Ensure you have the pick of the crop this season.

Support the success of your tree fruit operation with practical research-tested best practices from industry experts at the 2024 Commercial Tree Fruit School. This year’s program features a wide range of topics to help growers meet the challenges of commercial fruit production in Southwestern Illinois, including apple and peach insect and disease management updates, climate's impact on production, biorational insecticides and fungicides, and tick awareness and surveillance tools. Industry representatives will also be on hand to talk about their latest products and services.

Registration Details

• $35 per person for advanced registration on or before February 1.
• $50 per person for registration after February 1.
• All registration fees include lunch.

Agenda

• 7:45 AM: Registration Begins
• 8:30 AM: 2024 Climate Prediction
  Trent Ford, State Climatologist, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois
• 9 AM: Peach Disease Updates
  Mohammad Babadoost, Professor and Extension Crop Sciences Specialist, University of Illinois
• 9:30 AM: Tree Fruit Insect Update
  Karuna Kafle, Crop Sciences Research Assistant, University of Illinois
• 10 AM: Break with Vendors
• 10:30 AM: Illinois Statewide Tick Surveillance Program
  Holly Tuten, Associate Vector Ecology Scientist, Prarie Research Institute, University of Illinois
• 11:00 AM: The 2023 Season in Review
  Rick Weinzierl, Weinzierl Fruit and Consulting, LLC; Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois
• 11:30 AM: Apple Disease Update
  Mohammad Babadoost, Professor and Extension Crop Sciences Specialist, University of Illinois
• Noon: Lunch
• 1 PM: Perennial Cankers
  Janna Beckerman, Professor and Extension Plant Pathology Specialist, Purdue University
• 1:30 PM: Biorational Insecticides
  Ken Johnson, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension
• 2 PM: Break with Vendors
• 2:15 PM: Biorational Fungicides
  Janna Beckerman, Professor and Extension Plant Pathology Specialist, Purdue University

• 3:15 PM: Conference Adjourns