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Hi Lisa: I have experimented with transplanting Hazels. They were quite a bit older but made it through the process. They were pretty shocked and it took them over a year to bounce back. Haven’t had any production on them yet and it’s been almost 3 years. Not sure that the oaks would be as forgiving. My experience like with so many truffle situations
“it depends’
::Hi Kathleen
I love love love my Felco Pruners. We purchased the 822 model. I think it depends on the age of your trees as we had some larger diameters branches that needed to be removed. There is a semi open setting that allows you to close the blade 50% for smaller cuttings and to save the battery and time. I do not notice the weight as a problem.
We purchased the extension pole at 1.5 meters. Again with the older trees we needed the additional height to top some of our oaks. Definitely recommend the double battery as well. To date we have pruned 2 hazelnut fields for a total of 87,000 cuts-yes thousand cuts. It’s was completed in 80 hours averaging over 1,000 cuts per hour. The blue tooth app for these details is easy to set up and pretty cool to see your efforts and it also reminds you to sharpen, adjust blades as well as times to service. What use to take us a couple of months now is only a couple of weeks. It is the best justification of a labor saving device that I have found. The cost has already paid for itself in one season. In addition the savings of the physical cost, wear and tear on the body vs using hand shears and loppers can’t be denied.
I would highly recommend this equipment for anyone that needs to prune trees!
Staci
::Hi Michael.
I concur with Fabrice that there is an education process with Chef clients. In my experience with our CA grown T.Mel (Perigords) the right Chef is willing to pay a premium for a fresh locally sourced organically grown Truffle. The bigger issue for us has been the ability to provide a consistent supply during the peak seasons of Holidays. This year has been an exception of course with restaurant closures and Covid. I began importing to supplement this dilemma so I don’t have to turn my clients to competitors also importing. I think that Olivia Martin might speak to this in her upcoming webinar on NATGA. It would be great to have some type of collaboration amongst the growers like a clearing house where we can supplement each others orders and work together to promote our locally grown and sourced North American Truffle. -
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Fran Angerer
What was the outcome of this grant?
Staci O'Toole
Hi Fran.
If you click on the title it will take you to the details regarding the grant and it’s outcome.
The Primaries were Jeannine Davis and Inga Meadows. Although the research task force was not established yet there is quite a bit of information and details. If I remember correctly it helped establish their lab at NC State
Paul Beckman
Extremely well done. One of the issues that is confusing is that when Mark and I took soil samples on my Bianchette orchard. Both years the soil probe went through mature truffles in November. 100 percent truffle present. My guess is that soil samples should only be done in June This was caused by funding limitations at the time that affected our schedule.. Another area that needs to be explored is the multiple tubers in one sample. We were trying to get Western Labs Parma Idaho to develop this but timing didn’t work out. They can test for 6 nematode types in each sample. Only needs a tablespoon of soil. Seemed like reasonable way to test a lot of orchards.
Fabrice Caporal
A nice problem to have, too many truffles!
Alex Poole
Great overview
Holly Martin
Would have been nice to have an end time on Sunday for booking travel
Jeffrey Coker
1. This proposal is almost verbatim the UNECE Standard FFV-53 with some added (somewhat complicating) language about the percentages of classes that can be exposed by trimming and a couple of other things. Why not just endorse the UNECE standards and prevent the confusion of having yet another set of standards? [In our case at Burwell Farms, we are also being inspected by the state of NC and following both state and USDA food safety and packaging rules.]
2. The stated purpose of the proposal is to “standardize the quality requirements for use of the NATGA logo”. Is logo use currently a problem? Are we talking about use of the NATGA logo only on food packaging, or also on grower websites? If a grower chooses not to use NATGA’s class system, then should they remove the NATGA logo from all their materials?
Holly Martin
Species: Since both T. Gibbosum and T. Oregonense are described as Oregon White Truffle, it might be useful to include seasonal designation, i.e. Oregon White Truffle (Spring) for T. Gibbosum and Oregon White Truffle (Winter) for T. Oregonense.
II.C (iv): This is just a drafting suggestion. I found the second sentence, as organized, a little hard to follow. My suggested text has all the same information, just reorganized: Provided the truffles retain their essential characteristics as regards the quality, the keep quality and presentation, the following defects may be allowed: defects in shape, defects in development, defects in coloring, superficial bruising, and slight superficial damages caused by pests.
Over all, nice job and thanks for all the good work!
Karen Passafaro
I would add a few pictures of what you are recommending with packaging and labels
Fabrice Caporal
I like the Identification requirement. Now do those classification apply to a member of NATGA importing and reselling truffles? What then should be done with identification?
Fabrice Caporal
I never heard of the Icon class, interesting
Fabrice Caporal
Weight and shape characterizations do not apply uniformly across species. It looks like the document is centered around T. melanosporum. It would be a great challenge to find a 300g oregon truffle… another example is that Tuber magnatum is rarely round.
Fabrice Caporal
In Definition of Produce we say “species of the the genus Tuber” yet in the list of truffles below we proceed to include Oregon truffles which are not of the Tuber genus. I would be in favor of changing the definition of truffle to say what is in Wikipedia:
Or if we want to be less scientific we could say:
Fabrice Caporal
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Fabrice Caporal
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Bryan Denig
Such a great webinar from Christine. I am very appreciative that the webinar recordings are being posted for those of us who are interested but unable to attend live. Looking forward to the others!
Raymond and Bernadine Prince
please put Raymond on your list of participants for the Webinar
Fabrice Caporal
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Fabrice Caporal
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