Category: Tree Fruit
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Vermont Apple IPM week of 5/5
May 5, 2014 All orchards in the state experienced extended apple scab infection periods from April 30 through today. Depending on your site, you may have had a break in the infection period from May 1-2, but for all intents and purposes, this was one that you needed to be covered for. If coverage was…
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Scab Management 4/27-29
April 27, 2014- Anyone who had exposed green tissue on apples yesterday likely saw an apple scab infection period. This is also looking like a cool and wet week ahead, so more infection periods are likely. It looks like the best window for spray applications with low winds will be tonight, April 27, from dusk…
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Green tip apple scab management
April 24, 2014 Orchards in most areas of the state should be showing green tip now, and that means that protection is required to manage apple scab. Many orchards are going into this season with high overwintering inoculum as a result of the wet 2013 growing season, and growers need to be vigilant to manage…
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Silver tip, copper, oil, and cold temperatures
April 19, 2014 Terence Bradshaw, UVM Tree Fruit and Viticulture Specialist By the time I check the UVM orchards on Monday, I expect we’ll be seeing silver tip on many cultivars. By Friday 4/18, I called Empire and Macoun at silver tip, but most others were still looking tight, although buds were swelling on everything.…
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Early season apple disease management
April 9, 2014 Terence Bradshaw, UVM Tree Fruit and Viticulture Specialist Spring looks to be here, as temperatures are gradually warming up, or at least staying out of the frigid zone. At the UVM Hort Farm, trees are still dormant, although I’ve seen a little swelling on Empire and Macoun. Still, green tip looks to…
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2014 Growing Season Welcome
April 1, 2014 Terence Bradshaw, UVM Tree Fruit and Viticulture Specialist As I write this at the beginning of the first week of April, it looks like Spring will finally be arriving, but in a form I remember as a kid- a long month of fluctuating temperatures, plenty of ice and slush, and trees showing…
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Survey on Apple Scab Resistance
March 21, 2014- I’m passing this on from some colleagues who are pulling together a grant to develop a rapid fungicide resistance test for apple scab. Please consider spending five minutes to answer the survey. This is important work that is worthy of funding. -TB Apple pathologists in New England and New York would like…
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2014 New England Tree Fruit Guide is Available Now
March 17, 2014 The 2014 New England Tree Fruit Management Guide is available for order now. This guide represents the work of IPM professionals throughout New England, and is our primary resource for IPM and general production information available to growers. If you think your old guide will cut it, it won’t. There have been…
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CORRECTION re: 2014 Pesticide Certification Review and Exam
CORRECTION: for current VT Pesticide Applicators License holders, this review is good for TWO recertification credits, not six as I mentioned earlier. Sorry for the confusion. -TB 2014 Initial Certification Meeting, a review of the Core Pesticide Manual followed by the Pesticide Applicators exam Vermont Technical College, Randolph Center, VT April 8 ; 9am-4pm Pre-register…
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2014 Pesticide Certification Review and Exam
Spring really is coming -be ready when it finally gets here! All fruit growers, whether retail, wholesale, organic, or IPM, should hold a current Vermont Pesticide Applicator’s License to purchase and safely use pest management materials on your farms. This meeting provides initial training and an opportunity to take the initial certification exam all in…