About OKCGA - Join Us!

The OKCGA was formed in 1998 by a small group of cherry growers seeking to pool financial resources to increase research and development of cherry production in the region. Through a voluntary contribution of a penny per pound from each grower, significant gains have been made - not just in research, but in other areas, such as work to get minor use pesticide registrations approved, orchard and employment issues, and forums for growers. Since inception, over $225,000 in grower levy contributions has enabled us do many more times that value in research.

The OKCGA executive also contribute many hours on other matters, such as chemical registration, labor issues, taxation, and public relations for the cherry industry, field days and forums, and communications.

Growers are strongly urged to join and contribute the annual research levy to enable the OKCGA to do even more work in the future. Print out and mail in the attached membershipform.

Research Projects conducted in the last few years are listed below. Detailed reports marked green are available in full in the Members’ Area.

YEAR SUBJECT

2006 Increasing Efficacy of GA

2006 Cherry Storage

2006 Variations in Response to Management Treatments

2006 Control of Bacterial Canker in Nursery Trees

2006 Managing Insects Under Changing Insecticide Use Patterns

2006 Fungicide Use and Residue Study

2005 Identification of alternatives for IPM of cherry fruit flies

2005 Post harvest water quality

2005 Pesticide Monitoring 2000 Little Cherry Virus Test Dev.

2003-2005 Nutritional factors

2003-2005 Mildew / Fruit "leathering''

2004-2005 GF-120 Efficacy Testing

2004 Cherry Fruit Fly Dispersal

2004 Falconry for Control of Birds

2003-2005 Starling control

2003 Little Cherry Virus Survey

2001-2004 Cherry Fruit Fly

2001-2004 GA testing

2001-2002 German Little Cherry Virus

2002-2003 Brown Rot Test Development