Ross Wilson IFTA presentation

February 2007 | Presented by Ross Wilson | International Fruit Tree Association conference presentation

This archived presentation records Ross Wilson’s contribution to the International Fruit Tree Association conference in February 2007. It sits within the early Future Orchards® period, when Australian growers and advisers were actively benchmarking local orchard performance against international production systems and management practices.

The presentation is retained as a historical reference for the industry’s productivity and orchard-system discussions at that time. It should be read in the context of the original conference material rather than as a current technical standard, particularly where varieties, rootstocks, costs or production benchmarks may have changed since 2007.

For library users, the value of this resource is its documentation of the ideas being exchanged between Australian orchard advisers and international tree-fruit specialists during the first years of Future Orchards®. It provides useful background for understanding how later program themes around intensive systems, monitoring, labour efficiency and orchard profitability developed.