From: Kristin Johnson
[mailto:kristinj@uidaho.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010
9:47 AM
Subject: U-IDAHO News: Learn to
Grow Table Grapes at Feb. 6 Workshop in Parma
Jan. 28, 2010
Media Contacts: Essie Fallahi, (208) 722-6701, efallahi@uidaho.edu
; Marlene Fritz, Educational Communications, (208) 364-6165, mfritz@uidaho.edu .
Learn to Grow Table Grapes at Feb. 6 Workshop
in Parma
Written by Marlene Fritz
PARMA, Idaho—Snake River
Valley residents can unlock the keys
to producing luscious table grapes when University
of Idaho Extension faculty deliver
their research-based knowledge to participants in this year’s Table Grape
Symposium Feb. 6 at Parma
High School.
Pomologist
Essie Fallahi will discuss propagation, pruning, training, canopy designs,
nutrition and storage for maximum table grape size, production and quality.
Nematologist Saad Hafez will address nematodes and ground fumigation, and plant
pathologist Krishna Mohan will cover grape powdery mildew and other important
diseases. In addition to these Parma Research and Extension Center faculty, the
workshop will feature Pipeco’s Dick Bronson on grape irrigation and
Wilbur-Ellis’ Tom Tankersley on grape insects and agrichemicals.
Participants
who bring their pruning tools and allow workshop sponsors to sanitize them may
participate in an early-afternoon session of applying what they’ve
learned.
The
workshop, co-sponsored by the University of Idaho College of Agricultural and
Life Sciences and the Snake River Table Grape Growers Association, will begin
at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 2:30 p.m. Cost is $28 for individuals and $40 for
couples. Lunch is included.
To
register, call the SRTGGA at (208) 573-8405 or (208) 850-4261 by Feb. 2. Parma High School
is located at 137 Panther Way
in Parma.
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