Quebec Apple Tour July 17-18 This free orchard tour will be taking place in Quebec’s Montérégie region, just over the border from the Champlain Valley. The tour group will be meeting at a hotel in Brossard, and free bus transportation will be provided to the orchards on each day. Presentations will primarily be in French, Read More…
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Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 4
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 4 This post is a text digest of the Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original episode, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast on Spotify Welcome to season two of scaffolds. This is Monique Rivera, your host and assistant professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech. Co-hosting with me is my Read More…
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 3
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 3 This post is a text digest of the Scaffolds Podcast. To listen to the original episode, visit the following link: Scaffolds Podcast on Spotify Welcome to season two of Scaffolds. This is Monique Rivera, your host and assistant professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech. Co-hosting with me is my Read More…
Annual Orchard Trellis System Maintenance
Annual Orchard Trellis System Maintenance Mario Mirando Sazo, Cornell Cooperative Extension LOFP Start planning or continue the annual maintenance of your trellis system: 1. Replace broken and weakened posts (see pictures taken in a mature Honeycrisp block yesterday) 2. Re-pound anchors and in-line posts that have heaved. 3. Straighten leaning posts. 4. Check and replace Read More…
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 2
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 2 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 Rivera: Welcome to season two of Scaffolds. This is Monique Rivera, your host and assistant professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech. Co-hosting with me is Read More…
Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides
Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides Mike Basedow and Janet van Zoeren 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 materials, have a Read More…
Active Woolly Apple Aphid Populations in Western New York
Active Woolly Apple Aphid Populations in Western New York Dr. Monique Rivera, Cornell AgriTech In conflict with all messaging provided on woolly apple aphids (WAA), we have surprisingly found active colonies in western New York. Typically, we expect to see WAA in late May and early June, not in the last week of March. We Read More…
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 1
Scaffolds 2024 Digest: Week 1 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 Rivera: Welcome to season two of Scaffolds. This is Monique Rivera, your host and assistant professor of entomology at Cornell AgriTech. Co-hosting with me Read More…
Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning
Performing Floral Bud Evaluations on Honeycrisp Ahead of Precision Pruning Mike Basedow, CCE-ENYCHP, Northern NY I recently evaluated four Honeycrisp blocks in the Champlain Valley for their percentage of flowering buds so the growers could adjust their pruning practices. The blocks are described in the following table: Block Rootstock 2023 Crop Load Training System Soil Read More…
2024 Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji)
Intentional Delay of Dormant Pruning for ‘Honeycrisp’ & Other Important Biennial Cultivars (Fuji) Mario Miranda Sazo and Terence Robinson When pruning a Honeycrisp block without knowing the floral bud percentage (% of floral buds in a 100 bud sample of spurs from randomly selected shoots in a Honeycrisp block), you are risking removing too many Read More…