The International Fruit Tree Association will hold its 2025 Annual Meeting in Rochester, New York, Feb. 16–19.
IFTA’s 68th annual conference is called “Decisions, Decisions: Data, Dollars, and Drive.” It will include two days of lectures and one day of farm tours. Tour stops will include Orchard Dale Fruit Farm, where visitors will learn about precision ag technologies, netting, economics, soil health and beaver grafts; Two of Clubs Orchard, which will feature high-value apples and club varieties on tall spindle plantings; cherry netting at New Royal Orchards; and narrow, two-dimensional plantings with limb tying at Zingler Farms, where visitors will also learn about training crews to comprehend detailed horticulture.
Brent Clothier of Plant & Food Research in New Zealand will give the Robert Carlson Lecture on the dynamics of how water and nutrients move through orchard soils and trees.
Walter Guerra of Laimburg Research Centre in Italy will give the Wallace Heuser Presidential Lecture, providing highlights from Interpoma’s Orchards of the Future Symposium.
Registration for the conference is open. Early bird pricing ends Jan. 31. The conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Rochester. For more information, visit: ifruittree.org.
—by Matt Milkovich
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