The Worldwide Fruit Tree Affiliation will maintain its 2025 Annual Assembly in Rochester, New York, Feb. 16–19.
IFTA’s 68th annual convention is known as “Choices, Choices: Information, {Dollars}, and Drive.” It should embrace two days of lectures and in the future of farm excursions. Tour stops will embrace Orchard Dale Fruit Farm, the place guests will find out about precision ag applied sciences, netting, economics, soil well being and beaver grafts; Two of Golf equipment Orchard, which is able to function high-value apples and membership varieties on tall spindle plantings; cherry netting at New Royal Orchards; and slender, two-dimensional plantings with limb tying at Zingler Farms, the place guests may also find out about coaching crews to understand detailed horticulture.
Brent Clothier of Plant & Meals Analysis in New Zealand will give the Robert Carlson Lecture on the dynamics of how water and vitamins transfer by orchard soils and timber.
Walter Guerra of Laimburg Analysis Centre in Italy will give the Wallace Heuser Presidential Lecture, offering highlights from Interpoma’s Orchards of the Future Symposium.
Registration for the convention is open. Early chook pricing ends Jan. 31. The convention resort is the Hyatt Regency Rochester. For extra info, go to: ifruittree.org.
—by Matt Milkovich
