Articles, Research

Stink bugs attack cherries

Stink bugs, typically an apple pest, can be a problem in late-maturing cherries

by Geraldine Warner

Natural products enhance disease control

Can natural products combined with fungicides improve control of diseases, such as blue mold?

by Geraldine Warner

Pesticides affect moth flight

by Geraldine Warner

Promising new technologies for mating disruption

An attract-and-remove technique eliminates trapped males and requires only a small amount of attractant.

By Larry Gut, Peter McGhee, Juan Huang, Mike Reinke, Piera Siegert and James Miller, Michigan State University

Reflective fabric = more pears

Todd Einhorn

Foremen learn to supervise

Foremen wanted employers to give more praise but struggled with how to do the same for workers they supervised.

Dr. Gregorio Billikopf, University of California

Keeping cherry growing profitable

Tracie Arnold, Washington State University, Prosser

Exploring tunnels

ennis Hoxsie has both moral support and helpful advice from Dr. Greg Lang, the Michigan State University horticulturist who was bitten by the high tunnel bug six years ago and has been intensively researching them ever since. What Hoxsie wants to do—have high quality sweet cherries earlier than those around him—has been one of Lang’s goals as well.

by Richard Lehnert

The KGB revealed

In the late 1990s, Oregon cherry growers began planting pedestrian orchards, ­utilizing training systems developed in Europe to grow small trees that could be harvested without ladders. For growers, the incentive to plant pedestrian orchards included higher early yields, potentially higher yields at maturity, easier maintenance, better spray penetration, and fewer ladder accidents. But growers also realized that pickers were able to significantly increase their productivity in these orchards.

A research report from Lynn Long, Oregon State University Extension

Growers surveyed on pest practices

Though use of Guthion is declining, 80 percent of growers and managers surveyed used it as part of their codling moth program in 2008.