MN Fruit & Vegetable IPM News - Vol. 1, No. 11

When: Friday, August 6, 2004
Where: Pine Tree Apple Orchard, White Bear Lake, MN
Time: On-site registration from 8 am to 9 am
Tour runs from 9 am to 3 pm
For more information about registration contact: Ralph Yates, MAGA Secretary, 507-895-2388.
Cost:

Pre-registration:
$20.00 per person for MAGA and MFVGA members, families, employees, etc.
$25.00 per person for non-members
Deadline for pre-registration is July 31, 2004, can register at the door, but lunch is not guaranteed.

At the door registration:
$25.00 per person for MAGA and MFVGA members
$30.00 per person for non-members

***Some of the activities planned for the day include:

Orchard Tour: high density plantings; wood chip mulching and weed control; bench grafting; thinning trials; honeycrisp trial; integrated pest management (IPM); fertility program

Strawberry Tour: new and old plantings; no till renovation; U of M variety trials; IPM; planting with compost; fertility program

Pumpkins: plastic culture; weed control; fertility program

Luncheon: Food Alliance Midwest meal; Crop reports and forecasts

Directions to Pine Tree Apple Orchard:

*From St.Paul: East on 94 to 35E North. North on 35E to County 96. East / Right on 96 approx. 1 mile to Hwy 61. North /Left on 61, 1 mile to East Hwy 96. East/Right 2 miles to Apple Orchard Road. North / Left on Apple Orchard Road approx. 1.5 miles to orchard, follow red and white signs.
*From Minneapolis: North on 35W to 694. East on 694 to 35E. Then proceed as above.

*East on Hwy 36 to 35E. North on 35E and proceed as above.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, hutch002@umn.edu
Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Division,jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us
Suzanne Wold-Burkness, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, woldx018@umn.edu

The Newsletter is published weekly from May through August, cooperatively, by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the University of Minnesota (U of MN). Reports are posted on the U of MN and MDA web sites on Fridays. If you have suggestions and/or comments, please send your contributions by 4 p.m., Tuesday to Jeanne Ciborowski, 651-297-3217, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us , MDA, 90 W. Plato Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55107-2094. You can access the Newsletter at the U of MN web site in htm. format at: www.vegedge.umn.edu/MNFruit&VegNews/mnindex.htm and at the MDA web site in pdf. format at: www.mda.state.mn.us/biocon/fruitreports/default.htm

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Last Revised July 22, 2004.
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