Author: Terence Bradshaw
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Upcoming webinar on Grapevine Nutrition: Nutrient Requirements, Tissue Tests, and Mycorrhizae
Some of you may be interested in this upcoming webinar from Penn State Viticulture And Enology team. -TB Grapevine Nutrition: Nutrient Requirements, Tissue Tests, and Mycorrhizae Presenter: Paul Schreiner, Plant Physiologist, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Horticultural Crops Research, Corvallis, OR. To be covered: This live webinar will review the basics of plant nutrition and the…
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Webinar: Adding Tree Fruit to a Diversified Farm
This may be a bit entry-level for most on this list, but I here’s the login information for my lecture tomorrow, Adding Tree Fruit to a Diversified Farm, which is part of the Vermont Vegetable and Berry Grower Webinar Series. 12:00 – 1:00 PM, Weds Dec 9. Join the webinar using your computer or smartphone…
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Important changes to UVM Fruit website, and upcoming winter educational opportunities
As we shift into winter, I’d like to highlight some changes among the UVM Fruit program, and to present a number of opportunities for learning and networking this season. First, our website which has been operating since 2013 was retired on fairly short notice when the background sofytware was retired by . Thanks to the…
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Buy Local Holiday Shopping Campaign–Apply by Wednesday at 5 PM
The Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets in collaboration with the Department of Tourism is running a buy local campaign this holiday season to highlight Vermont producers and merchants. Statewide, the campaign will encourage online and brick-and-mortar shopping at Vermont-based merchants. Regionally, the campaign will support online sales of Vermont-made products. Businesses interested in being…
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New England Winter Fruit Meetings
In lieu of in-person meetings this winter, the Extension programs of the New England universities are together offering a schedule of online webinars. Most webinars will offer pesticide applicator recertification credits, and all are free of charge. There are some rules to get those credits, though- you’ll need to sign on at the beginning, stay…
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Fast-track Your VCAAP Application
Forwarding from the VT Agency of Agriculture. -TB Fast-track Your VCAAP Application We’ve been working hard to get as much information out to potential VCAAP applicants as possible, and recently we got to thinking: maybe we’ve created an information-overload. And maybe you’re paralyzed by too many FAQ sheets and application guides? So… we’ve taken all…
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Fall post-harvest herbicide application
[tree fruit, IPM] Passing this on from Mary Concklin at UCONN. Herbicide Applications this Fall There are a couple of times during the year when the timing of herbicides will have the largest positive impact on your weed management – fall and spring. Herbicides applied at other times during the season are good for eliminating…
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Helping out Champlain Orchards
I am passing this request from UVM Extension on to the greater fruit growing community. It is rare that I use this list to promote a specific farm, and this should not be read as preferential treatment. What happened at Champlain could have happened on any of our farms, and this is a chance to…
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COVID resources
By now it’s likely that everyone in the Vermont orchard community has heard news of a COVID outbreak among the harvest crew at Champlain Orchards in Shoreham. I write this with respect for the Champlain Orchard community, and humility regarding the potential for an outbreak when we are doing the best we can. A farm…
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Health Services for H2A Workers
Passing on from Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland at UVM Extension. -TB UVM Extension wants to make sure H2A workers are as healthy as possible during this busy time of year and into the future. The fall flu season combined with COVID is potentially a huge threat to the success and viability of farms and we want to…