Low-volume prestorage drenching is attractive

Dave Rosenberger described how he tested the effectiveness of low-volume nonrecycling drenches for fruit going into storage. His audience included New York fruit growers and International Fruit Tree Association members on tour during the fruit field day at Cornell Agricultural Research Station at Geneva, New York. The practice of drenching fruit before placing it into extended storage is one that storage operators would love to eliminate, for several reasons. Question is, can they? Some storage operators in western New York have done it successfully. Instead of drenching bins of fruit and then recovering and recycling the liquid, they spray about […]