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J uly 21- 23, 2025, one hundred International Fruit Tree Association members visited neighboring orchards to the Great North, in Ontario, C...

Apple tree suffering from RAtD as seen in late July   A pple orchards throughout the Northeast witnessed a spate of Rapid Apple-tree Decline...

  D uring the 2024 growing season I worked with Vivid Machines ( https://www.vivid-machines.com/ ) using their XV3 camera and cloud platform...

  Orchard Watch – aka “How is the Orchard Feeling Today?” – is our nickname for a set of weather “stations” at the UMass Orchard in Belcher...

 But not too cold? How cold is too cold? It depends😀 Arctic high pressure invaded the country this week. Dangerous wind chills from the Mid...

 Three nights in Cape Town, six nights in Stellenbosch, three nights in Makhanda (eastern Cape). Plus two nights flying between Newark and C...

 My second year working with Oli Hilbourne and Jim McDougall from Outfield using my DJI Air 2S UAV (drone) to do blossom density, fruit var...