Meet
Your Ontario Apple Team
Leslie
Huffman,
Apple team leader
- Orchard Network newsletter,
editor
- OMAFRA Apple website
- New cultivars & improved nursery
trees
- Cost reduction, orchard mechanization, Improved fruit quality
Margaret Appleby,
IPM Systems
- New pests
eg. European Apple Sawfly
- New pesticides eg. GF-120*
- Fruit Tracker
software development
- IPM scout training
- International IPM Symposium
(program co-chair)
*Funded by the Ontario Apple Growers
Kathryn
Carter,
Pome Fruit Specialist
- IPM information &
scout training
- Pub 310, Apple IPM manual & workshops
- Models
for PC, OBLR, other new pests
- New pesticides eg. GF-120*
- CM resistance
testing*
*Funded by the Ontario Apple Growers
Michael
Celetti,
Plant Pathologist
- Black rot and chemical thinners
in Gala
- Blister spot in Mutsu
- IPM scout training, Apple IPM
Manual & workshop
- OFVC Fire blight workshop
- Scab resistance
management
John
Cline,
U. of Guelph Pomologist
- Management of new cultivars
eg. Ambrosia, Honeycrisp*
- Plant growth regulators eg. ReTain, Apogee,
Maxcel*
- High density orchard systems*
- Apple replant management
- Production
system for N. Spy
- Trickle irrigation, soil management, plant nutrition
*Funded by the Ontario Apple Growers
Jennifer
DeEll,
Fresh Market Quality
- Develop SmartFresh (1-MCP)
use recommendations*
- Evaluating 1-MCP orchard spray (Harvista)*
- Optimizing
storage/ handling of new cultivars*
- Collaboration with researchers and
universities across Canada and the United States
*Funded by the Ontario Apple
Growers
Jason
Deveau,
Application Technology
- Improved sprayer performance
- Anti-drift
technologies / strategies
- Innovative delivery systems
- Sprayer
calibration and set-up
- Informing buffer zone legislation
- Reducing
non-target exposure
John Henderson,
Risk Management
(Cider)
- Food safety/inspection/sampling
- Safe
production of sweet cider
- Prepares seminars, workshops and infosheets
- Cleaning
and Sanitation Program reviews
Christoph Kessel,
Crop Nutrition & Fertility
- Nutritional information
- Soil Fertility workshop, OFVC 2009
- Soil
Quality workshops
- Soil Phosphorus planting treatments
- Leaf analysis
and soil test recommendations
Helga McDonald,
Business Development
- Works with food and beverage processors
- Identify business opportunities
and challenges
- Help accessing business incentives programs
- Navigating
government regulations
Marilyn Sewell,
Market Regulations
- Works with the Farm Products Marketing Commission (enabling legislation
for regulated marketing)
- Direct link to the Ontario Apple Growers
- Facilitated
creating the OAG in 2004
Anne Verhallen,
Soil Management
- Orchard soil management systems
- Avoiding soil compaction
- Assessing
soil damage from wet harvest
- Soil Quality workshops
- Cover Crop
BMP Manual
Deborah Oliver,
Export Assistance
- Primary focus is fruit, vegetable and horticulture sectors
- Works
with prepared and dry ingredients, and grocery and snack foods
- Identifying
and maximizing food company's export opportunities
- Export market information
to expand their sales base
