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Midwest Apple Improvement Association

Making Good Apples Great!

 

2007 Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday November 10, 2007

 

Meeting Location:                                                           Local Motel: 

Dawes Arboretum                                                              Quality Inn

7770 Jacksontown Rd, SE                                                  733 Hebron Road

Newark, OH 43056                                                            Heath, OH 43056

For directions go to: www.dawesarb.org                           Ph. 740-522-1165

                                                        Located 8 miles north of

                                                                                            I-70 exit 129B on SR 79.

 

Registration - $15.00 per person (which includes lunch), payable at the door.

Program

 

     8 am – 8:30 am – Registration (coffee/pastries)

 

     8:30 am – 8:45 am – Opening Remarks

                                              President Mitch Lynd, Lynd Fruit Farm

 

     8:45 am – 9:15 am – Importance of MAIA Apples to Dawes Future

                                              Ms. Sarah Lowe, Director of Education, Dawes Arboretum

 

     9:15 am – 10:00 am – Fifty Years of Apple Breeding: A Perspective

                                              Dr. Jules Janick, Fruit Breeder, Purdue University

 

   10:00 am – 10:15 am – Break

 

   10:15 am – 11:00 am – Apple Scab Resistance - Beginning or End?

                                              Dr. Janna Beckerman, Ext. Plant Pathologist, Purdue University

 

   11:00 am – 11:45 am – MAIA: A Vehicle to Apple Biodiversity

                                              Dr. Diane Miller, Pomologist, Ohio State University

 

   11:45 am – 12:45 pm – Lunch (catered)

 

    12:45 pm – 1:30 pm  - Evaluation Protocol: Finding the Winners

                                              Dr. Joe Goffreda, Fruit Breeder, Rutgers University

 

      1:30 pm – 2:15 pm  - Let's Make Some New Apples

                                             Mitch Lynd, Lynd Fruit Farm

 

      2:15 pm – 3:30 pm – Evaluation Fruit of Apple Seedlings

                                         and walking Seedling Blocks (weather permitting)

 

    For additional information, phone Mitch Lynd at 740-967-5355. Your attendance is highly encouraged, as we'll see years of diligent work by Dawes and the Arboretum itself is simply spectacular!