Editorial F Quarterly SUMMER 2011 Leadership and...
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5 The Use of Plant Growth Regulators for Branching of Nursery Trees in NY State Mario Miranda Sazo and Terence L. Robinson 10 Geneva® Rootstocks for Weak Growing Scion Cultivars Like ‘Honeycrisp’ Terence Robinson, Gennaro Fazio, Steve Hoying, Mario Miranda and Kevin Iungerman 17 A New Pheromone for Prionus Root-Boring Beetles Arthur M. Agnello, Lea Loizos and Dan Gilrein 21 Controlling Postharvest Diseases and Disorders of Apples with Non-Recycling Drenches David A. Rosenberger 25 Towards Understanding the Genetic Basis of Apple Acidity Kenong Xu NEW YORK FRUIT QUARTERLY . VOLUME 19 . NUMBER 2 . SUMMER 2011 1 5 10 17 21 25 COVER: Wafler nursery in 2010. Photo: Marion Miranda Contents NEW YORK Fruit Quarterly SUMMER 2011 Editorial Leadership and Accountability T here are those who spend their hours discussing how difficult and unfair the current times are. ere are those who reflect longingly about how wonderful and simple life used to be. ere are also those who simply fail to see anything positive until it is taken away from them. en there are those that we call “leaders” who are too busy looking forward to be dragged down by all of this meaningless discussion. As I travel from west to east across New York, I am humbled by what I recall and what I currently see. e fruit industry has made enormous up- grades to its commercial farming practices in a very short period of time. Orchard acreage in New York State is down but our productivity and quality have never been as high. You need to pause and ask the basic question as to how did this happen? Was this a classic “chicken and egg” scenario? Did we arrive at these cultural practices and varieties by accident? What motivated these changes? Who inspired the invisible hours of research behind the scenes that has yielded today’s modern orchard? I think when you ask these questions you need to be grateful for previous unselfish generations of “leaders” who were willing to invest in the future which is in our case today. Today like yesterday we are faced with difficult choices as to where and what to do with all too few discretionary dollars. Life one, two, three and four decades ago was not all profits and success stories. ose growers decided that what they knew today was simply never going to be enough. ey did not know where they were go- ing but they had the leadership skills to formulate the ARDP so we could fund research within our industry. e brilliant thing about their plan was that individually they saw that the few investment dollars that each fruit farm would investing would not really harm their current operations but would insure successful future ones. Today is always here and the future is always slightly out of your reach. e true mark of a leader is that they can function within both. Like in years prior we will and forever need to be investing in innovative research programs to improve our industry. ere are those who may wish to have this accomplished entirely by public funding. When you leave your future entirely to the fickle whims of the political world you are not being “accountable” for the research programs you desperately require for success in the years ahead. A shared financial cash flow would be ideal. Today our fruit farms are an inspiration to everyone. While it is exciting to enjoy these new tools we need to make certain we support those same principles of our earlier generations. We need to show by our actions that we have those same qualities of “leadership and accountability”. We are fortunate that we have an excellent scientific research base here in New York State and in the USDA Fruit Research Station in West Virginia. ese facilities are only as good as the ef- fort we place in funding and confiding in them as to what we see as our future needs are. It is good to enjoy the exciting new orchards and storage/packing facilities but we need to continue to support the silent, behing-the-scenes work of our researchers. Hopefully several decades from now some other generations will be grateful for the sacrifices this generation made in the unselfish investment in research so often not for themselves but the future. Paul Baker, Executive Director New York State Horticultural Society 3568 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, New York 14132 716-807-6827 (cell) [email protected]
Transcript of Editorial F Quarterly SUMMER 2011 Leadership and...
5 TheUseofPlantGrowthRegulatorsforBranchingofNurseryTreesinNYState
MarioMirandaSazoandTerenceL.Robinson
10 Geneva®RootstocksforWeakGrowingScion CultivarsLike‘Honeycrisp’ TerenceRobinson,GennaroFazio,SteveHoying,Mario
MirandaandKevinIungerman
17 ANewPheromoneforPrionusRoot-BoringBeetles ArthurM.Agnello,LeaLoizosandDanGilrein
21 ControllingPostharvestDiseasesandDisorders ofAppleswithNon-RecyclingDrenches DavidA.Rosenberger
25 TowardsUnderstandingtheGeneticBasis ofAppleAcidity KenongXu
NEW YORK FRUIT QUARTERLY . VOLUME 19 . NUMBER 2 . SUMMER 2011 1
5 10 17 21 25
COVER:Waflernurseryin2010. Photo:MarionMiranda
Contents
NEW YORK Fruit Quarterly SUMMER 2011Editorial
Leadership and Accountability
There are those who spend their hours discussing how difficult and unfair the current times are. There are those who reflect longingly about how wonderful and simple life used to be.
There are also those who simply fail to see anything positive until it is taken away from them. Then there are those that we call “leaders” who are too busy looking forward to be dragged down by all of this meaningless discussion.
As I travel from west to east across New York, I am humbled by what I recall and what I currently see. The fruit industry has made enormous up- grades to its commercial farming practices in a very short period of time. Orchard acreage in New York State is down but our productivity and quality have never been as high. You need to pause and ask the basic question as to how did this happen? Was this a classic “chicken and egg” scenario? Did we arrive at these cultural practices and varieties by accident? What motivated these changes? Who inspired the invisible hours of research behind the scenes that has yielded today’s modern orchard? I think when you ask these questions you need to be grateful for previous unselfish generations of “leaders” who were willing to invest in the future which is in our case today.
Today like yesterday we are faced with difficult choices as to where and what to do with all too few discretionary dollars. Life one, two, three and four decades ago was not all profits and success stories. Those growers decided that what they knew today was simply never going to be enough. They did not know where they were go-ing but they had the leadership skills to formulate the ARDP so we could fund research within our industry. The brilliant thing about their plan was that individually they saw that the few investment dollars that each fruit farm would investing would not really harm their current operations but would insure successful future ones.
Today is always here and the future is always slightly out of your reach. The true mark of a leader is that they can function within both. Like in years prior we will and forever need to be investing in innovative research programs to improve our industry. There are those who may wish to have this accomplished entirely by public funding. When you leave your future entirely to the fickle whims of the political world you are not being “accountable” for the research programs you desperately require for success in the years ahead. A shared financial cash flow would be ideal.
Today our fruit farms are an inspiration to everyone. While it is exciting to enjoy these new tools we need to make certain we support those same principles of our earlier generations. We need to show by our actions that we have those same qualities of “leadership and accountability”. We are fortunate that we have an excellent scientific research base here in New York State and in the USDA Fruit Research Station in West Virginia. These facilities are only as good as the ef-fort we place in funding and confiding in them as to what we see as our future needs are. It is good to enjoy the exciting new orchards and storage/packing facilities but we need to continue to support the silent, behing-the-scenes work of our researchers. Hopefully several decades from now some other generations will be grateful for the sacrifices this generation made in the unselfish investment in research so often not for themselves but the future.
Paul Baker, Executive DirectorNew York State Horticultural Society3568 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, New York 14132716-807-6827 (cell)[email protected]
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2011 NEW YORK STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
President TomDeMarree,DeMarreeFruitFarm 7654TownlineRd. Williamson,NY14589 PH:315-589-9698;CELL:315-576-1244 [email protected]
VicePresident WilliamR.Gunnison GunnisonLakeshoreOrchards 3196NYSRt.9W&22,CrownPoint,NY12928 PH:518-597-3363(W);518-597-3817(H) CELL:518-572-4642 [email protected]
Treasurer/Secretary BruceKirby,LittleLakeFarm 3120DensmoreRoadAlbion,NY14411 PH:585-589-1922 [email protected]
ExecutiveDirector PaulBaker 3568SaundersSettlementRd.,Sanborn,NY14132 CELL:716-807-6827;FAX:(716)219-4089 [email protected]
AdminAssistant KarenWilson 630W.NorthSt.,Geneva,NY14456 PH:315-787-2404;CELL:315-521-0852 FAX:315)787-2216;[email protected]
CornellDirector Dr.TerenceRobinson,NYSAES 630W.NorthStreet HedrickHall,Room125,Geneva,NY14456 PH:315-787-2227;CELL:315-521-0435 [email protected]
Director PeterFleckenstein,MarshallS.SkiffOrchards 4472CherryValleyTpk.,LaFayette,NY13084 PH:(315)436-1045;CELL:(315)664-0391 [email protected]
Director DanSievert LakeviewOrchards,Inc. 4941LakeRoad,Burt,NY14028 PH:716-778-7491(W);CELL:716-870-8968 [email protected]
Director RoderickDressel,Jr.,DresselFarms 271Rt208,NewPaltz,NY12561 PH:845-255-0693(W);845-255-7717(H) CELL:845-399-6767 [email protected]
Director RobertDeBadts,LakeBreezeFruitFarm 6272LakeRoad,Sodus,NY14551 PH:315-483-0910(W),315-483-9904(H) CELL:585-739-1590 [email protected];(Summer–useFAXonly)
Director PeterBarton 55AppleTreeLane,Paughquag,NY12570 PH:845-227-2306(W);845-227-7149(H) CELL:845-656-5217 [email protected]
Director DougFox,D&LVenturesLLC 4959FishFarmRd.,Sodus,NY14551 PH:315-483-4556 [email protected]
Director JohnIvison,HelenaChemicalCo. 165S.PlattSt,Suite100 Albion,NY14411;PH:585-589-4195(W) CELL:585-509-2262 [email protected]
Director ChuckMead,MeadOrchardsLLC 15ScismRd.,Tivoli,NY12583 PH:845-756-5641(W);CELL:845-389-0731 [email protected]
APPLE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD 2011
Chairman WaltBlackler,AppleAcres 4633CherryValleyTpk.Lafayette,NY13084 PH:315-677-5144(W) [email protected]
AlanBurr 7577SlaytonSettlementRoad,Gasport,NY14067 PH:585-772-2469;[email protected]
SteveClarke 40ClarkesLane,Milton,NY12547 PH:845-795-2383;[email protected]
RodFarrow 12786KendrickRoad,Waterport,NY14571 PH:585-589-7022
MasonForrence 2740Route22,Peru,NY12972 PH:518-643-9527;[email protected]
TedFurber,CherryLawnFarms 8099GLoverRd.,Sodus,NY14551 PH:315-483-8529
DanMcCarthy NYStateDept.ofAgriculture&Markets 10BAirlineDrive,Albany,NY12235 PH:518-457-8857;[email protected]
PeterTenEyck,IndianLadderFarms 342AltamontRoad Altamont,NY12009 PH:518-765-2956;[email protected]
RobertDeemer,Dr.Pepper/SnappleGroup 4363Rte.104 Williamson,NY14589 PH:315-589-9695ext.713
NYS BERRY GROWERS BOARD MEMBERS
Chair DaleRiggs,StonewallHillFarm 15370NYRt22,Stephentown,NY12168 PH:518-733-6772;[email protected]
Treasurer TonyEmmi,EmmiFarms 1572S.IvyTrail,Baldwinsville,NY13027 PH:315-638-7679;[email protected]
ExecutiveSecretary PaulBaker 3568SaundersSettlementRd.,Sanborn,NY14132 CELL:716-807-6827;FAX:(716)219-4089 [email protected]
JimBauman,BaumanFarms 1340FiveMileLineRd.,Webster,NY14580 PH:585-671-5857
BobBrownIII,Brown’sBerryPatch 14264RooseveldtHighway,Waterport,NY14571 PH:585-682-5569
BruceCarson,Carson’sBloomin’Berries 2328ReedRd. Bergen,NY14416 PH:585-494-1187;[email protected]
JimCoulter,CoulterFarms 3871N.RidgeRoad,Lockport,NY14094 PH:716-433-5335;[email protected]
JohnHand,HandMelonFarm 533WilberAve.,Greenwich,NY12834 PH:518-692-2376;[email protected]
TerryMosher,MosherFarms RD#1Box69,Bouckville,NY13310 PH:315-893-7173;[email protected]
AlanTomion,TomionFarms 3024FergusonCornersRd.,PennYan,NY14527 PH:585-526-5852;[email protected]
NEW YORK Fruit Quarterly SUMMER 2011 • VOLUME 19 • NUMBER 2
SUMMER 2011 • VOLUME 19 • NUMBER 2ThispublicationisajointeffortoftheNewYorkStateHorticulturalSociety,Cornell University’s NewYork State Agricultural Experiment Station atGeneva, the NewYork State Apple Research and Development Program,andtheNYSBGA.
Editors TerenceRobinsonandSteveHoying Dept.ofHorticulture NewYorkStateAgriculturalExperimentStation Geneva,NewYork14456-0462 PH:315-787-2227 [email protected];[email protected] Subscriptions KarenWilson &Advertising NYSHS,630W.NorthSt.,Geneva,NY14456 PH:315-787-2404;FAX:315)787-2216 [email protected] Design ElaineL.Gotham,GothamCityDesign,Naples,NY PH:585-374-9585;[email protected] Production CommunicationsServices,NYSAES,Geneva,NY PH:315-787-2248;[email protected]
NEW YORK Fruit Quarterly
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This work was supported by the New York State Apple Research and Development Program.
