09/06/05 Field day on fruits

09/06/05 Field day on fruits

It is an annual event for the University of Idaho's Parma Research Station. The pomology field day is designed to show off advances in several potential fruit crops&crops that could create value added to both the Idaho and Northwest ag economies as both potentially major industries and in niche markets. So says U of I researcher Essie Fallahi. FALLAHI: And we have been testing over seventeen varieties of table grapes for this area for the last fourteen years, or fifteen years in some cases. And also we have been testing with sixty-five varieties of peaches and nectarines. The station and its researchers will also show off alternative fruits to be grown both for edible and medicinal purposes. Technological advances will also be demonstrated. Those range from an experimental blossom thinning with promising results for apples, peaches, and plums to an experimental bioregulator for berries and research on how rootstocks play a part on age bearing of fruit on Gala apples FALLAHI: We are going to talk about different methods of irrigation and showing that we can have a huge saving of water. That we are using a portion of what we have been using traditionally and having excellent quality fruit.
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