I’m going to steal and repeat a line that one of our own growers shared recently: I hope everyone has all the equipment working flawlessly, all the mowing done, most of the spraying completed and is able to sit on … Continue reading →

One item that’s at top of mind is the heat we are expecting early this week could provide substantial stress to trees, not to mention farmers and farm workers. Plan ahead and take care of yourselves. If you have irrigation, … Continue reading →

The time has come (and I’m actually a little late on this notice, so this shouldn’t be delayed) to hang apple maggot fly (AMF) traps in Vermont orchards. These are some of the easiest pests to manage using an IPM … Continue reading →

We have a video up on YouTube this week if folks want to see what’s going on in our orchard. -TB We are settling into summer mode in Vermont orchards. For most of us, the weekly disease management treadmill is … Continue reading →

We caught our first codling moth in pheromone-baited Traps on May 20th, which set our biofix date for the degree day model used to track egg hatch and larval development. As of today we have reached the threshold for treatment … Continue reading →

Apple scab ascospore maturity models for essentially every weather station in the state indicates that we are at the end of the primary scab infection season. That means spores that could cause apple scab have matured and either has or … Continue reading →

Given the long stretches of cool-to-cold weather, bloom has been stretched out all over the place in Vermont orchards. In warmer sites, apples are at petal fall, yet many trees in most sites are holding on to significant blossoms. Don’t … Continue reading →