A Pennsylvania researcher warns growers south of New York, where trees grow more vigorously, that they might want to take a cautious approach on adoption of summer pruning and shearing to create fruiting walls.
Mites continue to develop resistance to new miticides.
A soil biofumigant developed for both conventional and organic farms offers a new tool in what is becoming an increasingly
Both Dow Agrosciences and Monsanto Company expect to have new herbicide-resistant crops and new herbicides available in 2015. Dow is
New measuring tests allow growers to track the impact of soil management changes.
Several forces at work suggest that orchardists should look more closely at how they manage the floors of their orchards and vineyards.
pecialty crops growers, especially those who grow grapes, will have new cause for concern in 2015 when new genetically modified field crops are expected to come to fields near their orchards and vineyards.
Fruit growers are always looking for better, cheaper ways of controlling vegetation under the trees in their orchards, but, in general, weed control gets more expensive and more complicated.
Dr. Joan Davenport is looking for cost effective treatments for chlorosis in Concord grapes.
Steve Black Steve Black has been appointed sales manager of Holtzinger Fruit Company, Yakima, Washington. He was previously
