Jan 14: Washington Cherry Institute Conferance

This annual event was held in the Yakima convention centre and provides northwest cherry growers an avenue to gather and discuss current events, topics included:

-Harvest Timing: The final touch to a perfect season
-UFO Cherries: A growers perspective
-Little Cherry Virus
-Spotted Wing Drosophila
-Mechanization and Automation in Cherry orchard systems
-Labour Issues
-The Harvest Housing calendar: projecting migrant farm worker housing needs for the cherry harvest
-2010 northwest cherry season market dynamics