Good Fruit Grower

CROP MANAGEMENT & POLLINATION MARCH 15, 2013 www.goodfruit.com VOL. 64, NO. 6

• Cover
• Top five pollination tips: What growers can do to improve pollination success.
• Bee Care Center
• What could replace Manchurian?Many crab apples are available, but most are grown as ornamental trees.
• Optimizing pollination
• Integrated Crop Pollination: A new projects focus is effective pollination by all means necessary.
• Kill the pathogen: Full coverage at full rates will help prevent apple scab resistance.
• Apple name delights grower of WA 2
• WA 38 will have a name
• Working with copper: Copper sprays can cut costs and are effective against bacteria and fungi.
• Coding moth. Its whats for dinner: Part IV: Enhancing biocontrol.
• Living with cherry diseases
• Cherry quality expectations rise.
• Cherry growers focus on next season.
• Deer wars
• Got fruit? To promote a commodity effectively, find the strategic nugget
• No fruit, no funding
• Water inside grapes
• Preventing powdery mildew: Target sprays during the plants most susceptible time.
• Good To Go
• Good Job
• Good Stuff
• Good Deals
• Advertiser Index
• Classified
• Last Bite : Bee-mused
• Good to Know: Promotion and Management of pear fruiting
• Good to Know: Consumer expectations of apple quality