Summerfruit NZ is hosting a pre-season SummerGreen meeting in Hawke’s Bay in October.
Discussion will focus on advances made on several of the research and development activities that Summerfruit NZ has been progressing over the last 18 months, including an update on A Lighter Touch projects with Summerfruit NZ.
Topics being covered include:
- Update on the A Lighter Touch programme: understory project and crop protection trial work
- Biosecurity update by Anna Broxham, Summerfruit NZ Biosecurity Manager
- Promising results from the biofungicide screening trials against Monilinia, Botrytis and Pseudomonas (Plant & Food Research)
- Outcomes from the Harvista trial work (AgroFresh)
- Summerfruit NZ 2023-24 market price summary from Richard Mills, Summerfruit NZ Technical Advisor
- Climate change mitigation and on-orchard carbon foot-printing related to summerfruit production systems: a summary of findings by Brent Clothier, Plant & Food Research.
Venue details are:
SummerGreen Hawke’s Bay
When: Wednesday 16 October,
Timing: 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Where: No.5 Café and Larder, 248 State Highway 51, Mangateretere
