Where: Starting at Salters Orchard, R&R Smith, 451 North Huon Rd, Ranelagh, for an orchard walk & discussion through the IPM conservation biological control research site.
Continuing at Hansen Orchards, Grove, for an orchard walk & discussion through the renovated planar canopy training systems research site.
To conclude the day there will be an in-room crop load management presentations and panel.
PIPS researchers, together with local growers, will update on R&D developments and the emerging production, economic and sustainability implications for the Tasmanian apple industry:
* 2-D orchard renovation trials
* Thinning decisions and chemical strategies
* Crop predictions and management decisions using remote sensing
* Labour efficiency technologies
* Integrated pest management: conservation biological control and parasitoid strategies for key pests.
* Thinning R&D panel: grower, researcher & commercial discussion on strategy developments for local conditions are we getting the results?
Lunch is included.
Facilitated by Nigel Swarts - come with the questions that matter to your business.
For any questions, please contact Marguerite White - TIA Horticulture Industry Lead - Phone/ text: 0447 500 415 or email
This event is supported by the partnerships of the PIPS 4 Profit program and Fruit Growers Tasmania.
