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 H oneycrisp is arguably the poster child for bitter pit. (With the exception of Cortland, but who would want to grow those anyways? LOL.) B...

 I n late 2020 Valent Biosciences received Federal registration for ACCEDE plant growth regulator. From their announcement “Accede is the f...

 D on’t play with matches. Don’t play with fire. Don’t play with fire blight! Lesson learned. Of course I had to prove it for myself, as in ...

2021 was a year of – how shall I say it? – “half-baked” research. With a couple exceptions, too many minor research projects producing vari...

Directly from their website "RIMpro Cloud Service is an interactive Decision Support System (DSS) for pest and disease management in fr...

N ursery apple trees that arrive as unbranched, so-called “whips” are a perpetual problem. In the old days, when growing a central-leader tr...

Blossom blight on newly planted NY-1 apple tree Does it have a pretty side? No, of course not. But this past week I saw a particularly ugly ...