[NAFEX] Midwest Apple Improvement Ass'n Annual Meeting, Eckert's Orchard Belleville, IL
Dennis Norton
dmnorton at royaloakfarmorchard.com
Fri Sep 8 09:10:54 EDT 2006
I would love to attend this meeting, but it is scheduled during our busiest
week of the entire apple season!
Dennis Norton
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.theorchardkeeper.blogspot.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Fackler
To: NAFEX Greetings:
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 6:50 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Midwest Apple Improvement Ass'n Annual Meeting,Eckert's
Orchard Belleville, IL
Midwest Apple Improvement Association
Making Good Apples Great!
2006 Annual Meeting
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
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
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
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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