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FIELD DAY ANNOUNCEMENT

It's not too early to mark your calendar for the annual N.Y. Fruit Pest Control Field Day, which will take place during Labor Day week on Sept. 8 and 9, as dictated by tradition. For those who keep track of such things, we’re reverting to our traditional practice of holding the Hudson Valley installment on the first day, and then moving to Geneva for the western NY perspective on the second day. Activities will commence in Highland on Wednesday, the 9th, with registration, coffee, etc., at the Hudson Valley Laboratory, 8:30 am. The tour will proceed to the orchards to view plots and preliminary data from field trials involving new fungicides, miticides, and insecticides on apples. On Thursday, the 9th, Geneva participants will register starting at 8:30 in the lobby of Barton Lab, after which we will then view and discuss results from field trials on tree fruits and grapes. It is anticipated that the tour of field plots will be completed by noon. Save the dates.

LOTS FOR SALE

Yep, as Alfred E. Neuman would say, we still have lots of copies of the Proceedings from our Apple IPM In-Depth School (held last March in Geneva) for sale, and it’s still worthwhile to point out their potential as a valuable reference resource in your apple management library. This syllabus contains the proceedings plus supplementary references on some 50 presentations given by 30 different speakers.

The topics run sequentially from the dormant season until post-harvest, and cover management considerations for an extensive rundown of apple pests — arthropod, disease, weed, and mammal. 280 pages, including misc. articles (NY Fruit Quarterly, J. Econ. Entomol., Mass. Fruit Notes), plus several bulletins and manuals published by Cornell Coop. Ext. (Integrated Weed and Soil Management in Fruit Plantings; Wildlife Damage Management in Fruit Orchards), NRAES (Orchard Spraying: Getting Results; Hydraulic nozzles for boom sprayers; On-Farm Agrichemical Handling Facilities), USDA (Fire blight - Its nature, prevention, and control), and NYS-IPM (Apple IPM: A Guide for Sampling and Managing Major Apple Pests in New York State, 1999 Revision). The cost is $30 (or $25 if you pick it up in person so I don't have to ship it); send me a check payable to "Cornell University" or contact me if you need instructions on using a Purchase Order.

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