Programme 2024
This year’s international conference programme will cover 3 visits of organic blackcurrant farms, presentations from Europe’s leading fruit juice processors, from blackcurrant variety research centers and on agronomic topics of utmost interest. But above all, it will allow people to meet and discuss.
June 11th 2024
15:00 IBA Board meeting
16:30 Meetings of the Agronomy & Plant Breeding Sector Group and of the Health Claim Sector Group
19:00 Dinner
June 12th 2024
08:30 Opening session (conference room)
09:10 IBA General Meeting
11:00 Market session (Austria Juice, Iprona, Grünewald and harvest forecast)
12:30 lunch
13:30 Agronomy Session (varieties, weeding, climate change, organic blackcurrant growing)
15:30 Wein- und Obstbauschule Silberberg
19:30 Dinner
June 13th 2024
08:30 Fieldtrips / visit to:
Farm Birgit und Christoph REINHART
Farm Gudrun und Franz SCHRIEBL
Coldstorage Iprona Lieboch GmbH
19:00 Dinner
June 14th 2024
Choice of visits to:
09:00 Südsteirische Weinstraße and Farm E.& St. Lampl and Factory Grünewald Fruchtsaft GmbH, Stainz
or
11:00 Austria Juice GmbH, Allhartsberg (to be reached individually by car – 3h from the conference)