Summer Horticulture Day 2003

Viticulture Summer Meeting●Summer Orchard Day●Summer Vegetable Day

June 27-28, 2003

Farm tours – Food – Illinois Wines – Speakers – Demonstrations – Exhibits

Our Hosts:

Collver Family Winery

South of I-72 (Exit 20)

Barry, Illinois

Apple Basket Farms

North of I-72 (Exit 20)

Barry, Illinois

A two-day Illinois Summer Horticulture Day is set for Friday, June 27, and Saturday, June 28, near Barry, in Pike County. This meeting is co-organized and co-sponsored by the Illinois Grape and Wine Resources Council, Illinois Grape Growers and Vintners Association, Illinois State Horticulture Society, Southern Illinois University, University of Illinois, and the Illinois Department of Agriculture. The field day will focus on marketing, up and coming varieties, weed and pest control and horticulture crop producers.

Friday's program begins at 2 p.m. and includes a tour to Bellview Vineyard, Pea Ridge Elk Farm and Collver's Family Winery, dinner and presentations on Illinois horticultural crops, industry needs and cider contest results. Friday registration is $25 with limited seating on a first-come, first-served basis.

Saturday's program starts at 8 a.m. and includes agritourism, senior farmers market nutrition program, variety updates, weed and pest updates, vineyard practices, exhibitors, vineyard and winery tour and lunch featuring Illinois Wine. Advance registration is $30, $25 for additional guests; $40 and $35 at the door.

If you require overnight accommodations for June 27th, we can offer suggestions.

Name: Ice House Inn Hannibal Inn BJ's Guest Houses (Jean Crader)

Address: 142 Smith Street 4141 Market 202 E. Quincy

Town: Barry, IL 62312 Hannibal, MO 63401 Pleasant Hill, IL 62366

Telephone: 217/335-3377 573/221-6610 217/734-2332

Cost: $62.54 incl tax $77.68 incl tax $38, 1^st person, $12 others

Holding: 23 20 House- 2-3 bedroom, 1-2 bedrooms

Reserve by: June 20 June 13 First-come, first-served

Summer Horticulture Day 2003

Viticulture Summer Meeting ● Summer Orchard Day ● Summer Vegetable Day

Friday 27 June

2:00 – 5:30 pm Ag. Tour - load buses at Collver Family Winery in Barry and drive to Belleview HollowVineyard in Belleview; next stop at Pea Ridge Elk Farm; next stop back to Apple Basket Orchard in Barry; final stop at Collver Family Winery in Barry.

6:00 pm Dinner and presentations at Collver Family Winery

§ Importance of Hort Crops in IL – M. Babadoost / A. Walters

§ Hort Crops Industry Needs – Richard Tanner

§ Cider Contest Award

Saturday 28 June

8:00 am Registration and Coffee

8:30 am Welcome and Introduction

8:45 am Agri-Tourism in Illinois – Cindy Fleischli (Illinois Bureau of Tourism)

9:15 am Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program – Robin Orr (UIUC)

9: 35 am High Quality Apple Varieties for Retail Marketing– Steve Doud (Doud Orchards)

10:00 am Break

Disease/Insect Display presented by M. Babadoost R. Weinzierl

Visit Exhibitors

10:30 am Current and Future Grape Varieties – Patrick Byers (SWMSU)

11:00 am Herbicide Resistance in Orchards and Vineyards – B. Young (SIUC)

11:15 am Calibration of Herbicide Sprayers – B. Young (SIUC)

11:45 am Lunch with Illinois Wines

Sponsors acknowledgment

Exhibitors visit

1:00 pm Load buses and drive to New Salem

§ Rolling Hills vineyard tour and wine tasting – Jim Nickell

§ Vineyard practices update – I. Dami (SIUC)

§ Vineyard pest update – M. Babadoost & R. Weinzierl

2:30 pm Load buses and drive back to Apple Basket Orchard in Barry

§ Orchard Tour - Jack Cruttenden

§ Apple variety showcase - Jack Cruttenden

§ Apple rootstocks - Jack Cruttenden

§ Asparagus culture – A. Walters (SIUC)

§ No-till/ herbicides for pumpkin – A. Walters (SIUC)

§ Orchard pest update – M. Babadoost and R. Weinzeirl (UIUC)

4:00 pm Adjourn

Post Meeting Tour of Collver Family Winery

SUMMER HORTICULTURE DAY-2003

If paying by credit card, you may also register on-line at: www.dce.siu.edu

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Summer Horticulture Day-2003

Division of Continuing Education

Washington Square, Building C- MC6705

Southern Illinois University

Carbondale, IL 62901

Phone: (618) 536-7751

Fax: (618) 453-5680