Good Fruit Grower

GOOD DEALS NURSERY STOCK M.7/M.26/M.9 EMLA BUD 9 M.9 NAKB T-337 NIC® 29 PAJAM 2® GENEVAS CopenHaven Farms Nursery CopenHaven Quality Oregon-Grown Rootstock & Seedlings for Fruit, Flowering, and Shade Trees. Since 1982, Specializing in Apple, Cherry, Plum, and Pear Rootstock. email: copenhavenfarms@comcast.net Banning ORCHARDS & NURSERY Quality Fruit Trees We have over 55 years of experience in the nursery business. Now taking growing contracts for the following varieties: USPP #13,753 USPP #16,624 USPP #10104 USPP #7197 Most all rootstocks! 4000 Grant Road, East Wenatchee., WA 98802 509-884-7041 GFG BOOKSTORE Orchard Pest Management $20 ORDER FROM: Good Fruit Grower, 105 S. 18th St., Suite 217, Yakima, WA 98901-2177, or call toll-free: 1-800-487-9946 (local number 509-853-3520); fax 509-853-3521. GOOD FRUIT GROWER ADS WORK FOR YOU! www.copenhavenfarms.com 12990 SW Copenhaven Road • Gaston OR PH 503-985-7161 • FAX 503-985-7876 like our rootstock, our service will grow on you. all fruit tree rootstock is oregon certified virus free. canby, oregon NEW see all of our offerings, plus availabilities, at www.willamettenurseries.com 503-263-6405 Toll Free 1-800-852-2018 REAL ESTATE PNW estate wine producer looking for investor/partner to provide capital to expand production and marketing. Ag Com Real Estate HORTICULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES!! • OTHER ORCHARDS and WINEGRAPE VINEYARDS for SALE Well maintained, mostly red winegrape vineyard for sale, Horse Heaven Hills AVA. • AG COM WILL SELL YOUR ORCHARD or WINEGRAPE VINEYARD For more information contact: Ag Com Real Estate, LLC :: Eric Weinheimer Designated Broker ERIC WEINHEIMER: (509) 845-4389 ewagrealestate@hotmail.com HIGH DENSITY wils n ORCHARD & VINEYARD SUPPLY New and Innovative Ideas…We Help You Make Money! 800-232-1174 on-line catalog: ON-LINE ORDERING: goodfruit.com www.goodfruit.com www.wilsonirr.com Se hablá Español Now at six locations: •BUENA 509-865-9100 •GRANDVIEW 509-882-2500 •MATTAWA 509-932-4242 •PASCO 509-544-9000 •WENATCHEE 509-667-8180 •YAKIMA 509-453-9983 GOOD FRUIT GROWER MAY 1, 2012 41 Products and services for progressive growers

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• Good To Know: Preventing premature fruit drop pears
• Ready for the audit? GRAs2p can help growers bring their orchards into compliance with GlobalGAP standards.
• Watch out, codling moth! Spiders will eat anything they can physically tackle, including codling moth larve and pupae.
• Organic plantings of most apple varieties are on the decline.
• Promising organic herbicide discovered: Manuka oil holds potential as a preemergent organic herbicide.
• Eastern organic apples: Theyre rare use its so tough to produce them.beca
• Last Bite: Arctic Snow
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• Good To Go
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• A sustainability report card for juice grapes
• Choosing not to replant
• Vineyard replanting economics
• Organic viticulture is timing
• Going without sulfites
• Finding a better way: Bill and Greg Powers could write their own book on organic grape and wine production.
• Lone organic grower finds it tough
• Silverbullet is short lived: A growth regulator used to grow feathered trees that gowers need is no longer available.
• Branching agent discovered by chance: When Don Elfring began testing cyclanilide on fruit trees, no one knew what effect it would have.
• Head of the class: Young apple growers prepare for leadership roles.
• Need a lawyer?
• Fruit drop is not simple to manage? Thinning in Spring and stopping preharvest drop are two sides of the same coin.
• What do rootstocks do? Theyre not just for dwarfing fruit trees anymore.