Fruit Researchers Get Backing To Help Snuff Out Fire Blight

Beating this disease that threatens to scorch pome fruit orchards requires careful planning and execution.

Conventional treatment update details Kasumin light sensitivity, confirms Apogee/Actigard effectiveness.

Antibiotics or no antibiotics, apple and pear growers have a treatment they can trust in the suppression of deadly disease.

Industry survey results reveal the yays and nays on spray.

Find out more about the four-year project that will be led by two Michigan State University researchers.

Plant disease wastes no time destroying pome tree dreams, oftentimes under the cover of darkness.

Gene editing, once thought impossible in apples, now offers intriguing possibilities.

Comments are being accepted through May 17 to support keeping the registration for aerial applications of streptomycin and oxytetracycline.

New crop protection tool from Certis USA is approved for organic agriculture and features four-hour reentry interval.

Dynamic speakers at this year’s Biocontrols USA West Conference & Expo in Portland, OR, target fire blight, stink bug trouble spots, and greater understanding of biopesticides.

It’s best to remove strikes in apple or pear orchards before winter pruning, says Tianna DuPont of WSU Extension.

It’s time to think holistically because taking a piecemeal approach just doesn’t make a lot of sense when dealing with today’s complex orchard systems.

While pome fruit growers may use conventional products such as antibiotics to treat trees in the orchard, new resistant strains have generated interest in alternative methods.

How you tackle the pathogen’s presence this offseason and early next season could affect the overall health of your orchard.

Bacteriophage products to be available for apple, pear, and citrus growers in 2019.

Answers to your most pressing fruit pest problems is a primary focus of unique industry event’s program.

Kasumin bactericide now labeled for use on apples and pears; cherries and walnuts expected to be OK’d in coming months.

Researchers at Michigan State University test organic controls for fire blight.

Fire blight is a damaging disease, no matter the location. Most production areas of the Pacific Northwest and […]