Lailiang Cheng and Mike Basedow, Cornell Cooperative Extension Nutrient management plays a vital role in determining your orchard’s tree growth, yield, and fruit quality. Here are a few things to keep in mind when developing your orchard nutrition program this season. Nitrogen: The highest demand for nitrogen in the orchard occurs from petal fall to Read More…
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Tree Fruit News: Managing Fire Blight in 2023
Līga Astra Kalniņa & Kerik Cox, PPPMB, Geneva, NY Janet van Zoeren, CCE, Lake Ontario Fruit Program, Albion, NY 2022 fire blight season recap. In 2022, there were devastating fire blight outbreaks in Finger Lakes region after petal fall at the end of May. The season was characterized by cool “low risk” bloom that Read More…
Tree Fruit News: Scaffolds Digest, Week 3
This post a is text digest of the new Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast Entomology Update with Monique Rivera Let’s jump right in and talk about the idea of bulletproofing IPM programs. This is a topic of conversation probably everywhere in agriculture over the past couple of Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Managing Peach Blocks with No Crop
Win Cowgill, Professor Emeritus Rutgers University Win Enterprises International, LLC 2023 has proven to be a difficult season weather wise, especially northern Peach growing states for peaches. February 4, minimum cold temperatures reached minus 12 to minus 16 in the NY Hudson Valley at some locations. Similar low temperatures in Massachusetts and Connecticut were observed. Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Diazinon and Ziram restrictions for the Canadian Market
Anna Wallis, Janet van Zoeren and Monique Rivera, Cornell Cooperative Extension & Cornell University CALS Program What are the actual regulations? Diazinon and Ziram are two materials recently under scrutiny in tree fruit production. Diazinon is an organophosphate insecticide, that has been an effective management tool for pre-bloom control of San Jose Scale and post-bloom Read More…
New Produce Safety Factsheets Available for Hydroponics Producers
Elisabeth Hodgdon, Extension Specialist Cornell Cooperative Extension, ENYCHP Understanding how to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)’s Produce Safety Rule can be challenging for hydroponics and aquaponics producers. In response to an identified need for more tailored resources for this industry, the Northeast Center to Advance Food Safety (NECAFS) developed a set of Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides
Mike Basedow, Extension Specialist & Janet van Zoeren, Extension Specialist Cornell Cooperative Extension If you weren’t able to get pre-emergent herbicides on in the fall, spring still presents a good time to get something out before many annuals start to germinate. Below are some pre-emergent product recommendations to consider this spring. To help you select Read More…
Tree Fruit News: Scaffolds Digest, Week 2
This post is a text digest of the new Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast Entomology Update with Monique Rivera Most of the state is still at silvertip and there is still time to get an early season oil applied. Three more reasons to consider applying this early Read More…
Allium Leaf Miner Alert for the Hudson Valley: Spring 2023
Teresa Rusinek, Extension Specialist Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program, Cornell Cooperative Extension Adult ALM fly with distinctive yellow head alongside diagnostic line of pale green oviposition scars near tip of scallion leaf. Photo: E. Grundberg On Wednesday April 5, 2023, Allium leaf miner (ALM) activity was detected in a patch of cultivated chives growing Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Promising Ag-Vision Technologies Highlighted at the CCE Statewide Virtual Apple Fruit Conference ‘What Is Possible Today and in the Future’
Mario Miranda Sazo, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Lake Ontario Fruit Team Michael Basedow, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program This winter we were interested in the technological capabilities and solutions being offered by three vision system companies for precision crop load management in apples in 2023 and in the future. Our main goal Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Early Season Disease Management 2023
Līga Astra Kalniņa & Kerik Cox Cornell University Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section Assessing the upcoming 2023 apple scab season. Winter seemed to come late in early March, and only for a few weeks and with intermittent snow cover at best. Snow cover is effectively non-existent, and while it’s still cool in the evenings, Read More…
Online Worker Protection Standard (WPS) Train the Trainer Course Approved
Teresa Rusinek, Extension Specialist CCE Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program The WPS is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation intended to protect agricultural workers and pesticide handlers from risk of exposure. If you are an agricultural employer or manager, you must know your responsibilities under the WPS and provide WPS training and protections to employees. Read More…