BLUEBERRY CONFERENCE • JANUARY 27, 2015

The annual Blueberry Conference will be held January 27 at the Red Lion Hotel on the River in Portland. The program begins at 8:30 a.m.

Topics covered include blueberry markets and trends, production technology, new information on spotted wing drosophila control and final reports on Oregon Blueberry Commission funded research projects.

• Blueberry Production Summary and Trends
• Recap and Projections of the Blueberry Market
• Labor and Immigration Speakers
• USHBC’s Public Relations Program
• Research Updates
• Professional Dinner Speaker Jolene Brown
Sponsored by Northwest Farm Credit Services
• Your Conference name tag
also serves as entry to the NW Ag Show
• And much more!

Register online at: oregonblueberry.com/conference

Make your hotel reservations directly:
RED LION HOTEL ON THE RIVER AT JANTZEN BEACH
909 N Hayden Island Drive, Portland
Phone: (503) 283-4466

Please inform reservations you will be attending the Oregon Blueberry Conference to receive the special rates. Reservations received after January 5, 2015 may not be available at the convention room rate.

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BLUEBERRY SCHOOL • MARCH 16-17, 2015

The OSU Blueberry School, scheduled March 16 and 17, 2015 on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, will include two full days of presentations, announced OSU Extension Berry Specialist Bernadine Strik. And the first evening will include a dinner and social event.

Strik said that she and others are working on the agenda for the first OSU Blueberry School since 2007. The agenda will be posted on a website being prepared for the event.

The school will have a focus for Northwest growers, she said, and will focus on Extension presentations, rather than research reports. A book of informational material will be available for distribution.

The event will include “cutting edge information for beginning and advanced growers, as well as those focused on conventional and organic production methods,” she said.

“We will provide more information as we move forward with the planning of this event,” Strik said. “In the meantime, please mark your calendars. We hope you will be able to attend.”