Re: [apple-crop] Freeze/Frost Damage

2016-04-05 Thread kellyorchards 
We are not quite green tip and hit 15F last night and forecast for low teens 
early tomorrow.

Art Kelly
Kelly Orchards
Acton, Maine




Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE TabletDennis Norton 
 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) 228-2174
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.blogspot.com
https://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 
 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.

 


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Re: [apple-crop] Freeze/Frost Damage

2016-04-05 Thread Hugh Thomas 
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> 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.
>>
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Re: [apple-crop] Freeze/Frost Damage

2016-04-05 Thread Dennis Norton 
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) 228-2174
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.com
http://www.royaloakfarmorchard.blogspot.com
https://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 
mailto: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.


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Re: [apple-crop] Freeze/Frost Damage

2016-04-04 Thread maurice tougas 
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> 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.
>
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Re: [apple-crop] Freeze/Frost Damage

2016-04-04 Thread Peter Werts 
You may find this of interest.  I read through it a few years back and found
some helpful information.  

 

"Frost Protection Fundamentals, Practices and Economics", 

* Table of contents and background information:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y7223e/y7223e00.HTM 

* Direct link to the PDF: http://www.fao.org/3/a-y7223e.pdf

 

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Peter

 

 

=

Peter Werts

Specialty Crops Project Manager

IPM Institute of North America, Inc.

1020 Regent St. 

Madison WI 53715

Office: 608 232-1410

Cell: 612 518-0319

Fax: 608 232-1440

  pwe...@ipminstitute.org

  www.ipminstitute.org

 

 

 

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Subject: [apple-crop] Freeze/Frost Damage

 

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.

 

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