Fruit School

Fruit School

Fruit School. I'm Greg Martin with today's Fruit Grower Report.

Registration is now open for WSU's 2015 Fruit School. Karen Lewis, WSU Extension specialist explains.

LEWIS: Fruit school is just an opportunity for those of us in the educational field to identify a timely subject and dig deep instead of just lots of subjects, relatively shallow and broad, right? The only way to do that is just really focus in, hunker down, in this case for a two-day period and take it from the top.

This years' school will focus on a variety of topics including basic pome fruit physiology; nutrient and water relations; the manipulation of tree growth; the physiology of stress on trees; and fruit quality.

LEWIS: A lot of our managers are Spanish speaking and probably have not attended school for tree fruit horticulture. They're going to sit side-by-side in the same room and get the same education so how we're doing that is we're offering English to Spanish simultaneous translational our locations in Washington.

The event will be simulcast to Richland and Yakima, Wash., and Hood River, Ore. Pre-registration is required and seats are limited.

LEWIS: We will shut down places once they fill up. I think that as people are interested in attending this fruit school that they really ought to sign up, sooner than later. But we will have to cut it off when it reaches capacity.

That's today's Fruit Grower Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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