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Protected Cover and Canopy Management Workshop with Dr Greg Lang (Orange)

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The Extension and Communication project team are excited to be hosting Dr Greg Lang from Michigan University in August for some protective cover and canopy management workshops in Orange NSW, while he is in Australia for the Fruit Growers Victoria Conference  

The workshops will focus on management under protective covers, what considerations growers should be making in these systems, and how canopy management can be altered. 

10 am

Welcome and Introduction

Jess Fearnley

10:05 am

NSW Cherry Climate Vulnerability

Jane Kelley and Paris Capell

10:30 am

NSW Protected Cropping in Cherries Work

  • Introduction to the site
  • Sensors that we deployed.
  • Season 1 results

Summer Song and Jess Fearnley

10:50 am

Grower stories and using nets

Jess Fearnley

11:00 am

Morning Tea

11:15 am

Protected Covers and Canopy Management

  • What are the best covers?
  • What are the considerations when using covers
  • Considerations with canopy management under covers
  • New training systems and rootstock interactions.

Greg Lang

12:00 pm

Lunch and discussions

12:30 pm

Orchard Visit 

Jess Fearnley and Greg Lang

2:30 pm

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Jess Fearnley

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