Dear Colleagues,
The California Cling Peach Board is seeking research proposals for 2020-2021 funding period.
The Research and Statistics Committee of the California Cling Peach Board has the same research priorities as last year.
- Due to increasing costs and shortages of labor the highest research priority is for Labor/Cost Savings in production practices.
- The committee will be looking to fund innovative and sound research addressing this issue in both the short and the long term.
- The committee expressed particular interest in addressing harvest and thinning costs and the viability of pedestrian orchards for cling peach production.
- Additional issues in order of priority are: New Varieties, Disease Control and Insect Control.
Those interested in additional information regarding procedures for submitting research proposals can contact Janine Hasey (jkhasey@ucanr.edu or 530-822-7515), U.C. Liaison Officer, Cling Peach Board Research Advisory Committee.
Proposals should be submitted to Chris Zanobini (chris@agamsi.com), California Cling Peach Board, using the attached U.C. Project Plan/Proposal form by January 17, 2020.
The annual California Cling Peach Board Research Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 4, 2020, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 p.m. at the Sutter-Yuba UC Cooperative Extension meeting room at 142 Garden Highway in Yuba City. All principal investigators will be expected to make a brief oral presentation and answer questions related to their project at that meeting. Researchers funded in 2019 will also give a presentation on results at the Sacramento Valley Cling Peach Day on February 4, 2020 in the morning. Program to follow by early January 2020.
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)
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