- Author: Mark Bolda
Announcing the 2017 Annual Caneberry meeting.
Meeting will be held at the UC Cooperative Extension office at 1430 Freedom Blvd (Suite E) in Watsonville on February 14. Solid material from start to finish - following a brief regulatory update, we'll talk about spotted wing drosophila, have a look at options to methyl bromide fumigation thanks to our colleague Inga Zasada from Oregon and then explore the issue of fruit deformity in blackberry with UCCE's own Shimat Joseph and Mark Gaskell.
Agenda below.
Hot breakfast to be served before the meeting. See you there!
- Author: Mark Bolda
There is a caneberry meeting sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension planned for January 11 of the new year. Featured will be talks about cost and returns of growing primocane raspberries under tunnels by UCCE Farm Management Advisor Laura Tourte, general talks on yield enhancement work and pest management by yours truly, further insight on spotted wing drosophila by UC Davis' Kelly Hamby, irrigation managment by UCCE water guru Michael Cahn, primocane blackberry management by UCCE Farm Advisor Mark Gaskell, and a regulatory update courtesy of the Santa Cruz Agricultural Commissioner's office.
Agenda is posted at:
http://cesantacruz.ucanr.edu/files/158012.pdf