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Measure that girth!

Posted in benchmarking, walnuts on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The benchmarking project has had a real boost by contracting Ivan Barnett to liaise with orchardists and carry out some field work.
May is the month for measuring trunk diameters. All orchardists can do this, and the more that do the better. By comparing the growth of trunk diameter per year with other orchards through the [...]

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NZWIG AGM Notice

Posted in NZWIG, events, walnuts on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

New Zealand Walnut Industry Group: Annual General Meeting
(up-dated)
Sunday 15 June, 2008
11am – Demonstration and presentation on benchmarking.
Learn how easily you can contribute to this important project.
Presenter: Graeme Nicholas.
Location: Frank and Margaret Brenmuhl’s property 129 Station Road, Aylesbury
Turn right onto Station Road (at Aylesbury corner) off the Main West Coast Road (as you’re heading away from [...]

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Tissue Culture

Posted in walnuts on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For those interested in finding out a little more about tissue culture (to be discussed at the forth-coming AGM as a way of introducing new cultivars to NZ). There is a useful introductory article with pictures here on the Texas A & M University website. It starts:
Tissue culture (often called micropropagation) is [...]

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