NC140 Technical Committee Meeting

Hotel Champlain Burlington, 60 Battery Street Burlington, VT 05401
No v5-7, 2025

2025 Chair: Dr. Terence Bradshaw, University of Vermont
Administrative assistant: Natalie Forcier
2025 Recording Secretary: TBD, someone from the Cornell delegation

Tentative agenda

Weds, Nov 5: participants arrive at BTV Sunport at Burlington, VT

2:00pm – 5:00 pm
            NC-140 2026 rewrite subcommittee meets to develop a timeline for proposal development.

Dinner on your own

Thurs Nov. 6, 2025

8:30am-5:00pm

Welcome

Dr. Eric von Wettberg, Director of Agricultural Experiment Station at University of Vermont
Dr. Linda Prokopy, Dean of College of Agriculture and Life Science, University of Vermont
Anson Tebbetts, Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, Food, and Markets

Administrative Business
• Approval of agenda.
• Approval of 2024 NC140 meeting minutes
• Approval of new members
• Approval of site for 2026 meeting
• Selection of site for the 2027 meeting
• Report from administrative adviser, Dr. Troy Runge of University of Wisconsin

Website Report - Jon Clements

Rootstock Trial Coordinator Reports

• 2014 Honeycrisp Apple rootstock trial – John Cline
• 2015 Organic Apple rootstock trial – Terence Bradshaw
• 2017 Peach Rootstock trial – Ioannis Minas
• 2017 Tart Cherry rootstock trial – Kelsey Galimba
• 2017 Sweet cherry systems X rootstock trial – Brent Black
• 2019 Apple rootstock trial - Todd Einhorn
• 2023 Cider apple rootstock trial- Greg Peck
• 2025 Rootstock x Training trial – Ioannis Minas

• 2026 Cherry rootstock trial, Kelsey Galimba
• 2026 Apricot trial- Kathryn Carter
• 2026(?) Apple rootstock trial – Tom Kon

State reports
Communications

6:00pm 8:00pm

Group dinner

Friday Nov. 7, 2025

8:00am-11:30am

Project reauthorization

Open Discussion

12:00pm – 6:00pm

Tour the NC-140 organic Apple rootstock trial plot at UVM Horticulture Research & Education Center

• Remaining tour tba

7:00-7:30: back to the hotel. Dinner on your own.

Friday Nov. 8, 2024: Participants take the shuttle and depart from BTV airport.

Meeting Registration link and fee: tba.