Tuesday, June 9, 2026

It’s getting dry out there...

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 It’s getting dry out there. How do I know? Simple. Soil moisture sensors! Well, not really so simple! For starters, at the UMass Orchard in...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Half-baked research: multi-leader, pedestrian apple orchard

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  In 2022 -- which seems like ages ago -- I submitted a proposal to the New England Tree Fruit Growers Research Committee titled "A mod...
Friday, December 26, 2025

GLEXPO Posters

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 UMass Extension Educators Jon Clements, Susan Scheufele, and John Galvan attended the Great Lakes Expo (GLEXPO) December 9-11, 2026 in Gran...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

IFTA visits neighbors to the North

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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...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Best Practices for How To Handle Rapid Apple-Tree Decline

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Apple tree suffering from RAtD as seen in late July   A pple orchards throughout the Northeast witnessed a spate of Rapid Apple-tree Decline...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

My experience with Vivid Machines in 2024

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  D uring the 2024 growing season I worked with Vivid Machines ( https://www.vivid-machines.com/ ) using their XV3 camera and cloud platform...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Orchard Watch update...

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