For nearly 40 years, integrated pest management  has been the hallmark of progressive thinking in fruit production and agriculture generally. If you used IPM, you were on the cutting edge. So imagine how surprised New York growers were when state funding for the New York IPM program was slashed in half two years ago and threatened with extinction this year. Notices went out in January telling  faculty at Cornell University that the IPM program would end March 31 and giving those affected the required six-month notice that their jobs could end in July. In the end, the legislature plugged the […]