Pre-Season Disease Clean-Up
Orchard clean up during the fall and winter months, can save some apple disease-associated headaches during the season. From …
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NC State Extension, NC State University
EPA Captan Draft Risk Assessment-Open Comment Period!
As many apple growers in the region can attest, captan has been an essential fungicide for apple disease management …
Fire Blight Survey-Urgent Please Respond!
Dear Southeastern Apple Growers: A U.S. research team including plant pathologists, horticulturalists, and economists has been formed to address and …
Apple Alert: Marssonina Leaf Blotch Confirmed in Western NC
Last week, Marssonina leaf blotch, caused by the fungal pathogen Marssonina coronaria was confirmed in several ‘Rome Beauty’ trees …
Apple Disease Update: Glomerella End Game
Pre-harvest Glomerella Considerations With ‘Gala’ apple harvest soon approaching in Western NC, it’s a good time to review fungicide application …
Apple Disease Update: Week of July 1
Glomerella Leaf Spot Update While areas of Henderson and Polk County NC received nearly 40% of the average annual rainfall …
Apple Disease Update: Week of June 24
For this week’s Apple Disease Update, I’d like to share some very preliminary observations from this year’s Glomerella leaf …
Apple Disease Update: Week of June 10
The past week has been relatively uneventful in regards to infection events compared to previous weeks. That said, relative …
We Want Your Disease!
So far the 2018 apple season has been defined by warm, humid, and very rainy weather. We are guessing …
Apple Disease Update (6/3/18): Welcome Glomerella
NEWA weather stations located in Polk and Henderson County apple orchards were reporting that 14-24 inches of rain fell …
Apple Disease Update: Week of May 27
The Good News: The sun came out last week to enable fungicide applications to be made in Western NC. The …
Apple Disease Update: 3rd and 4th Cover
Yesterday I posted an Apple Alert: Rain Addition, which focused on how to approach applying fungicides during extremely wet …