Good Fruit Grower

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE MAY 1, 2012 www.goodfruit.com VOL. 63, NO. 9

• Cover
• 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
• Classified
• Advertiser Index
• Good Deals
• Good To Go
• Quick Bites
• 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.