Why the National Organic Standards Board made its decision
In 2011, when the National Organic Standards Board made a formal recommendation to the National Organic Program to permit oxytetracyline
Coppers are a fit for organics
Before the 1960s, there were no antibiotics to help orchardists control fireblight, one of the most destructive diseases of pears
Behind the scenes at the NOSB
Harold Austin In April, the National Organic Standards Board will decide whether organic apple and pear growers in the United
Fireblight is native to North America
Fireblight is a plant disease of apples and pears caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora. It is native to North
National Organic Standards Board members
Producers: Carmela Beck, organic program manager, Driscoll’s Strawberry Associates, Inc., Watsonville, California. Colehour Bondera, owner, Kanalani Ohana Farm, Honaunau, Hawaii.
First Bite: Doing flip-flops
As the incoming managing editor of Good Fruit Grower, each day I walk past a framed copy of the magazine’s
A replacement for Tiberon
Nurseries working to provide apple growers with the well-branched, “feathered” trees they want to plant can use the chemical MaxCel
Growers have several choices in fireblight control
Pear and apple orchardists have a fairly broad field of products to use in controlling fireblight—and it should get even
Fireblight-resistant apple
Ladina, a new high-quality apple variety with low susceptibility to fireblight and mildew, has been developed by a Swiss research
Fireblight, antibiotics, and the NOSB
Antibiotics have long been key disease control materials for fireblight, one of the few uses of antibiotics in plant agriculture.