Stone Fruit Day – North Central Washington Tree Fruit Days
January 22, 2025 @ 8:45 am - 3:30 pm
Join WSU Extension for the latest research-based information. 3 WSDA pesticide update credits with approval. Co-sponsor Northwest Cherry Growers.
North Central Washington Tree Fruit Days
Join 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 21-23, 2025 with a virtual webinar option.
Format
Events in 2025 will be held in person with a virtual option through zoom webinars for Apple, Pear and Stone Fruit Days.
Stone Fruit Day Topics
Session 1: Insect, Disease Management
- What fungal cankers are causing dieback?
- Preventing bacterial canker in new plantings
- IPM practices to improve bee health
- Managing X-disease
- Cherry Variety Research Update
Session 2: Back to Basics: Optimizing light, water, nutrients, cropload and minimizing environmental stress
- Grower panel
- Optimizing tree fruit nutrition
- Climate and weather impacts on fruit quality and maturity indices
- Varying cold hardiness of sweet cherry cultivars
- and more!
Credits
3 pesticide update credits WSDA with approval
Registration
Registration 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 here. Registered attendees should receive a confirmation from zoom the next business day.
Lunch
Join 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.
Agenda
Bumble bees can help improve pollination in cold, rainy conditions when honeybees are less efficient. Luppino will discuss mites which may help or hinder bumble bee populations, and strategies to conserve bumble bees like increasing nesting sites and wildflower plantings, while minimizing parasites.
Vendors
To join the tradeshow please contact the NCW Fieldmen’s association at ncwfieldman@nwi.net
Speakers
Adrian Marshall is a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the USDA-ARS TTFVRU in Wapato, WA. He began working on X-disease vector management in 2020 and has focused on cultural controls, leafhopper vector identification, and the pathogen transmission cycle within the leafhoppers.
Bernardita Sallato is a Tree Fruit Extension Specialist and Assistant professor for Washington State University. Her program provides leadership in applied research, extension, and outreach for the PNW tree fruit industry. Her goal is improving orchard efficiency and fruit production through horticultural management practices and technology. Sallato’s main areas of interest are 1) soils and plant nutrition; 2) tree fruit stress management; and 3) general horticultural practices for tree fruit production.
Carolina Torres is an Endowed Chair in Tree Fruit Postharvest Systems. Her research program focus is on Washington apples, pears and cherries. Areas of research include abiotic stress and climate effect on fruit quality and storage disorders, fruit physiology and biochemistry, handling technologies, and postharvest systems to optimize fruit quality throughout the supply chain.
Corina Serban is a WSU Extension Educator focused on Little Cherry and X-disease.
Frank Zhao is an Endowed Chair of Bacterial Plant Pathology at Washington State University. Zhao’s focus is on bacterial pathogens of tree fruit including fire blight and bacterial canker. Zhao joined WSU in 2022 coming to us from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Mario Luppino is a PhD Candidate of Entomology studying wild bee communities in apple orchards around the Columbia River Basin. His work has previously focused on the communities of mites affecting wild bees in the Palouse region of eastern Washington and western Idaho.
Tianna DuPont is a Tree Fruit Extension Specialist. Her work focuses on helping growers understand and apply research based solutions for tree fruit pests and pathogens.
Tobin Northfield is an Assistant 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.
Credits Q&A
WSDA pesticide update credits. To receive credits for online attendance, participants must:
- Register each participant including pesticide license information. Make sure registrant name matches name on license.
- Attend 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.
- Respond to poll questions and check-ins during the workshop.
Common Zoom Problems and Trouble Shooting
- Cannot enter the webinar.
- Early? 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.
- Enter the passcode: you can attend the meeting without a zoom account, but you have to enter the passcode to get in. Passcode: 1111.
- All 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.
- No sound
- Check 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.
- Check your audio in your computer settings.
- Still 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.
Common questions:
- Can 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.
