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Fruit Quarterly SPRING 2013 Leadership and Accountability NEW YORK Editorial Fruit Quarterly SPRING 2013 Leadership and Accountability here are those who spend their hours discussing how to invest would not really harm their current operations but difficult and unfair the current times are. There are those would insure successful future ones. Twho reflect longingly about how wonderful and simple life used to be. There are also those who simply fail to see anything Today is always here and the future is always slightly out of positive until it is taken away from them. Then there are those your reach. The true mark of a leader is that they can function that we call “leaders” who are too busy looking forward to be within both. Like in years past we will and forever need to dragged down by all of this meaningless discussion. be investing in innovative research programs to improve our industry. There are those who may wish to have this I travel from west to east across New York and have done so accomplished entirely public funding. When you leave your all of my six decades. I am humbled by what I recall and what I future entirely to the fickle whims of the political world you currently see. The fruit industry has made enormous up- grades are not being “accountable” for the research programs you to its commercial farming practices in a very short period of desperately require for success in the years ahead. A shared time. Orchard acreage in New York State is down but our financial cash flow would be ideal. productivity and quality have never been at this high level. You need to pause and ask the basic question as to how did this Today our fruit farms are an inspiration to everyone. While it happen? Was this a classic “chicken and egg” scenario? Did we is exciting to enjoy these new tools we need to make certain we arrive at these cultural practices and varieties by accident? What support those same principles of our earlier generations. We motivated these changes? Who inspired the invisible hours of need to show by our actions that we have those same qualities research behind the scenes that has yielded today’s modern of “leadership and accountability”. We are fortunate that we orchard? I think when you ask these questions you need to be have an excellent scientific research base here in New York grateful for previous unselfish generations of “leaders” who State and in the USDA Fruit Research Station in West Virginia. were willing to invest in the future which is today. These facilities are only as good as the effort we place in funding and confiding in them as to what we see as our future needs Today like yesterday we are faced with difficult choices as to are. It is good to enjoy the exciting new orchards and storage/ where and what to do with our dollars. Life one, two, three packing facilities but we need to continue to support the silent and four decades ago was not all profits and success stories. behind the scenes work of our researchers. Hopefully several Those growers decided that what they knew today was simply decades from now some other generations will be grateful for never going to be enough. They did not know where they were the sacrifices this generation made in the unselfish investment going but they had the leadership skills to formulate the ARDP in research so often not for themselves but the future. so we could fund research within our industry. The brilliant thing about their plan was that individually they saw that the Paul Baker few investment dollars that each fruit farm would be forced New York State Horticultural Society 40 40 25 25 New growth New growth 35 35 Shoots and leaves 20 Shoots and leaves 20 30 30 Fruit Fruit 25 25 15 15 20 20 15 15 10 10 10 10 5 5 Total tree N (g/tree) Total tree 5 A N (g/tree) Total tree 5 AB B Total N in new growth(g) Total N in new 0 0 0 0 growth(g) Total N in new 0 20 40 60 80 100120140160 00 20 20 40 40 60 60 80 80 100120140160 100120140160 0 20 40 60 80 100120140160 Days after budbreak DaysDays after after budbreak budbreak Days after budbreak 3 11 15 21 25 Contents 3 An Update on Apple Cultivars, Brands and 21 Optimizing Nitrogen and Potassium Club-Marketing Management to Foster Apple Tree Growth and COVER: A 5-year old Tall Spindle orchard that Susan K. Brown and Kevin E. Maloney Cropping Without Getting ‘Burned’ has been mechanically pruned on July Lailiang Cheng 1 with a hedging machine to produce 11 Apple Fruit Growth a fruiting wall. (Photo courtesy of Alan N. Lakso and Martin C. Goffinet 25 Optimizing Strawberry Production with a Terence Robinson)” Reduced Tillage System 15 Recent Advances of Mechanization for the Tall Laura McDermott Spindle Orchard System in New York State – Part 1 Mario Miranda Sazo and Terence L. Robinson NEW YORK FRUIT QUARTERLY . VOLUME 21 . NUMBER 1 . SPRING 2013 1 NEW YORK Fruit Quarterly SPRING 2013 • VOLUME 21 • NUMBER 1 NEW YORK STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY NYS BERRY GROWERS BOARD MEMBERS President William R. Gunnison Chair Dale Riggs, Stonewall Hill Farm Gunnison Lakeshore Orchards 15370 NY Rt 22, Stephentown, NY 12168 3196 NYS Rt. 9W & 22, Crown Point, NY 12928 PH: 518-733-6772; [email protected] PH: 518-597-3363 (W); 518-597-3817(H) Treasurer Tony Emmi, Emmi Farms CELL: 518-572-4642 1572 S. Ivy Trail, Baldwinsville, NY 13027 [email protected] PH: 315-638-7679; [email protected] Vice President Chuck Mead, Mead Orchards LLC 15 Scism Rd., Tivoli, NY 12583 Executive Secretary Paul Baker PH: 845-756-5641 (W); CELL: 845-389-0731 3568 Saunders Settlement Rd., Sanborn, NY 14132 [email protected] CELL: 716-807-6827; FAX: (716) 219-4089 [email protected] Treasurer/Secretary Doug Fox, D&L Ventures LLC 4959 Fish Farm Rd., Sodus, NY 14551 Bob Brown III, Brown’s Berry Patch PH: 315-483-4556 14264 Rooseveldt Highway, Waterport, NY 14571 [email protected] PH: 585-682-5569 Executive Director Paul Baker Bruce Carson, Carson’s Bloomin’ Berries 3568 Saunders Settlement Rd., Sanborn, NY 14132 2328 Reed Rd. CELL: 716-807-6827; FAX: (716) 219-4089 Bergen, NY 14416 [email protected] PH: 585-494-1187; [email protected] APPLE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD Admin Assistant Karen Wilson David Coulter, Coulter Farms Chairman Walt Blackler, Apple Acres 630 W. North St., Geneva, NY 14456 3871 N. Ridge Road, Lockport, NY 14094 4633 Cherry Valley Tpk. Lafayette, NY 13084 PH: 315-787-2404; CELL: 315-521-0852 PH: 716-433-5335; [email protected] PH: 315-677-5144 (W) FAX: 315) 787-2216; [email protected] John Cashin [email protected] Cornell Director Dr. Terence Robinson, NYSAES Cashin Farm Alan Burr 630 W. North Street 225 Argersinger Road, Fultonville, New York 12072 7577 Slayton Settlement Road, Gasport, NY 14067 Hedrick Hall, Room 125, Geneva, NY 14456 PH: 518-281-6000; cashinsfarm.com PH: 315-787-2227; CELL: 315-521-0435 PH: 585-772-2469; [email protected] Terry Mosher, Mosher Farms [email protected] Steve Clarke RD #1 Box 69, Bouckville, NY 13310 Director Tom DeMarree, DeMarree Fruit Farm 40 Clarkes Lane, Milton, NY 12547 PH: 315-893-7173; [email protected] 7654 Townline Rd. PH: 845-795-2383; [email protected] Williamson, NY 14589 Chuck Mead, Mead Orchards LLC Rod Farrow PH: 315-589-9698; CELL: 315-576-1244 15 Scism Rd., Tivoli, NY 12583 12786 Kendrick Road, Waterport, NY 14571 [email protected] PH: 845-756-5641 (W); CELL: 845-389-0731 PH: 585-589-7022 Director Peter Fleckenstein, Marshall S. Skiff Orchards [email protected] Mason Forrence 4472 Cherry Valley Tpk., LaFayette, NY 13084 2740 Route 22, Peru, NY 12972 PH: (315) 436-1045; CELL: (315) 664-0391 PH: 518-643-9527; [email protected] [email protected] Director Dan Sievert Ted Furber, Cherry Lawn Farms Lakeview Orchards, Inc. 8099 GLover Rd., Sodus, NY 14551 NEW YORK 4941 Lake Road, Burt, NY 14028 PH: 315-483-8529 PH: 716-778-7491 (W); CELL: 716-870-8968 Fruit Quarterly Dan McCarthy [email protected] SPRING 2013 • VOLUME 21 • NUMBER 1 This publication is a joint effort of the New York State Horticultural Society, NY State Dept. of Agriculture & Markets Director Roderick Dressel, Jr., Dressel Farms Cornell University’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at 10B Airline Drive, Albany, NY 12235 271 Rt 208, New Paltz, NY 12561 Geneva, the New York State Apple Research and Development Program, PH: 518-457-8857; [email protected] PH: 845-255-0693 (W); 845-255-7717 (H) and the NYSBGA. Peter Ten Eyck, Indian Ladder Farms [email protected] Editors Terence Robinson and Steve Hoying 342 Altamont Road Director Robert DeBadts, Lake Breeze Fruit Farm Dept. of Horticulture Altamont, NY 12009 6272 Lake Road, Sodus, NY 14551 New York State Agricultural Experiment Station PH: 518-765-2956; [email protected] PH: 315-483-0910 (W), 315-483-9904 (H) Geneva, New York 14456-0462 Robert Deemer, Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group [email protected]; (Summer – use FAX only) PH: 315-787-2227 4363 Rte.104 Director Peter Barton [email protected]; [email protected] Williamson, NY 14589 55 Apple Tree Lane, Paughquag, NY 12570 Subscriptions Karen Wilson PH: 315-589-9695 ext. 713 PH: 845-227-2306 (W); 845-227-7149 (H) & Advertising NYSHS, 630 W. North St., Geneva, NY 14456 CELL: 845-656-5217 PH: 315-787-2404; FAX: 315) 787-2216 [email protected] [email protected] Director John Ivison, Helena Chemical Co.
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