Join us at APAL’s November 2023 Future Orchards® Spring Series
This Spring Series Orchard Walk will be taking place in Nannup on Monday, 13th November.
Garrett Bishop, Quality Services Lead, G.S. Long (Washington USA) will discuss tools and tactics for apple diagnostics including field identification of diseases and disorders, mapping and tracking symptoms and sample collection for lab analysis.
Ross Wilson, Horticultural Consultant at AgFirst (Hawke's Bay, NZ)
Nic Finger, Industry Services Manager – Grower Development and Trials at APAL
What you will learn:
Practical strategies for ensuring optimal nutrition for your trees to meet demand and optimise quality
In-field management of tree vigor and crop load to improve block profitability
Discussions about growth regulator usage, tree nutrition and pest/disease considerations
About Garrett Bishop
Garrett Bishop leads Quality Services for GS Long Company (GSL), an agricultural chemical and fertilizer retailer. He works with fieldstaff, growers and packinghouse operations to help investigate different tree fruit disorders in Oregon and Washington states (USA). These include environmental stresses, nutritional variances, fruit maturity and pathogens in Pome and Stone Fruit crops with a focus on Little Cherry Virus and X-disease Phytoplasma. The role is unique as he is the technical link between University Research studies and GSL Fieldstaff and growers. This equips growers with someone who can keep eyes on a problem, participate in troubleshooting and push for practical short and long term solutions.
About Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson is a founding member of AgFirst in New Zealand and brings over 30 years’ horticulture experience to the business. A grower in his own right, Ross has frontline experience with the issues orchardists face, and offers his grower clients a complete consultancy service.
Grower education is a passion, and Ross is a key driver of APAL’s Future Orchards® program, he regularly leads field days for various projects, ensuring the latest technical advances and good tree management techniques make it to the hands of growers.
For further information and to RSVP please email Susan.Murphy-White@dpird.wa.gov.au