PEAR
ORCHARD SYSTEMS FIELD MEETING
An upcoming Meeting for the
California Pear Industry is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22, 10:00 a.m. to Noon at the Shadowbrook Farms, 13850 Old River Road,
Hopland
Meeting speakers include: Rachel Elkins, Pomology Farm Advisor, U.C. Cooperative Extension Kurt Ashurst, host grower; Bruce
Lampinen, Extension
Orchard Management Specialist and Ted
DeJong, Professor/
CE Pomologist, UC Davis; Todd Einhorn, Assistant Professor, Oregon
State University Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center
(MCAREC), Hood River; Stefano
Musacchi, Associate
Professor, Washington State University - Tree Fruit Research and Extension
Center (TFREC), Wenatchee
AGENDA
• Welcome and overview of California collaborative pear
systems trials
• 2013 NC-140 ‘Bartlett’ Pear Systems Trial
Planted May 1-2, 2013; trees
from Willow Drive Nursery, Ephrata, WA
Training systems: “V”, tall spindle,
bi-axis, 2-leader, completely unpruned (unreplicated) In-row spacing: 3’, 4.5’,
6’. Between row spacing: 12’
Rootstocks: OHxF 69, OHxF 87, Pyro 2-33
• Fire blight Resistant Pear Selections
2013 selections from Dr.
Richard Bell, USDA-ARS, Kearneysville, WVA Planted May 16, 2013 and headed to
30”; all on OHxF 87.Other locations: Sacramento Delta (Chuck Ingels), Hood
River (Todd Einhorn);
Wenatchee (Kate Evans);
Michigan (2 sites) (Bill Shane); West Virginia (R. Bell)
The Organizers wish to thank the following for helping
with this meeting.
Kurt
Ashurst and crew, Shadowbrook Farms, A&P Ag Structures, Visalia, Willow
Drive Nursery, Ephrata, WA, Adams County Nursery
and
California Pear
Advisory Board for partial funding.
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