Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 13 On this week’s episode of Scaffolds, I talk about the heat wave we’re currently experiencing and its effect on insects, and go over information from the west coast about woolly apple aphid. Kerik gives us a midseason update on pathology, and Anna continues our state of the state updates on Read More…
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Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 12
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 12 This post is a text digest of the Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original episode, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast on Spotify On this week’s episode of Scaffolds, I talked to Anna Wunsch about apple viruses. Kerik gives us an update on Apple Blotch and Marsonnina, and Anna Read More…
2024 Blossom Blast & Bacterial Canker Management
2024 Blossom Blast & Bacterial Canker Management Anna Wallis, NYSIPM and Janet van Zoeren, LOF Bacterial canker/blossom blast is a bacterial disease of stone fruits caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae. It is common to fruit growing areas of N. America, but we don’t always see it on an annual basis. This is because it Read More…
Update on European Cherry Fruit Fly
Update on European Cherry Fruit Fly By Janet van Zoeren, LOF, Anna Wallis, NYSIPM Updated from article by Janet van Zoeren, LOFT, Juliet Carroll, NYSIPM and Art Agnello, Cornell AgriTech European cherry fruit fly (ECFF, Rhagoletis cerasi) is a non-native relative of our native cherry and black cherry fruit flies. It is considered a quarantine Read More…
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 11
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 11 This post is a text digest of the Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original episode, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast on Spotify On this week’s episode of Scaffolds, I talk about Apple Maggot, which should be showing up sooner than later. Kerik gives us insight on continued disease Read More…
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 10
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 10 This post is a text digest of the Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original episode, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast on Spotify On this week’s episode of Scaffolds, I talk to Dr. Tracy Leskey, an entomologist at USDA-ARS and the director of USDA’s Appalachian Fruit Research Station. And Read More…
2024 Orchard Post-Emergent Herbicide Reminders
2024 Post-Emergent Herbicide Reminders Mike Basedow and Janet van Zoeren Hopefully everyone found a good window to get pre-emergent materials on earlier this spring or last fall. Now that we are approaching summer, you may be planning to do some follow up herbicide applications to clean up what came up through your pre-emergent application, and Read More…
2024 Champlain Valley 10-13mm Thinning Recommendations
2024 Champlain Valley 10-13mm Thinning Recommendations Dr. Terence Robinson and Mike Basedow Below is a review of recommendations from our virtual Fruit Set Meeting that we held on May 28th. The recording of which can also be viewed below: Assess each block for flower damage, set, and thinning achieved so far. Depending on how your Read More…
Correction to “Guidelines” – Verdepryn insecticide has low toxicity to many beneficial species
Correction to “Guidelines” – Verdepryn insecticide has low toxicity to many beneficial species Janet van Zoeren and Anna Wallis Verdepryn/cyclaniliprole, together with Altacor and Exirel, are IRAC group 28 ‘diamide’ insecticide. Both Verdepryn 100SL and Cyclaniliprole 50SL are labeled for use in New York in all pome fruits, stone fruits, berry crops, and grapes. Read More…
Spotted Wing Drosophila – Update on Monitoring and Management
Spotted Wing Drosophila – Update on Monitoring and Management Anna Wallis, NYSIPM & Janet van Zoeren, CCE LOF Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) is a serious pest of berries and cherries; as the primary driver of insecticide applications in those crops, growers of susceptible fruits are all too familiar with this insect. For a review of Read More…
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 9
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 9 This post is a text digest of the Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original episode, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast on Spotify Monique Reviews Plum Curculio, Aphids On this week’s episode, I discuss insects to consider treatments for at petal fall. Kerik gives us the disease forecast, Read More…
2024 Capital Region 10-13mm Thinning Recommendations
2024 Capital Region 10-13mm Thinning Recommendations Dr. Terence Robinson and Mike Basedow Below is a review of recommendations from our Fruit Set Meeting that we held in Ballston Spa on May 22nd. The recording of which can also be viewed below: Assess each block for flower damage. We once again found variable levels of set Read More…