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NAFEX Annual Meeting 2012
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| NAFEX 2012 Annual Conference at a glance. Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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| NAFEX Pre-Conference Activities |
NAFEX Conference: talks Concurrent session #1: Breeding, germplasm & varieties |
NAFEX Conference Concurrent session #2 Growing and Using Fruits |
NAFEX Research tour & talks (Haskap Day) |
Saskatchewan Fruit Growers Association Summer Tour |
| Weds, July 18 U of SK Campus |
Thursday, July 19 Agriculture Building, U of SK Campus |
Friday, July 20 Horticulture Research Farm, U of SK campus |
Friday, July 20 Horticulture Research Farm, U of SK campus Saturday, July 21 Rural areas outside Saskatoon |
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| MORNING | ||||
| Canadian Seed Genebank Tour On U of SK Campus No Charge for this tours |
NAFEX | NAFEX | Tour of 30 acres of breeding & research orchards at the U of SK. Participants will be able to taste Haskap (honeyberries) & Saskatoons since they will be ripe. We will also see a dozen other crops including dwarf sour cherries, apples, hazelnuts, grapes, seabuckthorn, plums, etc. |
To be arranged:
Usually 2 or 3 farms are visited with at least one site being involved in fruit processing and/or retail sales |
| U of SK Breeding Program Overview Dr. Bob Bors, Tyler Kaban, U of SK |
Challenges and Advantages of growing fruits in Northern Regions Forrest Scharf, Saskatchewan Agriculture |
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| Seabuckthorn breeding and research Dr. Bill Schroeder, Ag. Canada |
Saskatoon Berry Basics TBA |
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| Backyard Breeders Forum Various NAFEX members |
Growing Dwarf Sour Cherries Dr. Bob Bors, U of SK & Growers |
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| AFTERNOON | ||||
| On campus tours of:
Agriculture Greenhouse Agriculture building No Charge for these tours |
Russian Fruits Jim Gilbert, One Green World, Oregon???? |
Northern Grape Growing Tom Plocker??? Pruning basics??? TBA |
Haskap Talks: Introduction to Haskap Dr. Bob Bors Honeyberry USA Bernice Ingvaldson |
Tour continues, should end around 2 to 3pm |
| Favourite Prairie Apples Darrell Fehr??? Thean Phen? |
Cider Research at U of SK Rick Sawatzky & Peter Reimer, U of SK |
Haskap in Russia Artem Sorokin, Vavilov Institute????? Haskap breeding in Oregon Maxine Thompson????? |
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| Varieties Forum Various growers and gardeners |
Cider and wine forum Various growers and gardeners |
Grower experiences & Research on Haskap Various Haskap Canada members |
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| Haskap Nutraceutical research James Dawson, PhD student |
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| NAFEX annual general meeting | Research on growing/breeding Haskap for warmer areas Eric Gerbrandt, PhD student | |||
| EVENING | ||||
| Banquet featuring Prairie Fruits* | Pizza and Posters** | Brags And Blunders*** | ||
The Annual conference for NAFEX 2012 is shaping up as seen above. The NAFEX meeting occurs on the last few days of a joint conference of Canadian Horticulturists, Agronomists, and Extension Agents. It is expected that several fruit breeders and researchers will be attending the Canadian Society of Horticulture Sciences Conference, and that they will have an additional concurrent session on Thursday . By the end of February we will be able to post additional talks to be given on July 19th.
NAFEX members interested in giving a talk or demonstration should e-mail Dr. Bob Bors, <bob.bors@usask.ca , with a title and brief summary (Abstract) of what they want to talk about. If we get too many interesting talks we may consider having more than two concurrent sessions. Registration costs will be $50/day in advance or $65 at the door for Thursday or Friday.
The cost for the tour on Saturday has not yet be determined by the SFGA, it will depend if enough interest is generated to rent a bus or not. It should all be finalized by late January and posted to the NAFEX website and University of Saskatchewan's fruit website www.fruit.usask.ca . The Canadian Seed Genebank, Agriculture Building, and Horticulture Research Farm are all located on Campus grounds at the University of Saskatchewan. There many hotels within a short drive. On campus housing at dorms will be also be available, likely at considerably lower costs.
Saskatoon does have an international airport which is normally 10 minutes away from the Campus (20 mins for rush hour) and 5 mins away from several hotels.
*The Banquet onWednesday is being organized by the 3 Canadian Societies, but we are welcome to sign up for it. The Saskatchewan Fruit program will be supplying fruit to be used in their event. That banquet will be on campus. There will be a separate charge for this event of $38.
**Pizza and Posters will be a social get together for NAFEX and SFGA. We’ll ask our Saskatchewan attendees to bring some pot luck desserts. The SK Fruit program will gladly supply Haskap, Cherries or Saskatoon berries to any local volunteer who wants to make something for this event. Various nurseries and fruit grower groups will have posters and materials on display. Some U of SK varieties will be on display for dessert.
*** Brags and Blunders will be an open forum on any fruit related topic that Members didn’t get to talk about earlier in the conference. A projector will be available to show picture files.
The University of Saskatchewan Fruit Breeding Program has been in existence since 1920. It is one of the coldest places (if not the coldest place) in the world where a large fruit breeding program is located. We may have the world’s best collections of Haskap/Honeyberries (Lonicera caerulea), Saskatoon berries (Amelanchier alnifolia) and interspecific tetraploid strawberries (Fragaria hybrids). Species that we are breeding on a small scale include: Clove/Missouri/Buffalo currents, plums, pears, raspberries, saskatoons, seabuckthorn). On a larger scale we are breeding Haskap, Dwarf Sour Cherries (Prunus cerasus X P. fruticosa), apples, hazelnuts, and grapes. Because of our location in Hardiness zone 2, we have cooperative projects in many cold places across Canada, Alaska, Norway, Begium, Russia, and Mongolia. More information is available at www.fruit.usask.ca . We have many cooperative projects especially with Saskatchewan growers who are growing seedlings for us and testing selections.
*The North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX) is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit entity. All donations are fully tax deductible (state and federal) as allowed by law. Please consult your tax advisor for further details.
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