Midwest Tree Fruit Handbook
Midwest Tree Fruit Handbook

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Published: 1989

Total Pages: 48

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Abstract: This tree fruit production guide for Midwestern fruit growers, designed to be used with annually revised state spray schedules and with fruit newsletters, provides information on production practices and pest control. It covers pesticide safety and handling, sprayer application and calibration, orchard weeds and grasses, tree fruit diseases, insects and mites, wildlife control, growth regulators and spray adjuvants, and fruit pollination.

Midwest Tree Fruit Handbook
Midwest Tree Fruit Handbook

Author: R. A. Hayden

Publisher:

Published: 1998-03

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 9780788144639

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Intended for use in conjunction with the spray guide of the home state of the Midwestern tree fruit grower. Production practices and pest control information will be useful over several years. Addresses pesticide safety; sprayer use and calibration; insects and mites; insecticides and mitecides; IPM; scouting procedures and decision rules for apple IPM; using traps to monitor apple insect pests; apple, pear and stone fruit diseases; fungicides and bactericides; orchard weeds and grasses; herbicides for fruit crops; apple disorders; general mgmt. practices; growth regulators and spray adjuvants; fruit pollination; and wildlife control.