June 2015 Issue

Spray guide offers tree row volume spraying tips

The 2015 New Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Production Guide devotes six pages to the subject of applying sprays according to the volume of the tree canopy per acre. The guide generally follows the rules developed by University of Maryland horticulturist Dr. Paul Steiner in the 1990s. According to Dean Polk at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Steiner developed his tree row volume method after observing what worked for growers in the Mid-Atlantic States, and they were by then reducing tree size, reducing the dilution of sprays, and reducing the number of gallons of spray applied per acre. Steiner said growers […]

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June 23, 2015

Pesticides, Richard Lehnert

Richard Lehnert

After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index

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