Regardless of the disease, management requires a multipronged approach: Use fungicides with a rotation of different modes of ...

The moths started flying about two weeks earlier than normal last year and were still active in mid-October, about a month ...

Codling moth has long been an arch nemesis of apple and pear growers, and organic growers in particular report an increase in ...

Apple trees usually want to grow up. Horticultural systems were engineered around the trees’ innate apical dominance, but ...

The expansion includes two other critical fungal diseases, downy mildew and botrytis bunch rot, and the primary fungicides ...

Now many years into the battle against X disease and little cherry disease, growers find themselves skipping the testing ...

The apple’s greatest genetic diversity can be found in its place of origin, Central Asia. Meanwhile, the greatest genetic ...

Chill hours are the cumulative amount of cool weather trees need for adequate budbreak and flowering. If cherries don’t get ...

Kasugamycin and streptomycin have different modes of action but are both bactericidal, which means they kill bacteria.

The International Fruit Tree Association presented several awards during its 68th annual conference in Rochester, New York, ...

Paul is a fourth-generation farmer working on his 100-year-old family farm located in the Netherlands’ Gelderland province.

Michigan State University research assistant Chayce Griffith discusses bitter pit prevention during the International Fruit ...