WA Spring Future Orchard Walk

9am Monday 14th November 2022

WA Future Orchard Walk - Donnybrook

Charlie Keall’s Orchard

823 Donnybrook-Boyup Brook Road, Queenwood WA 6239

Please note: The Orchard Walk will commence at 9.00am at Keall’s Orchard and will be followed by a BBQ lunch. Attendees are invited to make their own way to Keall’s Orchard for the Orchard Walk.

For further information or RSVP, please email or SMS Susie.

 Do you have a harvest target? What’s your plan to achieve it?

Join us at APAL’s Future Orchards® Spring Orchard Walk; 9am Monday 14th November to find out what you can do now to get the most out of your trees for harvest.

 The spring Orchard Walk will feature presentations from Jorika Cronje, Horticulturalist and Soil Scientist from South Africa, and Nic Finger from Fruit Help/ AgFirst.  Followed by a in-orchard discussion in Charlie Keall’s Pear Orchard.

 Jorika Cronje, Horticulturalist and Soil Scientist from South Africa will share the latest research outcomes and international practices in crop nutrition and attaining optimum fruit quality.

Nic Finger, director of Fruit Help and a member of the AgFirst team for Future Orchards, will lead discussions around how to use your block data to optimise returns at harvest. This includes how to identify, set and achieve crop targets, management actions to put in place, how to measure if you are on track and options if you are not on track.

What you will learn and discuss:

  • Optimising crop nutrition – based on updates from international research

  • Identifying and setting crop targets (e.g. driving fruit size, high colour)

  • Specific management actions to achieve targets (e.g. hand thinning priorities, budgeting for harvest labour)

 See you Monday!

Nardia Stacy