Join us next week at the Illinois Arborist Association Annual Conference in Tinley Park Oct 21 & 22!
We will once again have a booth at the show. CEU’s for arborists will be available at the show and also at a quiz in our booth titled “Name That Tree”.
In addition to the booth, Becky Thomas will be presenting twice on Tuesday, Oct 21 with other OGA (Ornamental Grower’s Association) Growers & Green Industry Partners. At 9:15am, she will be presenting with Joe Rothleutner from Morton Arboretum & Mike Scheitz from Goodmark Nurseries. In their presentation, “New Tree Varieties” Joe will present his latest new tree variety research from the Morton Arboretum & Chicagoland Grows programs. His presentation will highlight new tree varieties you should know about as well as look into the tree breeding process. Mike & Becky will follow up with a local grower’s perspective on how some of those varieties are growing in their fields.
The next presentation will follow at 10:45am and consist of a panel discussion of growers titled “State of the Nursery Industry – Straight from the Growers”. Becky will be joined on the panel with other OGA Growers Ryan Doty, Dr. Phaedra Weiler, & Mike Scheitz. Adding to the panel will be Roger Purcell, a liner grower from J. Frank Schmidt Nursery in Oregon. The growers will share their experiences of winter damage this past year, the state of nursery inventories today, production timelines to bring a tree to market, where the future is headed for tree supply in their fields, and how we can work together to assure municipality needs are met.
A clip of the “State of the Nursery Industry” update can be found by clicking this link. Becky Thomas will begin the panel with an update on what has been happening throughout the US in nursery fields the past several years.
We hope that you can join us next week at the IAA Show. Click here for more about registering for this informative event for foresters & arborists.
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