May 13, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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With welcome, warm, sunny weather, we are seeing epiphytic infection potential rise in virtually all orchards around the state. We are expecting by Thursday or Friday to have high enough populations of bacteria to cause fire blight infections on trees … Continue reading
May 10, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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As I write this just after noon on Saturday, May 10, it looks like this long stretch of rain we have been experiencing for the past week is wrapping up a bit earlier than expected. Over the past seven to … Continue reading
May 5, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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Reminder: TREE FRUIT TWILIGHT MEETINGS Thursday and Friday, May 8 and 9, 4:00-6:00 pm Join the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association and UVM Extension on May 8 at Yates Family Orchard, 1074 Davis Road, Hinesburg, VT or May 9 at … Continue reading
May 4, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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This edition of our newsletter was written by UVM PhD student Bethany Pelletier. You can expect more from her this season. While I have you, I’d like to promote the Cold Climate Viticulture course Bethany and I will be teaching … Continue reading
April 30, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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Vermont orchards are generally at green tip bud stage for the coolest locations in the state to tight cluster in warmer locations. Apple scab continues to be the primary pest management consideration of concern. I recommend maintaining a protectant fungicide … Continue reading
April 23, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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The recent warm weather has advanced apple bud stages significantly — we are at the half-inch green stage at UVM HREC and continued warm weather should keep things moving. I recorded a video at the orchard yesterday showing the bud … Continue reading
April 17, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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Join the University of Vermont Extension and Vermont Tree Fruit Grower’s Association at these hands-on field meetings at Yates Family Orchard in Monkton on May 8th and Wellwood Orchard in Springfield on May 9th from 4:30-6 p.m. We will discuss … Continue reading
April 15, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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I am trying out some 21st-century technology this week. First, I dictated my message while on my commute (with light editing), so the ‘writing’ style and length may be a bit different than folks are used to. Second, I recorded … Continue reading
April 6, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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I think burying my call for folks interested in receiving traps for orchard monitoring at the bottom of my first email last week left it unseen, so I’m resending on its own. Scouting season is almost here in Vermont orchards. … Continue reading
April 4, 2025
by Terence Bradshaw
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Good morning: The growing season just keeps getting closer, I am calling today as the start of silver tip in McIntosh trees at the UVM Horticulture Research and Education Center. That means that the need for regular pest management is … Continue reading