A new issue of Scaffolds Fruit Newsletter for the week of 7/20 has
been posted at:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/scaffolds/2009/
INSECTS
- Orchard Radar Digest
- Model Building
- Stink bug in the Hudson Valley
DISEASES
- Indar for apple and plum
CHEM NEWS
- Indar expanded registra
Craig, the answer to your first question is definitely yes. You have no idea
what I've seen done around here. There are many farmers who apply pesticides as
a routine, in fact, the bigger the inorganic production, the more likely the
pesticides are applied indiscriminately because it's more expe
Re draining rivers:
Right now, the Columbia River (the major source of most of Pacific
Northwest irrigation Water) is running at the rate of about 75,000 cubic
feet per second.
We'll be careful not to use more than the 4 to 5% of the river flow used
for irrigation so that the people who are fis
Keep it out of your eyes and don't drink it, and you will be fine.
Different forms of sulfides are also used in dandruff shampoos.
I would not take a bath in any water with dissolved inorganic
pesticides, but lime sulfur, I'd put that in my jacuzzi to simulate
the hot Springs.
The
My response to Dave somehow bounced off Apple-crop list. So here it is for you
all to read - see below. But before you read my response, lest anybody mistakes
me for an organic fanatic, let me clarify that my orchard is conventional, but
I prefer taking a middle of the road path. I don't like to
Excellent Dave and Chris,
Now this discussion is getting somewhere.
Here in Ireland it is said that for every calorie that gets to the
consumers mouth, 9 calories of fossil fuel are used to generate that
calorie. With fossil fuels as a non-sustainable resource (due to
depleting reserves as well a
do you seriously believe that most fruit poducers do not use "as little
pesticides as possible" and instead "assault" their fruit with pesticides?
that is an incredibly backward statement. Pesticides cost money, some can be
pretty darn expensive. I, for one, do not like to waste money and alw
I don't mean to belabor this topic, but I don't think its been properly
addressed yet in this thread. Taste is subjective and very difficult to
objectively sort out. But in my 27 years of experience working with fruit and
vegetable growers, organic and conventional, with a personal interest in t
If livestock, dairy ?and poultry farmers quit raising their ?products. ?the
supply of manure for composting or fertilizers will be nil.? I posed this
question to an invited organic grower (the originator of the Topato),? speaker
at the SW Illinois Vegetable Growers meeting in 1968:? "where is th
Axel
We too use lime sulfur and I agree that the benefits are numerous.
Twenty years ago we bought sulfur by the ton as our non synthetic
fungicide of choice for the production of peaches here in the humid
northeast. That ceased when a friend was hospitalized due to a severe
allergic reacti
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