Hi everyone, what would you suggest is good management advice for a 100%
hail damage (per crop insurance) orchard. Minimal fungicide and insecticide
every few weeks? What about taking the damaged fruit off? Recommended, or
does it make a difference? If we should take it off, how?
Thanks.
Jon
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Jon-First Strep within 12 hours for trama blight phase of Fireblight.
Then after calling my crop insurace agent and having it declared 100% loss with
no crop sale potential I would look to protec thte trees from disease.
If there is no hope for fruit sales! I would do a good rate of copper/Manza
Hi!
If there is no hope for fruit sales! I would do a good rate of copper/Manzate
to make sure all fireblight shoot blight is shut down. Manzate has a 77day phi
so no fruit sales if applied now.
Not sure manzate/copper would be of any value for FB. Strep within hours after
the storm is good.
Is it PYO, retail, or to be packed? A lot depends on the juice market so
you would want to prevent as much rot as possible. For the crop insurance
what matters is production to count. An apple with enough hail damage to
knock it out of U.S. Fcy doesn't count. If it is thinned off it doesn't
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