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SUMMARY:Stone Fruit Day - North Central Washington Tree Fruit Days - 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join WSU Extension for the latest research-based information. 3 WSDA pesticide update credits with approval. Co-sponsor Northwest Cherry Growers. \nNorth Central Washington Tree Fruit Days\nJoin us for WSU Tree Fruit Extension Programs in North Central Washington. Co-sponsored by Northwest Cherries\, Pear Bureau Northwest\, NCW Fieldmen’s Association\, and the Okanogan Horticultural Association. These events provide the latest research-based information on horticulture\, pest and disease management. We hope you will join us to network and learn this winter. Apple\, Pear and Cherry Day will be held in Wenatchee\, WA January 20-22\, 2026 with a virtual webinar option. \nFormat\nEvents in 2026 will be held in person with a virtual option through zoom webinars for Apple\, Pear and Stone Fruit Days. \nStone Fruit Day Topics\nSession 1: Insect\, Disease Management \n\nLittle Cherry Disease\nStone Fruit Viruses\nPowdery Mildew\nBacterial Canker\n\nSession 2: Markets and Profitability \n\nEconomic Outlook\nMarket Review\nHorticulture to Maintain Export Quality\nThinning\nand more!\n\nCredits\n3 WSDA pesticide update credits \nRegistration\nRegistration is required for virtual webinar attendance. Walk-ins okay for in person participation. In person event is free (sponsored\, a $150 value). Thank you sponsors: Washington State University\, Northwest Cherries\, Pear Bureau Northwest\, NCW Fieldmen’s Association. Virtual attendee registration fee ($30 for 3-day event) covers additional cost of audio visual technician/live streaming for event. Virtual registration. Registered attendees should receive a confirmation from zoom the next business day. \nLunch\nJoin us for the sponsored networking lunch which provides an opportunity to learn and network with your peers and visiting speakers. Sponsored by GS Long. Sponsored lunch limited to the first 100 attendees per day. Register here. \nAgenda\n\nNCW Stone Fruit Day\nJanuary 21\, 2026 @ 9:00am-3:30 pm\nWenatchee Convention Center 121 N Wenatchee Ave\, Wenatchee WA\nHybrid In-person and Virtual event\nCo-Sponsored by WSU Extension and NW Cherry Growers.\n\nSession 1: Pest\, Weed and Disease Management\n9:00 AM Creating a hostile environment for X-disease vectors to improve management\nTobin Northfield\, WSU Entomology\nWe will discuss ground cover and insecticide management strategies to reduce leafhoppers within orchard blocks and the importance of reducing pathogen prevalence to limit their impacts.\n\n\n9:30 AM Mildew Blow up 2025 – Preventing Problems in 2026 Panel\nPanelists Justin Wiggs\, GS Long; Matt Smith\, NWW\nCultural practices: pruning\, impact of when you start irrigation\, irrigation types. Fall practices. New products. Current product resistance levels and FRACs.\n\n10:00 AM Other Cherry Viruses\nScott Harper\, WSU Plant Pathology\nRasp leaf\, prune dwarf\, cherry leafroll\, cherry mottle leaf.\n\n10:25 AM Break\n\n10:40 AM Bacterial Canker\nGarrett Bishop\, GS Long; Frank Zhao\, WSU Plant Pathology\nWe are still dealing with susceptibility from 2022/23 winter injury. Research updates on field trials to prevent canker in young orchards using lime sulfur\, kasugamycin and other biopesticides. Importance of cutting out infections. Cultural controls including avoiding injury\, cold injury protection\, head cutting timing\, cutting timings.\n\n11:10 AM Certification program work to Keep your Trees Virus Free\nSegun Akinbade\, WSDA \nRecent WSDA certification program activities to keep Washington State Prunus trees virus-free.\n\n\n11:30 Voting\n\n11:45 AM Resources and Updates for Growers\n\n12:00 PM Lunch Sponsored by GS Long first 100 registrants\n\nSession 2: Markets and Profitability\n\n1:15 PM Economic Outlook \nAdam Brohimer\, Luminary Insights\n\n\n1:40 PM 2025 Cherry Market Economics \nWelcome Sauer\, Independent\n\n\n\n2:05 PM How the crop estimate gets made\nDavid Marshall\, AgriManagement\nBehind the scenes of how the estimate gets made and how the industry can help.\n\n\n\n2:25 PM Actions to improve profits survey\nKate Prengaman\, Good Fruit Grower\n\n2:40 PM Crop Load Management Techniques and Tools for Growing Quality Fruit\nMatt Whiting\, WSU Horticulture\nIt is generally understood that there is a negative relationship between fruit quantity and quality\, but what is an ideal crop load\, and how does one accomplish this practically? The tree fruit physiology program in Prosser has investigated fruit quality and crop load management for two decades. This presentation will cover crop load management tools from flower bud induction to pruning and post-bloom fruitlet thinning.\n\n3:25 PM Closing and Pesticide Credits\n\nVendors\nTo join the tradeshow please contact the NCW Fieldmen’s association at ncwfieldman@nwi.net \nSpeakers\nDavid Marshall is an agricultural economist and Treasurer of Agrimanagement\, Inc.\, an independent crop consulting firm based in Zillah\, Washington. Dave has worked in Northwest agriculture for nearly 40 years\, specializing in financial planning\, capital budgeting\, statistics\, information systems\, and data analysis. He has led the Washington State Fruit Commission’s cherry crop estimation program for about 20 years. Agrimanagement provides agronomic\, horticultural\, and pest management consulting to farmers in Washington and Oregon\, as well as contract research services for the agricultural chemical industry. \nMatt Whitting leads an applied\, whole-tree physiology research and extension program in Prosser that addresses key issues limiting orchard sustainability.  His program also focuses on improving production efficiency with mechanization and orchard systems. \nTobin Northfield is an Associate Professor for WSU Department of Entomology. He leads an interdisciplinary task force comprising researchers and representatives from government and industry that works to improve management X-disease and Little cherry disease. He leads a project focusing on X-disease vector management including the use of cultural controls such as Surround and Extenday. \nScott Harper is an Associate Professor for WSU Department of Plant Pathology. His research program focuses on viruses and other systemic pathogens of perennial crops in the Pacific Northwest. \nFrank Zhao is a Professor and Endowed Chair in Bacterial Diseases of Tree Fruits at Washington State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. His research and extension program focuses on bacterial diseases of tree fruits\, including fire blight of apples and pears and bacterial canker disease of cherries. \nGarrett Bishop from GS Long Company works with fieldstaff\, growers and packinghouse operations. He helps investigate and problem solve different tree and fruit disorders in the Tree Fruit Industry. These plant disease diagnostics includes bacterial & fungal cankers\, environment stresses\, nutritional variances\, fruit maturity and viruses with focus on little cherry virus and X-disease phytoplasma. \nSegun Akinbade leads the Fruit Tree Certification Program for the Washington State Department of Agriculture. The program works with certified nurseries within WA to ensure that trees (Malus\, Prunus\, and Pyrus) produced in these nurseries are as clean as the G1 materials sourced from Clean Plant Centers. Nurseries in the program are regularly inspected\, mother trees are constantly tested\, and infected trees\, if found\, are removed immediately. The Fruit Tree Certification Program is at the forefront of mitigating the spread of Little Cherry Disease (LCD) in nursery stocks by conducting an annual survey of mother trees as well as the removal of any infected trees. \nCredits Q&A\nWSDA pesticide update credits. To receive credits for online attendance\, participants must: \n\nRegister each participant including pesticide license information. Make sure registrant name matches name on license.\nAttend the full morning session. The webinar software tracks the number of minutes each attendee has participation. 3 credit sessions require 150 minutes of pesticide related content.\nRespond to poll questions and check-ins during the workshop.\n\nCommon Zoom Problems and Trouble Shooting\n\nCannot enter the webinar. \n\nEarly? If you are early you will receive a message that the meeting has not started yet. Just wait and we will have webinar open soon.\nEnter the passcode: you can attend the meeting without a zoom account\, but you have to enter the passcode to get in. Passcode: 1111.\n\n\n\n\nAll online participants will be required to have a zoom account to sign in due to WSU security policies. Go to https://zoom.us/ to sign up (free) and don’t forget to check your email to confirm. Please make sure to sign in early and check that zoom is working for you and that recent updates have been downloaded.\n\n\nNo sound\n\nCheck your audio settings in zoom. Click on the up arrow close to the microphone icon at the bottom of your screen. Choose audio settings and check that you have the correct speaker and microphone checked.\nCheck your audio in your computer settings.\n\n\n\n\nStill having trouble. Call (509) 293-8792. Note these phone numbers will be forwarded to volunteers during the hour before and after the webinar starts as Tianna will be running the meeting.\n\nCommon questions:\n\nCan I have multiple people watching on one computer? The webinar host can only verify attendance for each logged in participant. If it is not possible for each participant to login separately\, please contact Tianna (509) 713-5346 in advance to designate a host for your site who can verify attendance.
URL:https://treefruit.wsu.edu/event/ncw-stone-fruit-day-2026/
LOCATION:Wenatchee Convention Center\, Wenatchee\, 98801\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="WSU%20Extension%20-%20Tianna%20DuPont":MAILTO:tianna.dupont@wsu.edu
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