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Fruit for the Future 2017

Industry event
13 July 2017, 4pm to 7pm, Free
at the James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA
for farmers, agronomists, food and drink industries and scientists
Fruit for the Future

Fruit for the Future is one of the James Hutton Institute’s most successful and long-running industry events and is aimed at farmers, agronomists, representatives of the food and drink industries, scientists and others interested in soft fruit.

Following the success of last year's return to the more traditional "evening fruit walk", we'll repeat the format this year. We prefer to take advantage of the season and deliver outdoor demos in the field and walk through the raspberry and blackcurrant plots. The scientific talks/presentations and project updates are still an essential part of our soft fruit events programme so these are now the focus of our SSCR Soft Fruit Winter Meetings held in February of each year.

Registration

While this is not a prerequisite to attending, pre-registering will ensure we arrange enough catering for everyone as well as speeding up the registration process on the day. Please click the online registration form below:

Online Registration link

Programme

  • 4.00pm Registration and SWD Clinic drop off
  • 4.15pm Welcome
  • 4.30pm Tour of the demo and trial plots
  • 6.30pm SSCR prize draw
  • 6.35pm Raspberry selection taste test and cream tea

PDF file: FFF2017 programme (91KB)

Demonstrations, displays and dialogue

  • Mycorrhizal fungi – the good guys - Andy Taylor, James Hutton Institute
  • 500-year old crop, modern tools; blackcurrants – what’s new? - Dorota Jarret, James Hutton Ltd
  • New selections from the Raspberry Breeding Programme - Nikki Jennings, James Hutton Ltd
  • Hyperspectral Imaging - Dominic Williams, James Hutton Ltd
  • Blueberry research at the James Hutton Institute - Susan McCallum, James Hutton Institute

Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) Clinic

Launched at Fruit for the Future 2016, we're continuing to run our SWD Clinic, which forms part of the UK SWD monitoring project jointly funded by RESAS and AHDB, and invite growers to submit a maximum of two samples of soft fruit from their own farms for testing. There will be no charge for this.

If you would like your fruit tested for the presence of SWD, please bring approximately 200g of fruit (raspberries, strawberries, cherries etc.) to the event. *All fruit should be presented in a clear, sealed plastic bag and delivered on arrival at the James Hutton Institute. The SWD team will take your sample where it will be given an individual number and securely stored for testing. Email contact details will be required so that the result of the test can be sent to you in confidence.

*Freshly picked, i.e. no earlier than the day before the event and chilled

We look forward to seeing you (and your fruit!) at the event.

Alison Dolan

Location

The event is being held at the James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie and directions can be found below.

Contact

If you have any queries, please contact: Pam Cassidy, Events Co-ordinator, The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA. Email: events@hutton.ac.uk, Tel:01382 568 751.


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