Take a virtual tour of International Fruit Tree Association post conference tour stops where there was much to see and learn.

Fire blight, the disease caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, can spread quickly from tree to tree. Once an outbreak ...

Phylloxera, a microscopic, aphid-like insect attacks grapevine roots and nearly wiped out Europe’s vineyards in the late 19th ...

Raw chicken was stored above raw lamb. Raw chicken shall be stored below on the lowest shelf in the walk-in cooler. Observed ...

Sales of netting infrastructure to protect agricultural crops from extreme weather events have increased in the past five years. Export markets are tightening their fruit quality expectations, with ...

A Cornell and Nature Conservancy 'Trees in Peril' conservation project is propagating ash trees resistant to emerald ash borer. If successful, the long-term project looks to reintroduce resistant ...

There are several advantages to planting bare-root trees: they are usually less expensive, easier for gardeners to transport, and they will grow their roots entirely into native soil (rather than ...

Late fall and winter are prime time for planting trees in Louisiana. If you’re interested in adding some fruit trees to your landscape, you should first familiarize yourself with the concept of ...

Here is a simple way to protect fruit on your backyard fruit trees from animals like birds and possums - perhaps even squirrels but we don't get them here so I can't say definitively although I do ...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens magnified 15,000 times in an image captured earlier this year with a scanning electron microscope at Iowa State University's Roy J. Carver High Resolution Microscopy Facility ...