Blueberry Field Day

 AGENDA

• 1:00 pm Meet at the organic blueberry research plot (SW section of farm): welcome/introductions - Dr. Bernadine Strik, Professor, Horticulture & NWREC

• 1:15 pm Weed and fertility management in an organic blueberry field - Bernadine Strik, Research Leader

• 1:15pm : An overview of the trial – what have we learned & impacts on organic & conventional systems – Bernadine Strik

• 1:35 pm : Impacts of organic production systems on root growth – Dr. Luis Valenzuela, Dept. Hort., OSU; USDA-ARS

• 1:50 pm: Cultivar adaptation to organic production systems – an update on yield over 6 years – Bernadine Strik

• 2:10pm : Falconry – a demonstration – Kort Clayton, Airstrike Bird Control, LLC., Portland, OR

• 2:30pm: Bird Scare Alarms – Terry Denzer, Bird Gard, LLC

• 2:55 pm Rootstock evaluation and field performance of “blueberry trees” - Dr. Wei Q. Yang, NWREC

• 3:15 pm Walk/drive to cultivar evaluation block

• 4:00 pm Registration and MRL update in blueberries – Joe DeFrancesco, NWREC, Horticulture, OSU

• 4:15 pm Mummy berry – ideas for control from a better understanding of the disease – Jade Florence and Dr. Jay Pscheidt (Ph.D. graduate student and Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology, OSU)

• 4:30 pm Options for weed management in conventional blueberry fields – Dr. Ed Peachey, Dept. Horticulture

• 4:45 pm Blueberry Shock Virus & others – an update – Dr. Bob Martin, USDA-ARS, HCRU, Corvallis

• 5:00 pm What blueberry cultivars/selections look good? Walk through USDA-ARS/OSU cooperative breeding test block – Dr. Chad Finn, USDA-ARS geneticist, HCRU, Corvallis