01:00:36 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): @ Goshen College – ask John Mischler at Merry Lea Environmental Center
01:00:52 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): about hazelnuts
01:01:15 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): John is in West Virginia
01:10:57 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: From Eli: https://nutgrowing.org/annual-conference-2021/#97b1fe2f800e8e65b
Was discussed in pecan session at 2021 conference.
01:14:49 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: for best planned poultry silvoculture system check out Reginaldo Haslett-Mariquin at regenagalliance.com
01:15:24 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: From Dan L: Starks sells the James Pecan which is self fertile; but they market it under another name Delicious? from James Pecan Farm progeny in MO (?).
01:17:20 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: From Dan L. :
01:17:23 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: Winkler full American hazel selection is self fertile
01:21:26 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): @Sara / Karen – Eli asks how sod was managed after transplanting
01:23:09 Nicolas G: On Southern Indiana Farm Equipment & Livestock facebook group is a used Detco tree planter for sale.
01:24:00 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): Northern pecan resources:
01:24:03 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): http://northernpecans.blogspot.com
https://rockbridgetrees.com
01:25:04 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): Karen recommends the Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative:
01:25:05 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): https://www.midwesthazelnuts.org/
01:25:50 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: Karen / Sara : question from John Kelsely – Do you measure production from each tree
01:26:30 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: Karen / Sara: question from Stoni – Are you doing any pruning of chestnuts and hazelnuts?
01:30:07 Will Martin: can you speak more to the tradeoffs between seedlings and cultivar hazelnuts
01:35:34 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: From Dan L – question: as hazels get older 20 years+, does fruiting wood need to be renewed to maintain production
01:36:44 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: From Dan L. questions: what is the southern IN pecan nut size compared to southern grown pecans? what about yield per tree comparison.
01:39:33 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: Question from Dan L: are hazel planted too deep, they don’t get going if too deep. how about a mycorhizzal innoculant to help them get going. might use soil from a local wild filbert/hazel
01:41:02 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: For Dan L from Karen: renewal pruning optional when after 10+ yrs you notice that they’re lessening in yield. We have taken to eliminating the poor performers in our population and we have an ongoing basis, and we also will alternate mowing over a row to allow for the mowed row to have a couple of yrs to rejuvinate.
01:41:22 Sara D – Hazelnuts: @Sara / Karen – Eli asks how sod was managed after transplanting — We did a mixture of mulching around the trees and just leaving what was originally planted (alfalfa with unfortunately orchard grass which is horrible). Jason regularly mows in between the rows with his tractor and a Berti flail mower. Obviously to manage in between trees within the rows is too much for the two of us. The mulch rows have definitely seemed to perform better so if you have a generous arborist nearby we highly recommend that. We don’t recommend orchard grass at all. 🙂 Those rows are surviving somewhat but not thriving as much as the mulched rows.
01:41:58 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: Julia from EClerico – do you have an economic model constructed that supports the value chain?
01:42:13 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: From Karen Vanek to all: can be contacted via trees@forestag.com, on Facebook as Forest Agriculture Enterprises, instagram as forest.ag.nursery. Happy to help!
01:44:13 NAFEX / Kris Heeter, President: to Julia, that’s a great question, however, I’d like to pivot that to address in more detail via info@restorationag.com. Short answer is yes.
01:44:48 Karen Vanek: I would love to see more meetings like this that are focused on a single crop. Thanks for having us!
01:44:48 Dan Lefever: Jeanine Davis of Western North Carolinia State research station is the authority for hazel truffles. also a fellow by last name LeFever (no relation) in Oregon. you can not grow nuts and truffles on the same plants.
01:45:23 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): Indeed – many thanks Kris & everyone for having us and for showing up tonight.
01:46:45 Dan Lefever: only about one third of truffle plantings ever pan out economically after a $20,000 per acre investment
01:47:19 Karen Vanek: Wanted to share that this harvest season, in addition to only selecting seed from plants that bore nuts of 15mm on average, we identified 52 “elite” class plants. All of the elite class plants have survived -40ºF temps, show functional immunity to EFB, all have average nut diameters greater than 15 AND every single one of them exceeds the yield density of the UMHDI top 20 plants. They’re in the process of being vegetatively propaged.
01:47:52 Sara D – Hazelnuts: Thank you for having us! What a great organization with a wealth of knowledge – I really enjoyed the discussion among the members. And just a plug for Karen— she is a wonderful resource with a lot of expertise to glean from. We have enjoyed working with her!
01:48:11 Karen Vanek: please make sure Forest Agriculture Nursery is on there! forestag.com
01:48:12 Julia Valliant – Indiana Univ (she): @Karen 👏🏼!!
01:50:38 Dan Lefever: available to discuss the possibility of filling northern pecans faster by nutrition Dan at 484-318-3789 mobile
01:51:01 Debbie Milks: Thank you Kris for organizing
01:51:11 Bradley: Thanks so much
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