Precise disease management is complicated
Like insects, diseases develop in predictable ways based on growing-degree accumulations, but diseases are driven more by moisture than are
Pear Marketing: Connect with the customer
Pears are a relatively small item in the fresh produce department, but they are still important to retailers. Pears make
The Boyers of Chestnut Ridge
In Pennsylvania, almost all the apples grow in Adams County but 90 miles west, there’s a ridge—Chestnut Ridge—where fruit trees, mostly apples but also peaches, pears, and cherries
Universities collaborate
Kari Peter, the new plant pathologist at Penn State, will serve fruit growers in three states.by Richard Lehnert Three
Winery showcases estate fruit
Kerry Shiels began as Côte Bonneville’s winemaker in 2009, after getting her master’s from the University of California, Davis,
New York apples names
Jeff Crist shows the new logo for SnapDragon (formerly New York 1), pictured right. Photos courtesy of Cornell University
Peach growers challenges
Growing peaches is getting easier in some ways, harder in others, a rather normal description of many orchardists’ efforts. Take
Reluctant Regina
Cherry growers in Oregon like the Regina cherry. They like that it has some resistance to rain cracking and that the fruit ships well to Asia or Europe. They just wish the trees would be more productive.
New spray concept proves feasible
Entomologist Larry Gut has been experimenting with the Solid-Set Canopy Delivery system to apply codling moth mating disruption pheromone
Universities collaborate
Kari Peter, the new plant pathologist at Penn State, will serve fruit growers in three states. by Richard Lehnert Three