Events Thursday

ECA  ANNUAL MEETING

Exotic Conifer Association

Thursday, August 3rd 2023

Hosted by Paul & sherrill Schottler at

St Croix Valley Christmas Trees - Somerset, Wisconsin

Thursday farm tours and demonstrations will cover:

• Seed Orchard Pollination Techniques

• Cone Harvesting, Drying, Processing

• Insect and Weed Control

• ID and Control of Root Disease

Agenda

 8:00      Registration  (Coffee & Donuts)

8:30  Welcome and Farm/Nursery History - the Downey's

9:00 Conifer Insect News, Dr. Richard Cowles, CT. Ag. Station

10:00 Controlled Pollination of Abies - Larry & Jimmy Downey

• Picking Parents, Scouting for pollen

• Covering immature cones

• Harvesting and processing pollen

• Identifying receptive female cones

• Injecting receptive female cones with pollen

• Record keeping

 12:00     Box Lunch and ECA Business Meeting

  1:00 Harvesting & Processing Conifer Cones/Seed - Downey's

• Ready to pick test?  Is later better?

• Air drying cones & seed

• Separating & cleaning seed

• Seed testing & storage

• Record keeping

2:30 Weed Control News - Dr. Jatinder Aulakh, CT Ag. Exp. Station

3:30 Conifer Root Disease - ID & Control - Dr. Justin WhiteHill, NCSU 

6:00     ECA Dinner and Social at local restaurant (tbd)

Complete the attached registration form here or online and the 2022 ECA Membership form here.

                     Lodging REcommendations:

Delta Hotels by Marriott, Sherbrooke: 1-819-822-1989

HoTeL Gouverneur, Sherbrooke: 1-888-910-1111

Hotel Le President, Sherbrooke: 1-800-363-2941

CONTACTS:

• Downey Tree Farm Office: 1-819-566-0319  or  1-819-842-3449

• Jimmy Downey: 1-819-212-0333

• Larry Downey: 1-819-678-5329