I would appreciate it if you would visit the site listed below, review the petition to the USDA and hopefully sign it. thanks. Mike ...
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Jul 5, 2001 4:18 am
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Hey, I signed the petition....anyone want a good read? 'The botany of Desire' -Michael Pollan. Very interesting views....the first section is all on apples. A...
John Defayette
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Jul 6, 2001 3:44 pm
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Brian Caldwell
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Jul 10, 2001 7:57 pm
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... Was there any tissue death down into the spur? Or just the blossoms themselves? We had the same weather pattern here. On different note: in our Surround...
Jim Gallott
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Jul 17, 2001 7:54 pm
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Sawfly captures are totals per trap per year. ... -- Jim Gallott West Meadows Farm, New Haven VT jgallot@... http://www.westmeadowsfarm.com...
Jim Gallott
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Jul 17, 2001 7:56 pm
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How would you characterize your Surround block of trees in comparison to those where Imidan and other chemicals are used? What are you seeing as to fruit...
Doreen Howard
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Jul 17, 2001 8:01 pm
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Fruit size or condition doesn't seem to be affected much, but the surround block is a mix of Disease resistant varieties, and the other is a solid Mac block,...
Jim Gallott
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Jul 17, 2001 10:52 pm
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Hi Jim, good to hear from you. Tissue death seemed to extend into the spur in some cases but in most mortality was restricted to the blossom. EAS activity...
Gord Hawkes
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Jul 18, 2001 1:36 am
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SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE July 15, 2001 Sunday Metro Edition Wounded to the core; Apple industry slump has growers leaving By WAYNE FALDA; Tribune Staff Writer ...
brian caldwell
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Jul 26, 2001 12:53 pm
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Orchard Hill Farm will host an on farm demonstration on Saturday August 24th to demonstrate the use of "Surround" a Kaolin Clay based product, to protect our 5...
Brian Caldwell
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Jul 26, 2001 9:44 pm
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unsubscribe Brian Caldwell <bac11@...> wrote: Orchard Hill Farm will host an on farm demonstration on Saturday August 24th to demonstrate the use of...
richard stoller
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Jul 27, 2001 5:19 am
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Hi folks, Here are two interesting comments on the overall state of organic apple production in the US (from the Apple-Crop listserve)-- ... Hello All: For...
Brian Caldwell
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Jul 27, 2001 2:15 pm
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Dear Applenet readers, I bought a 20 acre, 4000 tree apple orchard that was planted in 1981 and had last been maintained in 1997. We've been cleaning it up...
Walter Phelps
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Jul 30, 2001 11:49 am
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... Depending on your location and the variety, don't automatically assume it is frog-eye. At least here it was a pretty bad year for cedar-apple rust, and...
Jim Gallott
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Jul 30, 2001 12:05 pm
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... Next question would be if there was any oozing. With fireblight, you should have seen the bacteria 'leaking' out of the infections. -- Jim Gallott West...
Jim Gallott
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Jul 30, 2001 12:14 pm
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Thanks, Jim. The spots are on all of the trees, Macs, Cortland,and Macoun. Is there a good way to definitively differentiate frog-eye from CAR? A pretty ...
Walter Phelps
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Jul 30, 2001 9:42 pm
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This photo shows the leaf spotting that I have throughout the orchard to a pretty severe degree. Does this look like frog-eye?...
Walter Phelps
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Jul 31, 2001 12:00 pm
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... Those spots are way bigger than what you'd get from a hypersensitive rust reaction. Looks like frog-eye. -- Jim Gallott West Meadows Farm, New Haven VT ...
Jim Gallott
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Aug 1, 2001 5:00 pm
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Thanks Jim, Do you think it will take repeated fungicide applications to rid the orchard of the frog-eye? Its hard to imagine improved orchard sanitation...
Walter Phelps
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Aug 1, 2001 8:16 pm
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Brian Caldwell
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Aug 1, 2001 8:39 pm
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... Brian gave good suggestions. Sanitation as far as pruning out any cankers, and also removing any persistent fruitlets (Cortland can be particularly bad at...
Jim Gallott
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Aug 2, 2001 1:54 am
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Hi all I will throw in my two cents....the black on the veins-Is that not mycelium growth as well? Not that it matters...Sulphur seems to be our one salvation...
John Defayette
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Aug 2, 2001 2:51 pm
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Hi folks, Our harvest is going very well this year, with a very heavy crop and the least insect damage ever, thanks to Surround. We did have an unexpected ...
brian caldwell
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Oct 9, 2001 7:19 am
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Dear Brian, We had what I assume is "frog-eye" all through our orchard in all varieties. I will try to attach a photo of a typical leaf. Like yours, it is only...
Phelps Company
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Oct 9, 2001 3:32 pm
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Here is the photo of our leaf spotting taken in late July. Walter Phelps...
Phelps Company
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Oct 9, 2001 3:39 pm
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Thanks Walter, Yes, I think you are right--I didn't recognize my problem as frog eye because it is in its early infection stage and doesn't really look like a ...
Brian Caldwell
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Oct 9, 2001 6:08 pm
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Hi folks, Here is an interesting comment on Surround from the "apple-crop" listserve, in reference to doubts about its potential commercial acceptance: Dear...
Brian Caldwell
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Oct 31, 2001 8:48 pm
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Greetings folks from the great white north (well not white yet). I am putting the orchard to bed for another season and am going to whitewash the trunks of a...
2002 Apple Greetings! The place to be for apple growers here in the Northeast every March is at our annual networking meeting in the Berkshire Mountains of...
Michael Phillips
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Feb 11, 2002 1:44 pm
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Hi folks, At our recent low spray/organic meeting in western Mass, I mentioned that Trichogramma ostriniae is now commercially available. IPM Laboratories ...
