GENEVA, N.Y. - Spring got
off to a good start for those New
York apple growers who attend
ed the Cornell Apple Integrate
Pest Manage-ment (IPM) In
depth School in March in
Geneva. The fruit school attract
ed more than 72 participants.
Jeff Soons from Soons
Orchard Inc., in New Hampton,
N.Y. just 65 miles outside of New
York City, considered the school
a “very good indoctrination into
all the ins and outs of pest con
trol.”
“We don’t use IPM as intense
ly as some growers, but I defi
nitely expect to use some of
what I learned,” he said. The
Soons family has been growing
apples for 89 years. They farm
25 acres of apples along with an
assortment of sweet com, pump
kins, peaches, and other truck
and farm-market crops.
“We have signed up with
Orange County Extension
Service for help with scouting
for insects on our apple blocks
hoping to gain information that
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will help us limit and space out
sprays better,” he said. Apples
are one of the most intensely
sprayed fruit crops, because they
are very vulnerable to damage
from insects and diseases.
“Attendance was highest
from New York State,” said
NYSAES entomologist Art
Agnello, who was chairman of
the organizing committee.
“There were 40 growers, four
consultants, and 15 representa
tives from industry and govern
ment.”
The purpose of the course
was to provide a forum on the
recommended methods of incor
porating an integrated pest
management and decision
process into orchard manage
ment operations throughout the
year. TTie format of the school
was based on grower feedback
from previous IPM fruit schools.
“In the past, growers have
told us they have difficulty
incorporating research-based
management recommendations
into their day-to-day opera-
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tions,” said Agnello. “We con
structed these sessions with
more of a grower’s-eye view of
the topics.”
Speakers were organized by
topics that related to each other,
and were asked to relate their
recommendations to specific
times of the growing season, and
to include other issues a grower
would be dealing with at the
same time.
At the school, 29 speakers
presented 52 separate talks on
apple topics in the field of ento
mology, plant pathology, horti
cultural science, fruit and veg
etable science, natural
resources, cooperative exten
sion, agricultural engineering,
and production practices. Most
of the speakers whom were from
the New York State Agricultural
Experiment Station in Geneva,
the Hudson Valley Lab at
Highland, and CCE. Three guest
speakers include Helmut Riedl,
from Oregon State University,
Starker Wright, from the
University of Massachusetts,
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and Jim Gallott, a grower from
Vermont.
Speakers gave their best
advice on constructing a pest
management plan for each part
of the growing season for each
developmental stage of the
apple. Input was solicited from
other specialists as well as the
school audience on how to best
integrate and coordinate each
strategy into an overall orchard
system. In addition, information
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ed practices, including promis
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trials, low-spray options, and
alternative technologies that
may be applicable in the near
future
The event was sponsored by
the Cornell Fruit Statewide
Program Committee.
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