Cherry
Michigan Cherry Industry Research Priorities 2024-25
Submitted by:
Cherry Marketing Institute
12800 Escanaba Drive, Suite A
Dewitt, MI 48820
- Current and Future Plant Protection Issues:
- IPM strategies for Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD)
- Disease protection (alternatives for increasingly difficult disease resistance to SDHI, SI, and QoI fungicides, including cherry leaf spot, brown rot, and mildew).
- Arthropod protection (Plum curculio, cherry fruit fly, mites, OBLR, San Jose Scale, Trunk borers, and nematodes) via chemical and IPM efforts, basic biology, and genetics.
- Climate Change resiliency (drought, winter hardiness, and bloom time)
- Addressing soft fruit via orchard nutrient management, rootstocks, plant growth regulators, and photosynthesis.
- MRL issues that impact the export markets
- Breeding program (particularly leaf spot and armillaria resistance)
- Orchard replant issues, including nematodes and soil health
- Abandoned orchards
- Current and Future Marketing Priorities
- New products and expanded uses of cherries-both sweet and tart cherries
- Cherry pits and ways to reduce them in finished product
- Production trends worldwide by variety for tart cherries
- Varieties and production practices to discover or improve marketable traits, i.e., firmer texture, nutraceutical content, larger size, fresh market, sugar/acid balance, color, etc. (ex., high-density plantings)
- Production development (IPM/Sustainability)
- Market research
- Research and development of pet food products containing cherries
- Other Current Production Issues
- Computerized weather station network upgrading
- Wildlife management issues in tree fruit
- Fruit sweet, growth regulators
- Bacterial canker
- Irrigation efficiency
- Frost protection/delayed bloom
- De-fruiting young trees
Last Updated: August 2024
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