Considerations For Planting Season

Everyone’s situation is different. The video and information below share a few things for you to consider on your farm this spring:   Planting Into Dry Soils Here are a few questions to ask yourself when preparing to plant into dry soil conditions: Should I...

Increasing Yield of Cosmic Crisp® Apples

WA 38 (marketed as Cosmic Crisp) is a recently released apple cultivar from the WSU breeding program. At times, it experiences a heavy June drop, resulting in low yields. Applications of the ethylene inhibitor ReTain® Plant Growth Regulator during bloom on other apple...

Soil Health and Baby Tree Performance

One of the common challenges faced by apple growers when establishing new plantings is optimizing tree growth to get the allotted space filled as quickly as possible in order to begin setting crops in year 2 or 3 without stunting trees. Several factors are important...

Irrigation Initiation

What a difference a year makes! Last year, growers were well into the irrigation season by March 1st, while this year, we will need to be careful not to initiate irrigations too soon. Wet Spring conditions, particularly saturated soils, are conducive to early disease...

Early Season Nitrogen Strategies in a VERY Wet Year

Almond nitrogen needs are now in full swing, but with the extremely wet conditions, there is no need for irrigation, thus no ability for fertigation, which is the primary means of delivering nitrogen to the 1.3 million acres of almonds grown in California. Wet weather...