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  Peaches

  MSU Extension offers programming and resources to assist growers in selecting peach varieties, insect and disease management, marketing strategies, rootstocks, tree training, cold hardiness, pheromone disruption, processing and fresh market peaches.

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• Dealing with water for irrigating

  Published on February 3, 2012
  The insurance of maintaining a produce crop with irrigation can be all but eliminated if the water being used contaminates the produce with food-borne illness. Here are a few considerations when implementing irrigation practices.

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  Southwest Michigan fruit update – April 2, 2019

  Published on April 2, 2019
  With warmer weather in March, snow has melted and plant growth has started. Buds are swollen.

• Southwest Michigan fruit update – July 30, 2018

  Published on July 31, 2018
  A cool dry week allows harvests to move quickly. Expect an increase in insect activity. Summer fruit harvest continues.

• Avoiding automatic failure of a GAP audit

  Published on March 18, 2011
  New factsheet covers the ways growers can automatically fail an audit and suggests ways of avoiding them

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  Southwest Michigan fruit update – March 25, 2020

  Published on March 25, 2020
  With warmer weather in March, the snow has melted and plant growth is starting.

• East Michigan fruit update – June 12, 2018

  Published on June 12, 2018
  Strawberry harvest is underway across the region. Apples have thinned well for most growers, but some touchup hand-thinning will still be needed in several varieties. We are still in primary apple scab season.

• Field day will highlight fruit insect and disease research

  Published on September 4, 2019
  Visit the Trevor Nichols Research Center in Fennville, Michigan, on Oct. 1, 2019, to learn the results of 2019 field research by MSU fruit specialists.

• Deadline for 2009 disaster payments looms

  Published on July 24, 2011
  July 29, 2011 is the deadline for fruit, row crops, vegetable and other crop producers to sign up for 2009 SURE Disaster Program.

• Fruit growers: if the 2010 freezes caused significant loss, you may qualify for disaster payments

  Published on April 12, 2011
  Fruit growers with any type of crop insurance coverage could collect disaster payments due to 2010 spring freezes.

• Fall mice and vole control is critical to reduce potential damage in orchards

  Published on November 27, 2013
  Now is the time when mice and voles are moving into fruit orchards.

• Lime sulfur sprays can improve spring disease control

  Published on April 6, 2011
  Early sprays of lime sulfur reduce disease inoculum in spring

• Managing orchard nutrition during an early spring

  Published on March 22, 2012
  Wise use of ground-applied fertilizers can help manage orchard nutrition during the 2012 early spring weather conditions.

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  Southwest Michigan fruit update — Aug. 29, 2017

  Published on August 29, 2017
  Peach harvest is winding down. Apple harvest picking up with Gala harvest.

• Who is eating the produce that I grow?

  Published on February 3, 2012
  When adopting food safety practices on the farm, it’s important to remember why and for whom it is being done.

• Integrate cover crops into your farming systems

  Published on March 7, 2011
  MSU Extension collaborates with other agencies to help farmers add cover crops and conservation tillage in their farming systems

• 2014 Farm Bill provides additional NAP buy-up coverage for 2012 fruit crop losses

  Published on August 1, 2014
  The 2014 Farm Bill provides retroactive buy-up coverage to Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program producers of eligible non-insurable fruit crops that qualify due to a natural disaster, such as the 2012 freeze.

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  Cottage to Commercial: Ingredients for a successful food business

  Published on March 28, 2014
  Cottage to Commercial training will help you understand how to turn your food business idea into a commercial reality.

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  Southwest Michigan fruit update – June 19, 2018

  Published on June 19, 2018
  The hot weather has ripened fruit quickly, ending strawberry harvest.

• Control options for mites in fruit crops

  Published on May 3, 2011
  There are many pesticides to control mites but their performance varies. This table will help you select the right product for your needs.

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  Southwest Michigan fruit update - July 3, 2018

  Published on July 3, 2018
  Summer fruit harvest is well underway. A very hot weekend moved fruit and fruit pests quickly.