Pear Masterclass focuses on orchard management

2018 | Future Orchards® Pear Masterclass overview | APAL

This APAL overview brings together the orchard-management themes covered through the 2018 Pear Masterclass. The program focused on practical decisions that determine profitability in pear blocks, including canopy management, pruning, crop load, fruit quality, rootstocks and postharvest performance.

The Masterclass format combined specialist presentations with discussion of how management principles translate into Australian orchards. A recurring emphasis was that high-performing pear systems need balanced trees, good light distribution and management practices that produce consistent crops rather than excessive vegetative growth.

The page is useful as an entry point to the associated Pear Masterclass resources. Growers can use it to connect individual presentations on profitable production, storage and pruning with the larger objective of improving marketable yield and orchard efficiency.