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    • Videos teach precision crop load management

    Cornell University has posted three new videos on YouTube that explain how to do—and the benefits of—precision crop load management.

    The video titled “Precision Crop Load Management (Terence Robinson)” explains how precision crop load management can be implemented, as narrated in nine minutes by Dr. Terence Robinson.

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    The five-minute video titled “PCLM: Conversations with Growers” hears from a group of New York growers who benefited by adopting this technology in 2013 and 2014.

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    The five-minute video titled “Learning Precision Apple Thinning” shows how a New York grower would implement the precision chemical thinning protocol. It is narrated in Spanish by Mario Miranda Sazo, with English subtitles.

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    The videos can be accessed through the Lake Ontario Fruit Program website at lof.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=287&crumb=horticulture|horticulture.

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    Richard Lehnert
    After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index
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