Hope it works out. How about using a helicopter for the copper sprays? Three days ago - snow in the Caribbean Islands! http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/04/03/never-before-seen-spring-snowfall-in-the-caribbean-islands-colorado-ski-resort-snowiest-in-50-years-snow-chaos-in-germany/
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dennis Norton < dmnor...@royaloakfarmorchard.com> wrote: > Fortunately, our issue has not been with injury from the cold snap, but > the fact that we are still unable to get our first copper spray on. We have > gotten nearly 2" of rain int he past week and the orchard is a mud pit! > Last Sunday it hit 70 here in northern Illinois/southern Wisconsin with a > wind of 15 to 20 MPH and way too windy to spray. It dried out some, but not > enough to get the tractors through. Then the trees went from silver tip to > green tip in just a few hours. But by Sunday night is was down to 25 and > our average high has been in the high 30's and low in the mid 20's since, > until last night when it hit 21. Luckily the trees slowed down enough to > stay pretty much at green tip. It is still too wet to get into the orchard > to spray and we are hoping for an 8 to 6 hour window to spray our copper > tomorrow when the predicted high is 53 and low is 32. We need enough time > to get in to spray and give the copper enough time to dry before the temps > drop. By Thursday night, the lows are expected to hit freezing again with > a low of 22 predicted for Friday night. it looks like we are stuck in this > pattern of low night temps as long as the jet stream keeps coming out of > our northwest. We have an inch of snow predicted for Friday night, but at > least we are not in Michigan where they are predicting 3" to 6" of snow > tonight through tomorrow afternoon. I'm thinking about you growers in > Michigan right now!! > > Dennis Norton > IPM Specialist/Certified Nurseryman > Royal Oak Farm Orchard > 15908 Hebron Rd. > Harvard, IL 60033-9357 > Office (815) 648-4467 > Mobile (815) 228-2174 > Fax (609) > 228-2174http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.comhttp://www.royaloakfarmorchard.blogspot.comhttps://www.facebook.com/royaloakfarmorchard/ > > On 4/4/2016 5:44 PM, maurice tougas wrote: > > We will know better in a few days Christina. Wish I could sleep better! > Mo > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Christina M. Herrick < > <cmherr...@meistermedia.com>cmherr...@meistermedia.com> wrote: > >> Does anyone have any losses from the latest cold snap? Dave and Christina >> from *American Fruit Grower* would like to talk to you about it. Send >> Dave Eddy (de...@meistermedia.com) or Christina Herrick ( >> cmherr...@meistermedia.com) a note. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> apple-crop mailing list >> apple-crop@virtualorchard.net >> http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop >> >> > > > -- > Maurice Tougas > Tougas Family Farm > Northborough,MA 01532 > 508-450-0844 > > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing > listapple-crop@virtualorchard.nethttp://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > >
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