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Volume 19 Number 2 NEW YORK NON-PROFIT SUMMER 2011 Fruit Quarterly STANDARD New York State Horticultural Society U.S. POSTAGE New York State Agricultural Experiment Station 630 W. North Street PAID GENEVA, NY Geneva, New York 14456-0462 PERMIT NO. 75 Address Service Requested Published by the New York State Horticultural Society Lake Ontario Summer Fruit Tour Presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension, Cornell University, & the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station August 3rd, 2011 Featuring super spindle, tall spindle and V-axe apple planting systems, equipment innovations for improving labor efficiency, new pest management technology, weed management, and all about sweet cherries in Orleans and Niagara Counties. • Sponsors will talk about new products available to help you produce high quality fruit. • Join 250 growers, Cornell Faculty, and many supporting business representatives for the day. • Enjoy the BBQ, see how other growers produce fruit, network with sponsors and other growers. • Get new ideas for your farm and have fun! • There is no charge for attending this tour – just drive in at registration and follow us! • You must pre-register so we have adequate facilities and lunch. 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The true mark of a leader is that they can function within Tlongingly about how wonderful and simple life used to be. both. Like in years prior we will and forever need to be investing in There are also those who simply fail to see anything positive until it innovative research programs to improve our industry. There are is taken away from them. Then there are those that we call “leaders” those who may wish to have this accomplished entirely by public who are too busy looking forward to be dragged down by all of this funding. When you leave your future entirely to the fickle whims of meaningless discussion. the political world you are not being “accountable” for the research As I travel from west to east across New York, I am humbled by programs you desperately require for success in the years ahead. A what I recall and what I currently see. The fruit industry has made shared financial cash flow would be ideal. enormous up- grades to its commercial farming practices in a very Today our fruit farms are an inspiration to everyone. While it is short period of time. Orchard acreage in New York State is down but exciting to enjoy these new tools we need to make certain we support our productivity and quality have never been as high. You need to those same principles of our earlier generations. We need to show pause and ask the basic question as to how did this happen? Was this by our actions that we have those same qualities of “leadership and a classic “chicken and egg” scenario? Did we arrive at these cultural accountability”. We are fortunate that we have an excellent scientific practices and varieties by accident? What motivated these changes? research base here in New York State and in the USDA Fruit Research Who inspired the invisible hours of research behind the scenes that Station in West Virginia. These facilities are only as good as the ef- has yielded today’s modern orchard? I think when you ask these fort we place in funding and confiding in them as to what we see as questions you need to be grateful for previous unselfish generations our future needs are. It is good to enjoy the exciting new orchards of “leaders” who were willing to invest in the future which is in our and storage/packing facilities but we need to continue to support case today. the silent, behing-the-scenes work of our researchers. Hopefully Today like yesterday we are faced with difficult choices as to several decades from now some other generations will be grateful where and what to do with all too few discretionary dollars. Life for the sacrifices this generation made in the unselfish investment one, two, three and four decades ago was not all profits and success in research so often not for themselves but the future. stories. Those growers decided that what they knew today was simply never going to be enough. They did not know where they were go- Paul Baker, Executive Director ing but they had the leadership skills to formulate the ARDP so we New York State Horticultural Society could fund research within our industry. The brilliant thing about 3568 Saunders Settlement Road, their plan was that individually they saw that the few investment Sanborn, New York 14132 dollars that each fruit farm would investing would not really harm 716-807-6827 (cell) their current operations but would insure successful future ones. [email protected] 5 10 17 21 25 Contents 5 The Use of Plant Growth Regulators for 17 A New Pheromone for Prionus Root-Boring Beetles COVER: Wafler nursery in 2010. Branching of Nursery Trees in NY State Arthur M. Agnello, Lea Loizos and Dan Gilrein Photo: Marion Miranda Mario Miranda Sazo and Terence L. Robinson 21 Controlling Postharvest Diseases and Disorders 10 Geneva® Rootstocks for Weak Growing Scion of Apples with Non-Recycling Drenches Cultivars Like ‘Honeycrisp’ David A. Rosenberger Terence Robinson, Gennaro Fazio, Steve Hoying, Mario Miranda and Kevin Iungerman 25 Towards Understanding the Genetic Basis of Apple Acidity Kenong Xu NEW YORK FRUIT QUARTERLY . VOLUME 19 . NUMBER 2 . SUMMER 2011 1 (Editorial, cont.) NEW YORK Fruit Quarterly SUMMER 2011 • VOLUME 19 • NUMBER 2 2011 NEW YORK STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY NYS BERRY GROWERS BOARD MEMBERS President Tom DeMarree, DeMarree Fruit Farm Chair Dale Riggs, Stonewall Hill Farm 7654 Townline Rd. 15370 NY Rt 22, Stephentown, NY 12168 Williamson, NY 14589 PH: 518-733-6772; [email protected] PH: 315-589-9698; CELL: 315-576-1244 Treasurer Tony Emmi, Emmi Farms [email protected] 1572 S. Ivy Trail, Baldwinsville, NY 13027 Vice President William R. Gunnison PH: 315-638-7679; [email protected] Gunnison Lakeshore Orchards 3196 NYS Rt. 9W & 22, Crown Point, NY 12928 Executive Secretary Paul Baker PH: 518-597-3363 (W); 518-597-3817(H) 3568 Saunders Settlement Rd., Sanborn, NY 14132 CELL: 518-572-4642 CELL: 716-807-6827; FAX: (716) 219-4089 [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer/Secretary Bruce Kirby, Little Lake Farm Jim Bauman, Bauman Farms 3120 Densmore Road Albion , NY 14411 1340 Five Mile Line Rd., Webster, NY 14580 PH: 585-589-1922 PH: 585-671-5857 [email protected] Bob Brown III, Brown’s Berry Patch APPLE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD 2011 Executive Director Paul Baker 14264 Rooseveldt Highway, Waterport, NY 14571 3568 Saunders Settlement Rd., Sanborn, NY 14132 PH: 585-682-5569 Chairman Walt Blackler, Apple Acres CELL: 716-807-6827; FAX: (716) 219-4089 4633 Cherry Valley Tpk. Lafayette, NY 13084 Bruce Carson, Carson’s Bloomin’ Berries [email protected] PH: 315-677-5144 (W) 2328 Reed Rd. [email protected] Admin Assistant Karen Wilson Bergen, NY 14416 630 W. North St., Geneva, NY 14456 PH: 585-494-1187; [email protected] Alan Burr PH: 315-787-2404; CELL: 315-521-0852 7577 Slayton Settlement Road, Gasport, NY 14067 Jim Coulter, Coulter Farms FAX: 315) 787-2216; [email protected] PH: 585-772-2469; [email protected] 3871 N. Ridge Road, Lockport, NY 14094 Cornell Director Dr. Terence Robinson, NYSAES PH: 716-433-5335; [email protected] Steve Clarke 630 W. North Street 40 Clarkes Lane, Milton, NY 12547 John Hand, Hand Melon Farm Hedrick Hall, Room 125, Geneva, NY 14456 PH: 845-795-2383; [email protected] PH: 315-787-2227; CELL: 315-521-0435 533 Wilber Ave., Greenwich, NY 12834 [email protected] PH: 518-692-2376; [email protected] Rod Farrow 12786 Kendrick Road, Waterport, NY 14571 Director Peter Fleckenstein, Marshall S. Skiff Orchards Terry Mosher, Mosher Farms PH: 585-589-7022 4472 Cherry Valley Tpk., LaFayette, NY 13084 RD #1 Box 69, Bouckville, NY 13310 PH: (315) 436-1045; CELL: (315) 664-0391 PH: 315-893-7173; [email protected] Mason Forrence [email protected] 2740 Route 22, Peru, NY 12972 Alan Tomion, Tomion Farms PH: 518-643-9527; [email protected] Director Dan Sievert 3024 Ferguson Corners Rd., Penn Yan, NY 14527 Lakeview Orchards, Inc.