Walworth, Williamson, Pultneyville, and Alton N.Y.
Highlights of the tour will include berry and odd fruit production and pest management issues, innovative CSA marketing, weed control treatment plots in young trees, alternative pollinators for fruit crops, update on strep-resistant fire blight in NY, controlling tree growth in a light crop year, climate, frost and crop protection methods, managing growth in grafted trees, using induction cones for safer pesticide mixing, using platforms and hedgers for increased labor efficiency in tall spindle plantings. Growers, industry, and Cornell faculty and specialists share new technology and better ways to produce fruit.