Re: [apple-crop] management advice for hail damaged orchard?
Is it PYO, retail, or to be packed? A lot depends on the juice market so you would want to prevent as much rot as possible. For the crop insurance what matters is production to count. An apple with enough hail damage to knock it out of U.S. Fcy doesn't count. If it is thinned off it doesn't count either. The crop insurance appraisal work sheet will end up with bu/acre to count. So, if there is 10% of the crop that makes U.S. Fcy or better after a hail event it is the same as a frost event that leaves 10% of a crop. This is the effect of trying to remove the damaged fruit. Technically no appraisal can be done until all thinning is complete though. Also an insured is expected to care for the crop so there is no further damage although if it adjusts to 100% damage now I don't see how it can get worse. Art Kelly Kelly Orchards Acton, ME On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jon Clements wrote: > Hi everyone, what would you suggest is good management advice for a 100% > hail damage (per crop insurance) orchard. Minimal fungicide and insecticide > every few weeks? What about taking the damaged fruit off? Recommended, or > does it make a difference? If we should take it off, how? > > Thanks. > > Jon > > -- > Jon Clements > aka 'Mr Honeycrisp' > UMass Cold Spring Orchard > 393 Sabin St. > Belchertown, MA 01007 > 413-478-7219 > umassfruit.com > > ___ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop > > -- Art Kelly Kelly Orchards Acton, ME ___ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
Re: [apple-crop] management advice for hail damaged orchard?
Hi! If there is no hope for fruit sales! I would do a good rate of copper/Manzate to make sure all fireblight shoot blight is shut down. Manzate has a 77day phi so no fruit sales if applied now. Not sure manzate/copper would be of any value for FB. Strep within hours after the storm is good. I would do several periodic applications of capatan/ziram to ensure that no rots develope in the wood, shoots, trunks- ie black rot, white rot or necteria canker which can get established- the copper will help with the necteria canker. I would guess that within hours/days wood wounds would not be susceptible for any more pathogen infection. So why would periodic sprays be needed? Vincent Philion IRDA ___ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
Re: [apple-crop] management advice for hail damaged orchard?
Jon-First Strep within 12 hours for trama blight phase of Fireblight. Then after calling my crop insurace agent and having it declared 100% loss with no crop sale potential I would look to protec thte trees from disease. If there is no hope for fruit sales! I would do a good rate of copper/Manzate to make sure all fireblight shoot blight is shut down. Manzate has a 77day phi so no fruit sales if applied now. I would do several periodic applications of capatan/ziram to ensure that no rots develope in the wood, shoots, trunks- ie black rot, white rot or necteria canker which can get established- the copper will help with the necteria canker. Win Win Cowgill Co-Founder Apple Crop List Serv Editor Horticultural News Professor and Area Fruit Agent New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Rutgers Cooperative Extension PO Box 2900 314 State Route 12, Bldg. 2 Flemington, NJ 08822-2900 Office 908-788-1339 Fax- 908-806-4735 Email: cowg...@njaes.rutgers.edu www.horticulturalnews.org/ www.virtualorchard.net/ http://virtualorchard.net/njfruitfocus/index.html Twitter @mrsuncrisp http://www.appletesters.net http://nc140.org On Jul 9, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Jon Clements wrote: > Hi everyone, what would you suggest is good management advice for a 100% hail > damage (per crop insurance) orchard. Minimal fungicide and insecticide every > few weeks? What about taking the damaged fruit off? Recommended, or does it > make a difference? If we should take it off, how? > > Thanks. > > Jon > > -- > Jon Clements > aka 'Mr Honeycrisp' > UMass Cold Spring Orchard > 393 Sabin St. > Belchertown, MA 01007 > 413-478-7219 > umassfruit.com > ___ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop ___ apple-crop mailing list apple-crop@virtualorchard.net http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop