2014 Lake Ontario CCE Summer Fruit Tour
Featuring New Technology in the Orleans/Niagara Co. Fruit Industry
July 24, 2014
Thanks to Sponsors and Donors so far! There is no charge to attend!
Just drive in at registration and follow us!
CBC America; Fine Americas, Inc.; OESCO, Inc.; BASF; Valent USA Corp; LaGasse
Works, Inc.; Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc.; Motts, LLP; Bayer Crop Science; Nichino;
Belle Terre; H. H. Dobbins; Willow Drive Nursery; Helena Chemical Company,
Gowan; and more!
Please pre-register by July 18: Call, or email, or go to our website to
register:
585-798-4265 x 26, or k...@cornell.edu
LOF website: http://lof.cce.cornell.edu/
No rain date, bring raingear, hat, and sunscreen and a seat if you have trouble
standing.
8:00-8:30 AM: Registration at Kast Farms, 43°16'16.06"N, 78° 8'58.37"W, west
side of Lattin Rd. (1.34 miles south of RT 104) , Albion, NY
Stop 1 - 8:30 AM - 9:40 AM: Kast Farms is a large diversified operation of
fruits, vegetables, and grain crops. David Kast, his 2 sons, John and Brett,
and Gary Davy, manager, are actively planting new orchards including NY-1,
NY-2, Gala, Honeycrisp in the tall spindle system. They used GPS planting to
lay out orchards. You will see a 20 acre planting of Gala/M.9377,
NY1/M.9Nic29, NY2/M.9Nic 29, NY2/B.9 planted in 2011 and 2013). They invested
in a deer fence in collaboration with Jim Kirby. Alison DeMarree and Brett
Kast will discuss costs and how it has worked for them.
Weeds and Weed Control in young trees, and new herbicides - D. Breth will
present results from the ARDP funded project to evaluate the critical timing
for weed control in new plantings, and report on weed control results in other
field trials.
Managing Fire blight in Young Trees - Kerik Cox will review the practices
critical to protecting new apple plantings from disaster.
Dr. Terence Robinson (Dept. Horticulture, Cornell U.) will lead the discussion
on management of NY1 and NY2. Mario Miranda Sazo (CCE-LOF) and Gary Davy will
show additional results of de-fruiting techniques (manual, chemical) used for
NY1 this season.
Stop 2 - 10:10-11:00: Pettit Farms (Bates Rd., Medina, NY) have been actively
planting new apples adopting tall spindle. But they have recently encountered
a new challenge that has been detected in many more farms this year. The black
stem borer has established itself as a new pest that ultimately is killing
trees. Debbie Breth and the summer intern, Hannah Rae Warren, will show the
symptoms of infestation, how to find it, and review the biology of the insect.
Debbie and Art Agnello are working together to find control tactics.
At this site, Pettit's have been pushing soil against the rootstock to get the
graft union closer to the soil line with a common custom-built farm disc to
address low vigor in NY1 and Honeycrisp. This deeper planting depth may be a
good strategy, but be careful not to go too far when berming a block for this
purpose. We will discuss the pros and cons of this practice with Dr. Robinson
(Dept. Horticulture, Cornell U.).
Stop 3 - 11:20 - 12:00: Ledge Rock Farms, LLC. (4378 S. Gravel Rd., Medina,
NY), operated by Charlene and Jeffrey Smith, Guinevere and Alan Panek. They
want to show you their new planting of NY 1, NY 2. They have been
incorporating Tall Spindle plantings into this farm. We will visit a nice 4.5
acre block that was fenced in 2013. See the first 100 NY1 and NY2 trees on
M.9Nic29 rootstock planted in 2011 and compare them with NY1 on G.30 and NY2 on
G.41 planted last year. The second planting of NY1 and NY2 incorporated the use
of trickle irrigation, a mounted platform for trellis construction, and the
execution of more timely and precise horticultural practices for maximum and
safe tree growth. Discussion on precision chemical thinning will be led by Dr.
Terence Robinson (Dept. Horticulture, Cornell U.) and Mario Miranda Sazo
(CCE-LOF).
Stop 4 - 12:30 - 2:30 PM: Vizcarra Vineyards At Becker Farms (3760 Quaker Rd.,
Gasport, NY)
Lunch and visit with sponsors and equipment exhibitors.
You will hear about the History of Farm & Market, Winery, and Brewery from
Oscar and Mindy Vizcarra.
And for berry growers, we will have an update and display for learning how to
identify and control Spotted Wing Drosophila in Berry and tree fruit - Juliet
Carroll and Cathy Heidenreich
Stop 5 - 2:45 - 4:15 PM : New Royal Orchards (across from 8012 Rochester Rd.,
Rt 31., Gasport, NY) Alan, Tim, and Dennis are brothers operating this family
farm. At this stop, you will see:
The new SDHI fungicides for scab and mildew, where they fit? - Kerik Cox will
reflect on is trials at Geneva. You can see a demo with 8 rows each of
Merivon, Fontelis, and Luna Tranquility.
Phytotoxicity demonstration with tank mixes at petal fall, 1st cover. - Kerik
Cox & D. Breth set up small plot tests using different combinations of
fungicides, with/without captan, with/without Regulaid, with/without S
