Over the years, fruit growers have traded in their shotgun-like pest control tools for more precise rifle-like tools and bullets capable of hitting moving targets with great accuracy. As they adopt these new weapons, they need to perfect their use of them. During the Eastern Apple Precision Orchard Management Summit held in Geneva, New York, last March, there was not much discussion about the “bullets”—the insect and disease control chemicals—except to say they are like bullets, not like pellets in a shotgun, and that growers need to fire precisely the right ones at precise times, using different bullets for different […]