Re: Apple-Crop: Apple/Cherry Replant Disease

2007-01-07 Thread amity
How do any of the cover crops recommended for bio-fumigation effect these toxins, and do high rates of precipitation leach them away? Do we have a scientific formula for the chemical makeup, or a scientific name - as in organism - for this/these toxins-disease or vectors ? Darlyn On

Re: Apple-Crop: Re: BEES COLONY COLLAPSE DISORDER

2007-05-16 Thread amity
Comes with eating an apple a day! D. Del Boca I never realized pomologists were such great philosophers !   W. H.Butch  Palmer   -Original Message- From: apple-crop@virtualorchard.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf OfDave Rosenberger Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:15 PM To:

Apple-Crop: Referral needed

2007-06-22 Thread amity
Hello Listers: Can anyone refer me to a turf specialist in USDA Extension so that I can find these answers? There was a USDA SARE project completed a number of years ago which demonstrated the potential to take income from two farm enterprises: Trellised tree fruit grown over a grass

Re: Apple-Crop: Referral needed

2007-06-23 Thread amity
John: That was my take to initially, but the management program is such that it is not an issue. How about the referral re turf species? Darlyn On Friday, June 22, 2007, at 08:37 PM, John L. Belisle wrote: Food safety, and E-coli just jump out at me with the very thought of what you

Re: Apple-Crop: Referral needed - orchards and sheep

2007-06-25 Thread amity
Hi Bill: Well, here you are from some of the best sheep and wool production country in North America. Nice to have your comments. Certainly range production and character of range flocks is quite different from the production in the farm environment. I'd like to see the Spanish

Apple-Crop: Orchard floor and fertility management

2007-06-25 Thread amity
Hello Bill, Thanks for the direction to Linda and your comments. Regarding turf species: Orchard grass, though a great forage producer, and probably excellent habitat for predatory insect species, is pretty rank for an underfoot turf in a U-pick orchard. I'd like to find something more

Re: Apple-Crop: Bee researchers close in on Colony Collapse Disorder

2007-10-08 Thread amity
Hi Dan: Thanks for your post. A special request: When sending to our e mail address as part of a group mailing, would you please make ours a "b.c.c." - blind copy, so that our e mail address remains private? Thank you kindly--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Dan Digiacomandrea [EMAIL

Re: Apple-Crop: Treated posts - Organic Certification

2008-02-12 Thread amity
Hi Les, Thanks for your reply. More specifically, if I understood the WSDA reply correctly, is that treated posts may not touch the plants. So I have thought, to comply, the detail using treated posts would need to have poured concrete footings (one could pull these types of for

RE: Apple-Crop: Yakima Herald-Republic Online - Yakima, Washington News, Classifieds, Information, Advertising

2008-04-28 Thread amity
Tim: Do you have reports on what happened in N.W. WA - Skagit Whatcom?--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: "Smith, Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: "Apple-Crop" apple-crop@virtualorchard.netSubject: RE: Apple-Crop: Yakima Herald-Republic Online - Yakima, Washington News, Classifieds, Information,