington State University

2.15pm-3.00pm Stopping the Rot: Controlling Cherry Rots in the Orchard – Wayne Boucher, Tasmania

3.00pm-3.30pm Afternoon Tea

3.30pm-4.15pm Getting to the Pointy End: The Eco Banana Story – Dianne Sciacci, Pacifi c Coast Eco Bananas

4.15pm-5.00pm How Sustainable is the Future of the Australian Cherry Industry? – Facilitated Discussion with a panel selected growers, exporters and industry representatives

The 2nd HortExpo will be the place to be on Wednesday

3rd August and will feature over 30 trade exhibitors as

well as technical presentations and in-fi eld demonstrations.

There will be working farm equipment, packing shed

machinery, working demonstrations of a wide host of

products and services as well as orchard tours, pruning

demonstrations and other workshops.

Venue: ‘Plummers’ Packhouse, Plummers Road, Lenswood

Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm

HORTEXPOWEDNESDAY 3RD AUGUST

PRESENTATIONS• Spray Drift: New Research into Reducing and

Managing Spray Drift

Peter Triloff, Germany

• Increasing the Precocity of Young Pears

Stuart Tustin, Plant & Food New Zealand

• Cherries: What underpins size and how do we manage it

Penny Measham, TIAR

• Water Use in Netted Apple Orchards

Dr Ian Goodwin, DPI, Victoria

• Review and Update of the Australian Cherry

Breeding Program

Darren Graetz, SARDI

• An Overview of the European Pome Industry

Dr Pierre-Eric Lauri, France

• Understanding and Managing the Risks and

Opportunities from Climate Change for the

Australian Cherry Industry

Peter Hayman, SARDI

• Regulated Defi cit Irrigation of deciduous Orchards

at Different Phenological Stages

Dr Amos Naor, Israel

• Pomegranates & Figs: The Potential for ‘new’ crops

Hartley Lewis, Lewis Horticulture

• Comparison of late season cherry varieties for their

export suitability

Mike Rettke, SARDI

• Economics of High Density Apple Orchards in Australia

Paul James, South Australia

Will also include presentations from Sponsors including:

Visy Glama, Colin Campbell Chemicals, Sumitomo,

edp Australia, Croplands/Nufarm

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1.30pm-2.30pm The combined effect of irrigation and crop load on crop yield, fruit size, tree water consumption and thresholds of tree water status for irrigation scheduling – Dr Amos Naor (Israel)

2.30pm-3.00pm Water & Carbon in Orchards: Managing Two Key Resources for Multiple Benefi ts – Dr Brent Clothier, NZ Plant & Food

3.00-3.30pm Afternoon Tea

3.30pm-4.30pm Knowledge of architecture to improve tree training in the orchard and how tree training may modulate pest and disease dissemination – Dr Pierre-Eric Lauri (France)

4.30pm-5.00pm Apple Tree Performance Under Netting – Dr Simon Middleton, Agri-Science Queensland, DEEDI

NATIONAL APPLE & PEAR TECHNICAL PROGRAM THURSDAY 4TH & FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST

DAY 1: THURSDAY 4TH AUGUST

7.30am Breakfast Welcome – Bob Granger, IAC Chair

7.45am Prevar: What’s New, What’s In Store and What the Future Brings – Brett Ennis, Prevar

8.30am R & D Update: What’s Happening Now – Brad Mills, HAL

8.45am The future in tree structure – Stuart Tustin, PIPS

9.15am Marketing Update: The plan Ahead – Luke Westley, HAL

9.30am Aussie Apples: Why Brand Our Apples? – Ashley Farr, SMART

10.00-10.30am Morning Tea

10.30am Your Future – The Vision – Jon Durham, APAL

10.50am Panel – Grower Questions and Feedback

11.30am-12.30pm APAL Annual General Meeting

12.30-1.30 Lunch break

DAY 2: FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST

8.30am-9.30am Treating Sunburn and other Stress Disorders of Pome Fruit– Dr Larry Schrader (Washington State University, USA)

9.30am-10.30am New Research on Apple Scab and What It Means for Pome Fruit Growers – Peter Triloff (Germany)

10.30-11.00am Morning Tea

11.00am-11.45am The Eco-Banana Story – Dianna Sciacca , Pacifi c Coast Banana’s

11.45am-12.30pm Global Perspective on Pome Fruit Marketing – John Hey, Asiafruit Magazine

Dr. Larry Schrader (USA)Dr. Larry Schrader recently retired from Washington State University. He has been involved in agricultural research for 44 years since completing his Ph.D. at The University of Illinois in 1967. During the last 16 years, Schrader and his research group became internationally known for research on several apple fruit skin disorders, including sunburn. To help apple growers reduce losses due to sunburn damage, Schrader invented the fi rst sunscreen for apples to help growers protect their fruit. Schrader and his research group also became widely known for research on sweet cherry cracking induced by rain. Two causes of cracking were identifi ed, and environmental factors that increase cracking were identifi ed.

Dr Pierre-Eric Lauri (France)Pierre-Eric Lauri is currently a Senior Researcher at INRA (National Institute for Agronomic Research) in France. After a Bachelor Science in 1982 in Tropical biology at Montpellier, France he spent 1 ½ years for national civil service as junior scientist at ORSTOM (now IRD) in Nouméa, New Caledonia. He then spent 3years as a teacher in Junior high School in New Caledonia. Pierre- Eric completed a PhD thesis on tree architecture in relation to fl owering with fi eld works in New Caledonia and French Guyana in 1988. He was recruited at INRA in 1989, as researcher on a program on fruit tree architecture and genetic variability, and improvement of tree training. Research implemented on temperate and tropical species: Cherry, Peach, Fig, Pear, Olive, with a main focus on Apple and Mango.

Dr. Amos Naor (Israel)Amos Naor received his three degrees in Soil Science at the Faculty of Agriculture, Rehovot in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He

works for the Golan Research Institute of the University of Haifa, Israel since 1985. Amos Naor works also for the Northern R&D in Israel since 1995 and serves as the scientifi c director of the deciduous orchards and wine grapes division. The general fi elds of interest are irrigation scheduling of fruit trees and applied environmental physiology. In the past two decades Amos Naor works on two major topics: water stress indicators for irrigation scheduling, mainly focusing on midday stem water potential and optimising irrigation of fruit trees at different phenological stages.

Peter Triloff (Germany)Peter Triloff has a long history within horticulture starting back in 1979. He has completed studies in horticulture and is due to complete his PhD in 2011. Much of his work has focused on areas of crop protection including work on diseases such as apple scab and in recent years on chemical application techniques. The focus of his PhD was “Small Droplet Spray Application of Pesticides in Top-Fruit 0 Minimization of Spray Drift by Optimized Air Flow and Canopy Related Dosage. Peter Triloff is employed by Marktgemeinschaft Bodenseeobst as a consultant in Germany.

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER PROFILES

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North Terrace 2 One Bedroom Deluxe Apartments

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Rendezvous Hotel Adelaide

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Franklin Central Apartments

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