2021 Meetings

1st RIFGA Annual Meeting – Zoom Meeting
March 25, 2021
Contact Heather Faubert for Zoom link: hhf@uri.edu

Speakers:
Wayne Barber, WNRI – Making a podcast
Business meeting

2nd RIFGA Twilight Meeting – Zoom Meeting
April 13, 2021 at 5:30

Guest speakers: UMass Fruit Advisors & Heather Faubert, URI
Learn about early season insects and diseases of concern to tree fruit growers.

One hour of Pesticide Recertification Credits available.

3rd UMass Twilight Meeting – Zoom Meeting
May 6, 2021 at 5:30

4th UMass Twilight Meeting at Cold Spring Orchard, 391 Sabin St., Belchertown, MA
IN PERSON!!
May 19, 2021 at 4:00

The UMass Extension Fruit Team will be holding its first-in-a-while IN PERSON Twilight Meeting, May 19, 2021 at the UMass Cold Spring Research Orchard from 4:00pm to 5:30pm. Since this is our first in post-COVID in-person meeting, please bear in mind there will be some new protocols in place. For example, food will not be provided, the University will require masks and social distancing, and we will be requiring symptom screening*. We are looking forward to seeing you all!

Pre registration is required.
Please use the following link to pre-register for this meeting:
Agenda (walking times may vary):
4:00 Fruit Team introductions.
4:10 The walking tour will begin at the parking lot and make its way down to “X-block”. We will stop in X-block to discuss: camera imaging, apple scab and various insect attract and kill methods. Along the way we will pass other research projects and invite you to pause to look at these and ask questions of the lead researchers who will be on hand to answer questions.
4:45 We will begin making our way back up to the main orchard building. On the way back, we will stop by a pear block to discuss psylla research being conducted. We will also pass the blackberry planting where new SWD trapping methods are being tested.

If you wish to request accessibility accommodations for this event, please use the form found here: https://www.umass.edu/disability/events

5:00 Arrive back at the main orchard building. Question and Answer session.
5:30 Adjourn.
*Provided the University approves the request for this meeting, you will receive an email with another google form containing COVID symptom self check questions. By filling this form out in advance, we can streamline the check in process and spend more of the meeting time on fruit production related issues. 
5th UMass Twilight Meeting – IN PERSON!!
Fruit twilight meeting, TUESDAY, June 8, 2021, 5:30 PM,

Honey Pot Hill Orchards, 16 Boon Hill Road, Stow, MA

Topics during orchard tour will include codling moth/apple maggot fly/brown marmorated stink bug/spotted wing drosophila management, NEWA weather station and models, Accede EUP thinning results, return bloom promotion using PGR’s. 1 Pesticide recertification credit will be available. A light dinner will be served.

6th Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Association Summer Meeting
July 14, 2021 from 10-3

Cold Spring Orchard, 391 Sabin St., Belchertown, MA