[NAFEX] Midwest Apple Improvement Ass'n Annual Meeting, Eckert's Orchard Belleville, IL
Ed Fackler
ed.fackler at gmail.com
Fri Sep 8 07:50:19 EDT 2006
*Midwest Apple Improvement Association*
*Making Good Apples Great!*
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*2006 Annual Meeting*
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*Date* – *Wednesday, October 4, 2006*
*Location** – Morning Program
Local Motel*
St. Clair County Farm Bureau
Sleep Inn
1478 East State Rd. 15
140 Venita Drive
Belleville, IL 62220
O'Fallon, IL 62269
*Location **– Afternoon Session *
Ph. 618-628-8200*
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Eckert's Orchard
Located
at exit 14, off I-64
951 S. Green Mount Road
Belleville, IL 62220
Ph. 618-233-0513
*Registration* - $10.00 per person (which includes lunch), payable at the
door.
*Agenda*
7:30 am – 8:15 am – *Registration (coffee/pastries)*
8:15 am – 8:30 am – *Opening Remarks*
President Jim Eckert, Eckert Orchard
8:30 am – 9:15 am – *New Apples, New Opportunities, New Profits*
Peter Hirst, Purdue University
9:15 am – 10:00 am *– Wild Apples of the Kyrgyz Republic: Are Hidden
Gems among Them?*
Diane Miller, Ohio State
University
10:00 am – 10:15 am – Break
10:15 am – 11:00 am – *Club Varieties are Here, So What?*
Wally Heuser, Wanda Heuser,
Summit Sales
11:00 am – 11:30 am – *MAIA in Transition*
Mitch Lynd, Lynd Fruit Farm
11:30 am – 12:15 pm – *Evaluating and Selecting New Apple Introductions
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Chris Doll, University of
Illinois (retired)
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm – Lunch (catered)
12:45 pm – 1:00 pm – *drive to Eckert's MAIA Apple Seedling Blocks*
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm – *Evaluate Fruit of New Apple Progeny*
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We'll walk and sample fruit from GoldRush x CQR10T17 progeny planted in
2000 and GoldRush x Sweet 16 progeny planted in 2001. Both contain
seedlings of *"off the chart"* fruit qualities and many more trees are
fruiting for the first time this year.
At least a few MAIA members got very excited by apples from a couple
trees from these plantings during last year's Indianapolis MAIA meeting. I
even heard Jules Janick make a "non-biased" assessment of one when he simply
stated "this is great!"
I *highly encourage your attendance* as we'll see years of diligent
work. Also feel free to bring fellow growers to see one of the finest
retail orchard operations in the US.
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