Re: [Apple-Crop] TAP

2016-06-12 Thread Robert Barthel
I have an orchard in Mequon WI - just north of Milwaukee. I applied for TAP in October 2014. The process has been a nightmare. The local office required that I submit an orchard plan listing every tree by cultivar, age, rootstock, and row spacing. Each change in one of those criteria = a new

[Apple-Crop] Trying to kill asparagus

2017-05-05 Thread Robert Barthel
Hi, We are getting over run by wild asparagus in some of our orchard blocks. Has anyone found a method / herbicide to control asparagus? Thanks in advance. Bob Barthel Barthel Fruit Farm Mequon WI p.s. king bloom early varieties, full pink the rest. Frost in the forecast ___

[apple-crop-2] apple picking robot competition

2018-07-20 Thread Robert Barthel
https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2018/07/18/grad-students-demonstrate-knowledge-and-skills-robotics-ag/795524002/ UW River Falls to field apple-picking robot in international competition Pamela Kan-Rice, UC ANRPublished 10:02 a.m. CT July 18, 2018 UC-ANR-Apple-pickers.jpg (Photo: UC A