Category: Tender Fruit

by Kristy Grigg-McGuffin July 3, 2019 0

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Email Subscribers Can Now Select Crop Preference

ONfruit currently offers a range of production and pest management information for a variety of fruit crops grown in Ontario.Continue Reading

by wendymcfaddensmith June 30, 2019 0

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Spotted Wing Drosophila Update, June 18-24, 2019

This post contains a summary of trap counts for June 18-24, 2019. The numbers reported are number of SWD perContinue Reading

by Erica Pate June 21, 2019 0

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Registrations for Spotted Wing Drosophila, June 2019

Registrations for SWD in 2019 are below. Insecticides are only part of managing SWD. Growers need to use as manyContinue Reading

by AmandaGreen June 19, 2019 0

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Dealing with Ruts in the Orchard and Vineyard

By Anne Verhallen, Soil Management Specialist (Horticulture Crops) and Amanda Green, Tree Fruit Specialist This spring has been one forContinue Reading

by AmandaGreen June 3, 2019 0

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Re-Cropping After an Application of Alion Herbicide

by: Kristen Obeid, OMAFRA Weed Management Specialist- Horticulture Some growers who are pulling out orchards or individual trees are wonderingContinue Reading

by Erica Pate May 29, 2019 0

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Mako Insecticide label expanded via Minor Use Program for control of spotted wing drosophila on bushberries, caneberries, strawberries and cherries and wasps on cherries in Canada

J. Chaput, OMAFRA, Minor Use Coordinator, Guelph The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of an URMULEContinue Reading

by Kristy Grigg-McGuffin May 24, 2019 0

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Fire Blight Risk Remains High, May 24-29

Infection risk remains high to extreme/exceptional in many apple and pear growing regions of the province

by Kristy Grigg-McGuffin May 23, 2019 0

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Airblast Spraying in Poor Conditions

OMAFRA Application Technology Specialist discusses impacts of spraying in unfavourable weather

Image of developing pear fruitlet infected with fire blight

by Kristy Grigg-McGuffin May 21, 2019 0

Apples Diseases Pears Pest Management

Fire Blight Infection Risk Continues

Warmer temperatures and rain forecast this week put apple and pear orchards in bloom at risk of fire blight infection

by Kristy Grigg-McGuffin May 17, 2019 0

Apples Diseases Pears Pest Management

Fire Blight Risk Increases With Warm, Wet Weekend

The warm, dry weather in recent days has helped move growth in apple and pear along. Orchards in Essex, Chatham-Kent,Continue Reading