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Bramble Volume 21, Issue 3 VOLUME 21, ISSUE 3 THE BRAMBLE AUTUMN, 2005 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BRAMBLE GROWERS ASSOCIATION, INC. Request for Proposals ***** NABGA Annual Meeting & Conference ***** The North American Bramble Growers January 5-6, 2006 – Savannah, Georgia Research Foundation (NABGRF) is Our 2006 Annual Meeting will be held in association with the Georgia Fruit and seeking proposals for bramble research Vegetable Growers Association’s Southeast Fruit and Vegetable Conference (SFVC) in for the year 2006. Since 1999, NABGRF Savannah, Georgia. We hope to see you there! Watch your mailbox and e-mail for has funded a total of 26 proposals, registration details and accommodations information. totaling $50,146. To register for NABGA’s meeting, you will simply register for the SFVC. This All bramble proposals will be conference has a very large trade show and extensive sessions on blueberries, peaches, considered, however preference will be and vegetable crops January 6-8. Fees are very reasonable and both one-day and three- given to proposals related to: day registrations are available. The North American Strawberry Growers Association • cultivar development and testing (NASGA) will be meeting here (as the “North American Berry Conference”), on • pest management strategies January 4-6, with educational sessions on the 4th, a tour on January 5, and general • cultural management strategies to im- sessions the morning of the 6th. A forum on the National Berry Crops Initiative prove yield, quality and profitability Strategic Plan for the Berry Industry (see pages 8-9) is planned for Saturday, January • identification of beneficial com- 7. This concentration and combination of oppportunities is well worth the trip. And pounds in bramble fruit and their Savannah is a beautiful, historic city and a great winter getaway all by itself! effects on human health Here’s the schedule at this point; the committee is still firming up some details. Funding for individual projects is expected to range from $1,500 to $3,000. Thursday, January 5 In 2005, NABGRF funded six proposals, 1:00-4:00 pm Blackberry ABCs: The basics of blackberry production for potential for a total of $7,385. Three proposals growers and those in their first year or two of production – or a refresher course for were funded through a cooperative more experienced growers. A basic understanding of the blackberry’s life cycle, needs, arrangement with the IR-4 program, and preferences, and discussion of varieties, establishment, trellising, pruning, which supplemented NABGA’s contribu- problem diagnosis and management, and marketing decisions. Includes growers tion to fully fund these proposals. sharing experiences from their own first years. The fee for this session is $25. Enroll- Proposals will be reviewed by ment is limited and must be pre-registered. NABGA’s Research Committee at the Friday, January 6 Association’s meeting in Savannah, 8:00 Current Production Issues (cane dieback, viruses, etc.) Georgia in January 2006. Awards will be 8:45 The Primocane-Fruiting Blackberry Story: Progress and Prospects sent out shortly after the meeting, well 9:45 Tracking the New Bramble Rust before the 2006 growing season. Dead- line for proposals is December 1, 2005.❖ 10:15 Learning from Setbacks, Finding Successes: A Grower Panel Guidelines for proposals may be 11:30 Bramble Research Update found at www.raspberryblackberry.com/ 12:00 Lunch, visit exhibits Webdocs/2006%20NABGA%20RFP.pdf 1:30 Blackberry Nutrition Management or may be requested from the NABGA 2:00 The Changing Climate of Bramble Marketing: Panel Discussion with Leading office. Buyers and Marketers 3:30 NABGA Annual Meeting It’s Membership 4:00 What I Really Want to Know... Q&A Panel with All Speakers Renewal Time 6:30 Bramble Growers Dinner: Town meeting-style discussion and Dutch-treat A membership renewal form (colored dinner (at a restaurant within walking distance; location TBA) paper) is tucked into this issue of Confirmed speakers for the conference include John Clark, University of Arkan- your newsletter. Please renew today! sas, David Lockwood, University of Tennessee; Gina Fernandez, North Carolina State NABGA’s membership year runs University; Phil Brannen, University of Georgia; Mike Bruorton and Keith Mixon, October 1 through September 30. (If SunnyRidge Farms; Tom Peerbolt, NW IPM & Peerbolt Crop Management; Chuck & you joined in the last few months, Ann Geyer, Westmoreland Berry Farm; Danny Shelton, Shelton Farms; Gary Suckow, yours is a 2006 membership, and you G&N Berry Farm. do not need to renew.) The full conference program and registration brochure will be mailed to you in October and posted on our website.❖ E V E N T S NABGA Regional Meeting October 20, 2005 — Raspberry High February 15-16, 2006 – Syracuse, New York Tunnel Open House, 1 to 4 pm at NABGA will hold a Regional Meeting in cooperation with the New York State Cornell’s East Ithaca Farm. For more information contact Cathy Heidenreich, Berry Growers Association as part of the Empire State Fruit and Vegetable [email protected] or 315-787-2367. Expo. NABGA will sponsor an intensive workshop on the “ABCs of Raspberry Production” on Thursday, February 15 and an expanded program of bramble October 25, 26 – National Berry Crop sessions and discussions on February 15 and 16. Speakers will include small Initiative Strategic Planning Workshop fruit breeder Courtney Weber and ExtensionSpecialist Marvin Pritts, both from in Geneva, New York. See pages 8-9. For Cornell. The New York State Berry Growers Association meeting on Friday, registration info, visit the “Events” section February 16 will also include sessions on blueberries and strawberries. The of our website or contact NABGA. Empire State Fruit and Vegetable Expo covers many commodities and has a December 1-2 —Northwest Center for large trade show. Small Fruits Research annual confer- There’s still time to make suggestions of topics you’d like included in the ence, in Portland. For more information program. If you’ve got some ideas, contact Executive Council members Nate contact Philip Gütt at (541) 758-4043 or Nourse 9413-665-2658 or [email protected]) or Dena Fiacchino (315- [email protected]. 963-7286 ext 203, or [email protected]) January 5-6, 2006 – NABGA Annual Hope to see you there! Meeting and Conference. See page 1. January 9-10, 2006 —57th Western Small Fruit Pest Conference at Wash- contests at your own farm. One grower ington State University’s Mt. Vernon rotated stock frequently, to refrigerate we know holds a picking contest as part Research and Extension Center. For more what they bought and use it quickly, and of a weekend strawberry festival and information contact Tom Walters at 360- to find a local farm where they could get gives prizes (gift certificates to the local 848-6143 or [email protected]. fresh-picked berries. Home Depot) to the winners. Prizes are It certainly doesn’t make the industry February 15-16, 2006 –NABGA Re- awarded for most berries picked by an look good if consumers think that moldy gional Meeting, Syracuse, New York. individual and by a family. Participants raspberries are to be expected. How See box to right. have all weekend to make their totals, would YOU respond to that question? and each participant’s cumulative totals How do YOU assure the quality of what I D E A C O R N E R are posted on a whiteboard at the you sell? Can handling be improved in weighing and checkout station. the wholesale/retail process? Picking LOTS of Berries A contest like this adds fun and an If you have comments, send them to element of competition – and gets a lot of NABGA via phone, email, mail or fax! On August 8, NABGA member The berries picked! Happy Berry (Walker Miller) in Six * * * * * Mile, SC, announced the first world Follow-up: Nourse Farms reports that the record for pounds of rabbiteye blueber- Do We Have A Problem? Jaclyn variety, mentioned in the last issue ries picked per hour. According to Recently, NABGA received the following of The Bramble, is now available through Guinness World Records, the only email from a consumer in Texas: the Nourse catalog. previous category was for most blueber- There appears to be quite a bit of ries picked in eight hours by an indi- information on the Internet about the vidual, and there is no current record various molds and diseases that can The BRAMBLE is a quarterly publica- holder. The Happy Berry felt that eight affect raspberries (and any other tion of the North American Bramble Growers Association (NABGA) and is a hours was so long a time that only plant), but almost no information about benefit of membership in the association. commercial pickers would be likely to the edibility of affected fruit. For sample copy, reprint permision, attempt to set a record. To encourage If washed with water, are the grey membership information, and advertising more participation, they designed a spot-bearing raspberries safe to eat? rates, contact picking contest to measure the pounds We responded that raspberries are NABGA picked per hour, and lobbied Guinness very perishable and get moldy easily and 1138 Rock Rest Road World Records to add this category to that washing off the mold really didn’t Pittsboro, NC 27312 their books. For more information visit get rid of it. Though it wouldn’t hurt you Phone: 919-542-3687 www.TheHappyBerry.com. to eat the mold, the fruit wouldn’t taste Fax: 919-542-4037 Even if you don’t want to get into the good. We suggested that the best options Email: [email protected] Guinness Book of World Records, you were to seek out stores that took particu- The Bramble © NABGA 2005 might want to consider holding picking lar pride in fresh, high quality fruit and 2 THE BRAMBLE: NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BRAMBLE GROWERS ASSOCIATION, AUTUMN 2005 NABGA Wants YOU..
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