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Apples
Growth stage update
Article: Bocking comfrey orchard understory cover (Site specific strategies; video included)
Grapes
Growth stage update
Hedging and skirting grapes
Early-veraison is the next chance for petiole...
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Heat advisory for Minnesota growers
Apples
Identifying codling moth damage: Deep entry
When should trunk guards be removed from apple trees?
Check trellis wires, clips, and bands during the growing season (high density)...
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Blueberries
Growth stage: Fruit harvest for early hybrid and highbush varieties
SWD updates and exclusion netting
Disease: Anthracnose fruit rot
Grapes
Japanese Beetle: First sighting of the year and the winsome fly...
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Apple
Growth stage and pest management update: Fruit enlargement (3-6cm)
San Jose scale and apple maggot info
Rapid or Sudden Apple Decline
Grapes
Growth stage and pest management update: Fruit set entering stage II
What causes...
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Apples
Pest highlight: Dogwood borer (Article)
Apple maggot development
Grapes
Learn the anatomy of a grapevine (Video)
Training young grapevines (Article)
Honeyberries
Netting honeyberries/haskap (Article: UW Extension...
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General Fruit
Webinar recording: SARE labor training, “Creating systems to mitigate on farm conflict”
UMN Extension Fruit Crop Reporting Tool
Apples
Growth stage and pest management update: Apples between 18-30mm
Grapes...
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Apples
Article: Tracking apple maggot populations and considerations for organic management
Article: Training young free-standing apple trees
Grapes
Deer damage and management
Downy mildew: Identifying oil spots and...
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Apples
Growth and pest management updates
Apple fruit diameters 6–11 mm, increased vegetative shoot growth
What makes for good conditions with post-bloom thinning?
Apple scab updates from the NEWA station at the HRC
Article:...
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Apples
Growth stage and pest management update: Petal fall
Article: Considerations for fruit thinning for normal and cold damage years
Fruit thinning at petal fall
Article: European red mite (ERM; occasional pest) + Beneficial...
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Grapes
Growth update: Bud break and frost damage
Grape foliar and fruit diseases: Early-season management
Update on Mancozeb regulation (Cornell article)
General fruit information
Pest highlight: Eastern tent caterpillar...