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SUMMARY:[Webinar] Gregory Bonito: Truffle Farms of North America Databasing Project - Creating a resource for the North American Truffle Industry
DESCRIPTION:View Recording (Public Access)\nA team of researchers are conducting a survey of the North American Truffle Industry. \nNATGA sees this project as a way to assess the size of our industry\, when and where we are productive\, growing conditions that work (or don’t work). \nWe need this data to drive research priorities and funding; and eventually marketing strategies for the industry. In many ways\, it is also the beginning of an economic impact study. We need this information before we engage government or private entities for research and marketing funding and assistance. \nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n \n\n\n\n	\n\n		Dr. Gregory Bonito\n\n		Assistant Professor \n\n	\n\n	\n		\n			Assistant Professor of Mycology\, plant-fungal interactions\, truffle ecology\, & evolution of bacterial endosymbiosis in fungi. \nProf. Bonito studies ecology & evolution of plant-fungal-bacterial associations\, with a particular interest in below ground root associated fungi including truffles\, mushrooms & molds. These organisms provide important links between plants & soils & are functionally important to plant health & nutrition\, nutrient cycles\, & energy flows.…
URL:https://stage.trufflegrowers.com/event/gregory-bonito-truffle-farms-of-north-america-databasing-project-creating-a-resource-for-the-north-american-truffle-industry/
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SUMMARY:2020 Fall Annual Meeting (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Due to COVID-19 the Fall Congress will be held online on Sunday\, October 4th\, 2020 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT. \nThe program will include several short presentations\, a question and answer session\, and a short business meeting. \nThis event was open to the public.\nRecording available to members\n\nAgenda\n(Topics will be updated prior to the event.) \n\n1:00-1:20 pm – Opening Comments\n1:10-1:50 pm – Alyce Chapman\, CPA\, Anderson Group (California) – Let’s Improve Your Truffle Farm’s Tax Situation\n1:50-2:30 pm – Marcos Morcillo\, Micologia Forestal (Spain) – How Black Truffles Feed and Drink – The role of Soil Bacteria and a Case Study of Spanish Wells and Irrigation\n2:30-3:10 pm – Brian Malone\, Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards and Winery in Healdsburg (California) – Truffle Cultivation\n3:10 -3:20 pm – Dr. Shannon Berch – Update on the Truffle Cultivation Database Project and associated Survey\n3:20-4:00 pm – Q&A (Discussion Panel)\n4:00-4:10 pm – NATGA Business Meeting\n\nDetails:\n1:10-1:50 pm – Alyce Chapman- Let’s Improve Your Truffle Farm’s Tax Situation\nDuring this presentation we will provide some tax savings tips\, recordkeeping suggestions and ways to stay out of tax trouble! Hopefully\, we will have some fun and amusement along the way. \nAbout Alyce S. J. Chapman\, CPA\nAlyce began her accounting career in 1979 in California. She left California in 1996 to marry her junior high school sweetheart and moved to Eugene\, Oregon. Since 2012 she has been a partner at Anderson Group Certified Public Accountants in Corvallis\, Oregon working mostly in taxation. She is licensed in California and Oregon. Her true passion is working with small businesses and educating their owners. Being a farmer’s daughter\, she especially enjoys agricultural accounting. \nWhen she is not working Alyce enjoys spending time with her husband\, five large dogs and three cats on their thirteen acres on the Willamette River. \n1:50-2:30 pm – Marcos Morcillo – How Black Truffles Feed and Drink – The role of Soil Bacteria and a Case Study of Spanish Wells and Irrigation\nOur research center has been focused on two main topics: \n\ntruffle sexuality and reproduction\, and\n ecophysiology of truffle.\n\nMy lecture for the coming NATGA fall meeting will be related to this second topic. We´ll discuss the recent findings on how truffles get nutrients and water from soil and its implications on growing them. Moreover\, soil has a huge biodiversity and some bacteria play a major role in truffle feeding and development. We´ll explain the results of a 4 years project on bacteria & black truffles. \nAbout Marcos Morcillo\nMarcos Morcillo started to focus on mycorrhizas after graduating in Biology at the University of Barcelona (SPAIN) in 1995.\nIn 1998 he became director of Micología Forestal & Aplicada (MF&A at micofora.com)\, a private research centre focused in truffles. His centre also specializes in technology transfer\, involving leading licenced\nprojects abroad in order to create production nurseries for truffle and saffron milk cap infected trees. MF&A’s nurseries\, including Spain and those licensed in USA\, Chile\, Mexico and South Africa have collectively produced over a million truffle infected trees in the last 20 years\, thereby helping to establish and manage hundreds of truffle orchards in Europe and overseas. Moreover\, Marcos has his own truffle orchard with more than 4.000 trees\nproducing melanosporum and borchii. In 2006 Marcos wrote the quality standards to certify truffle infected trees for the Government of Andalucia (Spain). He has also published two books on truffle farming:\n– Manual de truficultura Andaluza. 2007. ISBN 978-84-935194-3-8\n– Truffle Farming Today\, a Comprehensive World Guide. 2015. ISBN 978-84- 617-1307-3\nHis center organizes annualy a technical truffle farming course held in Barcelona during one week\, barcelonatruffletour.com \n  \n2:30-3:10 pm – Brian Malone\, Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards and Winery in Healdsburg (California) – Truffle Cultivation\nAbout Brian Malone\nBrian Malone was born and raised in Monterey County\, California. He attended college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo\, California where he studied production agriculture and business management. In 2005\, he moved his family to Sonoma County\, California to work in the wine industry. After working as a Viticulturist for four years\, he began to oversee vineyard and landscape operations at Jackson Family Wines. He has grown ultra-premium winegrapes in Alexander Valley\, Sonoma Valley\, Bennett Valley\, Russian River Valley\, Chalk Hill and Sonoma Coast AVA’s. In 2010\, while managing the vineyard and landscape operations at Jackson Family Wines\, he developed a ten acre truffiere. In 2017\, he discovered the first Tuber melanosporum truffles produced in Sonoma County\, California.  Brian now oversees the estate vineyard operations for Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards and Winery in Healdsburg\, Ca. \n3:10 -3:20 pm – Dr. Shannon Berch – Update on the Truffle Cultivation Database Project and associated Survey\nNorth America’s truffle industry is in need of a reliable and open source database on truffle farming. This survey\, and the accompanying database\, are designed to meet this need. In collecting and distributing data on truffle orchards\, we hope to advance the scientific literature on truffle farming in North America and to help regional farmers (established or prospective) make decisions that are supported by empirical findings. In this presentation\, I will provide an update on this project including a likely launch date. \nAbout Dr. Shannon Berch\nShannon Berch retired in 2019 from and is now an Emerita Research Scientist with the British Columbia Ministry of Environment; she is also an adjunct professor with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and an associate member in Botany at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Bryce Kendrick kindled her interest in mycology during an undergraduate course he taught at the University of Waterloo. She completed her BSc and MSc at the University of Waterloo\, her PhD with Dr. J.-Andre Fortin at Laval University\, and a post-doc with Dr. Jim Trappe in Corvallis OR. She is a Founding Member of the South Vancouver Island Mycological Society and of the Truffle Association of BC.
URL:https://stage.trufflegrowers.com/event/congress-meeting-2020-fall-congress/
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SUMMARY:[Webinar] Inga Meadows: Testing your trees for colonization: The Why's & How's
DESCRIPTION:Recording of the event available to NATGA Members\nTruffle farming can be a rewarding experience when truffles are found\, but the years between planting your seedlings and before your first harvest can keep you on the edge of your seat! You can take some of the guesswork out of it by having your roots examined for the mycorrhizal association of interest. This webinar will give you an understanding of why and how to have your trees tested\, how we do the various tests in the lab\, and which truffle fungi we can detect. \nView Recoding\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n \n\n\n\n	\n\n		 Inga Meadows\n\n		Extension Plant Pathologist \n\n	\n\n	\n		\n			Inga Meadows is an Extension Plant Pathologist for the North Carolina State University Vegetables (primarily tomato) & Herbaceous Ornamentals\, Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology. She addresses disease issues for commercial vegetables & greenhouse growers by providing recommendations for disease prevention or suppression. Her program conducts research aimed at improving tools for managing disease.
URL:https://stage.trufflegrowers.com/event/inga-meadows-testing-your-trees-for-colonization-the-whys-hows/
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SUMMARY:[Webinar] Shannon Berch: Truffle sex & what that means for orchard management & productivity.
DESCRIPTION:Recording of the webinar available here to NATGA members\nIn this presentation\, I will review three scientific publications (see below) that are available for free download or on the NATGA web site under Resources\, Papers. Although it is my goal to make the science reasonably accessible for non-scientists\, I will be explaining biological and mycological phenomena and exploring hypothetical scenarios. The paper by Le Tacon et al. (2016) provides an explanation of what is known and still unknown about how truffle fungi reproduce. Since the end result of this reproduction is the truffle\, it is important that truffle growers understand the basics. The paper by Garcia-Barreda et al. (2020) examines how soil and season affect truffle traits like weight and maturity\, how the installation of ‘nests’ or ‘Spanish wells’ alters these responses\, and how truffle traits and responses to nest installation differ in different soil types. Making sure there is genetic diversity in the truffle orchard through the application of spores (nests or Spanish wells) could be key to enhancing productivity but under what conditions? The paper by Iotti et al. (2016) explores how inoculation of seedlings in the nursery with mycelium rather than spores might permit the selection of truffle strains with superior characteristics. Only Tuber borchii at present lends itself to this kind of strain selection since it is much easier than most other Tuber species to grow in pure culture. At the end of my webinar\, I hope that participants will have a better understanding of how truffles are produced and\, using this understanding\, be better able to evaluate possible future alterations to how truffles are cultivated. \nReferences:\nLe Tacon et al. 2016. Certainties and uncertainties about the life cycle of the Périgord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vittad.). Annals of Forest Science 73: 105-117.  \nGarcia-Barreda et al. 2020. Edaphic and temporal patterns of Tuber melanosporum fruitbody traits and effect of localized peat-based amendment. Scientific Reports 10\, 4422.  \nIotti et al. 2016. First evidence for truffle production from plants inoculated with mycelial pure cultures. Mycorrhiza 26: 793-798. \nPamela Leonardi et al. 2019. Ascoma genotyping and mating type analyses of mycorrhizas and soil mycelia of Tuber borchii in a truffle orchard established by mycelial inoculated plants.  Environmental Microbiology\, Wiley-Blackwell\, 10.1111/1462-2920.14777.  hal-02352497 \nRecording of the webinar available here to NATGA members\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n \n\n\n\n	\n\n		Dr. Shannon Berch\n\n		Retired research scientist \n\n	\n\n	\n		\n			Shannon Berch retired in 2019 from the British Columbia Ministry of Environment and a founding member of the Truffle Association of British Columbia.
URL:https://stage.trufflegrowers.com/event/shannon-berch-truffle-sex-what-that-means-for-orchard-management-productivity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200518T130000
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SUMMARY:[Webinar] Alexis Guerin: The need for proper edible mycorrhizal fungi (EMF) cultivation trials: How plantation management impacts yields.
DESCRIPTION:Knowing how plantation management affects the yield of edible mycorrhizal fungi (EMF) is both a new and complex issue. We are virtually inexperienced compared to most other horticultural sectors. EMF production also relies on the symbiotic interaction with host trees. The variable success obtained with truffle cultivation worldwide speaks for itself: a true cultivation remains to be invented. The current lack of knowledge is also a great research opportunity: so much can be learned if only we invest in it. Since no research work has yet addressed this question on truffles\, I will present the monitoring of the yield of a mycorrhizal mushroom: saffron milk cap. \nRecording of this webinar is available to members\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n \n\n\n\n	\n\n		Dr. Alexis Guerin Laguette\n\n		Scientist \n\n	\n\n	\n		\n			Dr Alexis Guerin-Laguette has been a mycorrhiza scientist at The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited since January 2004.  His global work with edible mycorrhizal fungi & fungi cultivation is widely recognized.  In New Zealand\, he shares his knowledge & expertise with all players in this industry.  He has published over 20 research papers on the topic.
URL:https://stage.trufflegrowers.com/event/alexis-guerin-the-need-for-proper-edible-mycorrhizal-fungi-emf-cultivation-trials-how-plantation-management-impacts-yields/
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SUMMARY:[Webinar] Christine Fischer: Understanding basics & fundamentals of starting a truffle plantation
DESCRIPTION:Introductory NATGA webinar will provide a foundation to the science and ecology of Tuber melanosporum. With this knowledge and understanding we are better prepared to evaluate and make decisions for the establishment and management of a Black Truffle orchard from the onset of the inclination to be a truffle farmer through the realization of that dream. A strong foundation helps to inform good practices. \nRecording of this webinar is available to members\nSpeaker:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n \n\n\n\n	\n\n		Dr. Christine Fischer\n\n		Forest Ecologist \n\n	\n\n	\n		\n			Christine Fischer is a forest ecologist with a special focus on mycorrhizal fungi. During the past 25 years she has worked with a team of researchers on the ecology and cultivation of Black Truffles in Spain at the Forest Science Center of Catalonia (CTFC)\, where she led a program for the certification of truffle seedlings. She teaches workshops on microscopic and molecular techniques for the study of ectomycorrhizal fungi\, and has participated in national and international projects and meetings\, collaborating on more than 50 scientific and educational publications.
URL:https://stage.trufflegrowers.com/event/christine-fischer-understanding-basics-fundamentals-of-starting-a-truffle-plantation/
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SUMMARY:2020 Winter Conference
DESCRIPTION:North American Truffle Growers Winter Conference & Meeting\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nMeeting Accommodations at the Doubletree in downtown Charlotte. Use code TRU for the group rate of $129/night. \nGroup Code: TRUCheck-in: 20-FEB-2020Check-out: 23-FEB-2020Hotel Name: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel CharlotteHotel Address:895 W. Trade Street\, Charlotte 28202-1122Phone Number: 704-227-2815 \n\n\nEvent Sponsors: \nAlexander Valley Truffle CompanyBurwell FarmsCarolina Farm CreditCarolina TruffiereGood Truffle CompanyRaymond PrinceSky Saddle Orchards
URL:https://stage.trufflegrowers.com/event/annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Johnson & Wales University – Charlotte\, 801 West Trade Street\, Charlotte\, VA\, 28202\, United States
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