For Cornell University entomologist Dr. Art Agnello, the grant funding for research to develop and evaluate the Solid Set Canopy Delivery System (SSCD) for spraying orchards is gratifying for it builds on what he discovered 15 years ago. “We tried it then, and, frankly, it worked very well,” he said. In 1998, he and co-workers at the Geneva Experiment Station in New York put together a crude irrigation-like system, using emitters attached to metal conduit poles to spray insecticides and fungicides in an orchard without using an airblast sprayer and hauling spray solution up and down the orchard alleys. At […]