Fruit Matters – Tree Fruit News April 2024

AgWeatherNet (AWN) has rolled out 24-hour temperature inversion forecasts for 21 Mesonet tower stations.

Welcoming the new IPM – ITT Extension Coordinator.

Tobin Northfield, WSU’s new Endowed Chair of Tree Fruit Entomology and Integrated Pest Management.

Explore the transformative role of robotic technology in pollinating apples, offering a sustainable solution in the face of declining natural pollinators.

In perennial fruit trees, most nutrient uptake occurs between bloom and rapid vegetative growth. Sweet cherry root growth starts when soil temperatures reach approximately 59 F during spring, usually after bloom in Washington soils. In…

Deraeocoris brevis is an abundant predaceous true bug found in Pacific Northwest apple and pear orchards. Deraeocoris brevis may consume approximately 200 psylla eggs per day and nearly 400 nymphs during its complete lifecycle.

In this article, we review the key questions answered by experts about managing crop load, nutrition, rootstocks, and harvest for Honeycrisp.

This month, AgWeatherNet (AWN) is highlighting two new features on their website and inviting you to join the AWN Staff for their third Weather With AWN virtual meeting.

DAS models begin as spring arrives!

For 2024, the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission approved $420,012 to help fund four (4) new Apple Horticulture and Postharvest projects.

For 2024, the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission approved $382,412 to help fund six (6) new Apple Crop Protection projects.

A presentation by Jonathan Contezac, Field Meteorologist at AWN Mount Vernon

Rebecca Schmidt Jeffris discussed spider mites, rust mites, and blister mites: how different active ingredients work, efficacy, pesticide effects on natural enemies, weed associations and pesticide impacts on outbreaks at NCW Tree Fruit Days. NCW…