East Malling Research

New Road
East Malling
Kent
ME19 6BJ
Tel : (+44) (0)1732 843833
Fax : (+44) (0)1732 849067

 

 
  East Malling Research Association
The knowledge transfer organisation of East Malling Research
EMRA is the principle conduit for the dissemination of knowledge and information from the internationally renowned East Malling Research. EMRA is a subscription-based organisation, which allows members to remain at the forefront of perennial horticultural R&D and best practice. Two-way dialogue through personal contact with EMR’s scientists on Members’ Days and at other meetings, will speed up the process by which you can learn and adopt the results of research, keeping you abreast of new developments and opportunities.


Membership will benefit those interested in the food, environment and land-based industries, particularly the soft fruit, tree fruit, hardy nursery stock and other non-food crop sectors. EMRA’s Membership currently has a constituency that includes horticultural advisors, growers, land owners, food producers, retailers, researchers and agricultural manufacturers.

Benefits of membership:
• May attend EMRA meetings, workshops, conferences, grower walks and receive information at significantly discounted prices.
• Minimum of three Members’ Day per annum. Events usually attract BASIS and NRoSO points.
• Receive EMRA Newsletters, Members’ Day reports and other publications.
• Access to EMRA website Members’ area.
• Access to EMR’s extensive horticultural library by prior arrangement.
• Overseas Members receive the same benefits as UK residents.

Subscription Fees:

EMRA individual Member
 		 £30 inclusive of VAT
 
Student Member
 		 £20 inclusive of VAT
 
Over 65 Member
 		 £20 inclusive of VAT
 
Overseas Member individual member £40


 

 

For more information or to become a Member, please contact the Subscriptions Secretary on enquiries@emra.org.uk; Tel: 01732 843833; Fax: 01732 849067

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  East Malling Research Association

 

 

Schedule of events

 

2009

 
A Celebration of Bramley		 November
 
Food Issues
 		 Date TBC
 
EMRA/Marden Fruit Show Society Storage Day in association with ISAFRUIT
 		 24 March

 

 

2008


Soft Fruit Day
 		 11 November
EMRA Seminars at the National Fruit Show 16 October
Novel Crops Day 2 October

EMRA/HDC Strawberry Walk
 		 17 June

EMRA/Marden Fruit Show Society Storage Day
 		 31 March

 

 

2007


Zero Residues Day
 		 6 December

"A Day of DNA"
 		 8 November

EMRA/Marden Fruit Show Society Storage Day
 		 27 March

 

 

2006

Improving crop water use efficiency 30 November
EMRA seminars at the National Fruit Show 19 September
Hop day 22 August
Top fruit storage, in association with the Marden Fruit Show Society 30 March
Environment Day 26 January

 

 

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EAST MALLING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

MEETING ON IMPROVING CROP WATER USE EFFICIENCY

Thursday 30 November
East Malling Conference Centre
10.00am - 4.00pm

All crops require water in order to produce a harvestable yield. In water-limited environments or where irrigation is restricted or expensive, water use efficiency affects profitability and the environmental sustainability of production. This meeting focuses on the use of water applicable across a range of sectors including agriculture, fruit growing and nursery stock production.

Invited speakers come from a range of related businesses and organisations. They include:

  • Steve Oakes, Environment Agency, - MedCon and abstraction licences

  • Lee Dance, Mid Kent Water - Water resources in Kent

  • Dr Jerry Knox, Cranfield University - Irrigation and options for growers

  • Dr Matthew Bell, Defra - A new research programme concerning water use in agriculture

  • Dr Eric Ober, Broom’s Barn, Rothamsted Research - Breeding methods to accelerate the development of new varieties with improved water use

 As well as these invited speakers, several presentations from East Malling Research will cover topics such as efficient use of water in strawberry growing, the East Malling Water Centre (which provides data of interest to the hardy nursery stock industry) and pruning street trees and shrubs in amenity planting to reduce water use.   

Interested EMRA Members, non-Members and the press are welcome to attend at a cost of £10 for Members of EMRA, or £20 for non-Members.   Morning coffee, a buffet lunch and tea in the afternoon will be provided.

For more information or to book a place, please contact:
Miss Jean Hodges, Tel: 01732 523724; E-mail: jean.hodges@emr.ac.uk

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EMRA SEMINARS AT THE NATIONAL FRUIT SHOW

KENT COUNTY SHOWGROUND

16 October 2008

10.30am Astor Pavilion

 

Topics for discussion

  • Best practice in canker control - Dr Angela Berrie

  • Timing and efficacy of insecticides for control of apple mussel scale –  Dr Michelle Fountain

  • Adjusting dose to suit crop – Prof. Jerry Cross

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EMRA MEMBERS’ DAY

Novel Crops

Thursday October 2nd  2008

East Malling Conference Centre

 

Programme

 

 

10.00 am         Coffee and Registration

 

The Chairman for the morning will be Dr Colin Gutteridge, East Malling Research

 

10.30                Climate change and the need to rethink which crops          Dr Chris Atkinson

we should be growing in the UK   )                                   EMR

 

                        Minor and novel fruit crops for the UK                               Feli Fernandez

                                                                                                             EMR

 

                        The broader benefits of growing 'exotic' vegetables           Emma Hockridge

                                                                                                            Soil Association

 

                        Apricot growing in the UK                                                Will Sibley

           

 

                        The Solanaceae - a Wealth of Resources                          Dr John Samuels

                                                                                    Incredible Crops                                                                                                

12.35 pm         Lunch

 

The Chairman for the afternoon will be Dr Chris Atkinson, East Malling Research

 

1.30 pm            Novel fruit crops practical advice                                      Clive Simms

                                   

 

                        Marketing Novel food crops                                             Chris Jones

                                                                                                            Food Standards Agency                         

                        Artemisia as an anti-malarial                                           Colin Hill

                                                                                   

                                                                                   

                        The versatility of Hops                                                    Dr Yannick Ford

                                                                                    Botanix                                                                                                             

                        Woad as an Indigo crop                                                  Prof Philip John

                                                                                    Reading University

 

                        General Discussion

 

4:00 pm           Tea and Depart

 

For more information or to request a booking form for this event, please contact Penny Greeves, Communications Officer, 01732 843833; penny.greeves@emr.ac.uk

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EMRA Top Fruit Storage Members’ Day

 

in association with

 

Marden Fruit Show Society

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East Malling Conference Centre

 

 

Tuesday 24 March 2009

 

 

 

Members of EMRA and the MFSS are cordially invited to this combined event devoted to the control of storage rots in apple without the use of pesticides.  The morning includes the MFSS AGM and presentation of Society Prizes followed by presentations giving background information on the EU-funded ISAFRUIT project which involves more than 60 laboratories across Europe, the US and New Zealand and of which the fruit storage work forms a part.   During the afternoon session researchers from the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium will provide you with advice and practical knowledge based on the results of their research. Non-members may attend at a small extra cost.

 

Programme

 
10.00 Coffee and Registration  
10.30 Marden Fruit Show Society AGM  
  Other MFSS Business  
  Judges Report – Long term farm stored classes  
  Presentation of MFSS prizes  
  The ISAFRUIT project: Overview Dr Luca Corelli Grappadelli
  Consumer preferences for fruit and apple in particular: results of the ISAFRUIT consumer studies Dr Sharon Hall
12.50 Lunch  
13.50 Developing biocontrol treatments
Dr Haissam Jijakli
Gembloux Agricultural University, Belgium
 
Dutch tests of  biocontrol agents and hot
water treatments

 
Frank Schoorl
Wageningen UR, The Netherlands

 
  Effects of hot water on the quality of UK apples David Johnson, EMR
  Pathological effects of hot water and safe chemicals (GRAS) on UK apples Dr Angela Berrie, EMR
15.30 Tea and Depart  
 

Cost for Top Fruit Storage Day including lunch

EMRA/MFSS/ISAFRUIT project Members £10
Students £10
Non-EMRA Members £20
 

Deadline for returns is 17 March 2009

 
For more information or a booking form, please contract Dr Ursula Twomey, Communications Manager, EMR
Telephone: 01732 843833; E-mail: ursula.twomey@emr.ac.uk

 

 

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EMRA/HDC Soft Fruit Day

 

Technical Up-Date on Soft Fruit Research

 

Tuesday 11 November 2008

10.00am – 4.45pm

East Malling Research, Kent

 

 

 

 

HDC is currently using levy collected from soft fruit growers to fund 16 research projects that are aiming to resolve key problems faced by the industry. Seven of these projects are being undertaken at East Malling Research (EMR). This soft fruit technical day will provide members of EMRA and HDC with the latest results and progress being made in a range of projects being undertaken at both EMR and at other research sites.

 

The programme

 

10.00     Arrive & coffee

  • The latest strawberry varieties from EMR (David Simpson, EMR)

  • Research to reduce pesticide residues (Colin Gutteridge, EMR)

  • Raspberry zero residues – cane midge and aphids (Jerry Cross, EMR)

  • Raspberry zero residues – Botrytis (Xiangming Xu, EMR)

  • Strawberry production in food waste-derived composts (Phillippa Dodds, EMR)

12.30     Lunch

  • Improving water use efficiency and fruit quality in strawberry (Mark Else, EMR)

  • Control of strawberry powdery mildew under protection (Avice Hall, Herts University)

  • Pheromone technology for monitoring capsid bug (Michelle Fountain, EMR)

  • Foliar sprays for tarsonemid mite control in strawberry (Adrian Harris, EMR)

  • Improving management of leaf and bud mite in cane fruit (Carolyn Mitchell, SCRI)

3.20       Tea

  • Biology and control of western flower thrips in strawberry (Jean Fitzgerald, EMR)

  • Fungicides for blackberry downy mildew control (Erika Wedgwood, ADAS)

  • Biofumigant crops in strawberry (David Yohalem, EMR)

4.45       Tea & close

 

The event is free to EMRA and HDC members. If you would like to attend this event, please fill in the slip below and return to the HDC by Wednesday 5 November 2008. As numbers are restricted to 100, booking early is more likely to secure a place.

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I would like to attend the EMRA/HDC Soft Fruit Day on 11 November 2008

 

 ..........   HDC Member         ...........   EMRA Member (please tick)

 

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Please return this form to Anne Leipnik, HDC, Bradbourne House, East Malling, Kent, ME19 6DZ, Tel: 01732 848383 Fax: 01732 848498 by Wednesday 5 November 2008.

 

 

 

East Malling Research

New Road

East Malling

Kent

ME19 6BJ

 

Tel: 01732 843833  Fax: 01732 849067

 

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