Climate impacts on fruit quality

March 2019 | Presented by Steve Spark, AgFirst | Future Orchards® presentation

Steve Spark of AgFirst examines how climate affects the quality outcomes growers are trying to achieve in apple and pear orchards. APAL’s Future Orchards® archive identifies the presentation as a March 2019 resource focused on climate impacts on quality.

The topic is important because temperature, radiation, water availability, humidity and seasonal extremes can all interact with crop load and canopy management to influence fruit size, colour, maturity and marketability. Climate therefore needs to be considered alongside variety, site and orchard system when setting quality targets.

The archived PDF is not consistently text-accessible through APAL’s current web interface, so this page does not add unverified figures or treatment recommendations. The original presentation is embedded below so growers can review the complete source material directly.