Getting Ready for Cherry Season
Getting Ready for Cherry Season. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.
I think I am safe in saying that spring has finally arrived and that the growing season is really under way. One of the first crops to start looking at is cherries and according to Byron Phillips, Sales Representative with Valent
PHILLIPS: Well right now we are running way behind last year. We had a really unusual light year last year in that we started out the season really early, then we hit bloom and then it got cold and so we got set behind last year basically from bloom on. This year we’re behind from the first of the year on and we’re really delayed with our bloom. At one point in time we were about 3 weeks behind.
Phillips says that means there is a lot of activity going on right now.
PHILLIPS: What that’s doing for us is a couple of things. We’re seeing a lot of usage of Esteem in the orchards right now, not only because bees are coming in early and blooms are not open yet and growers are trying to get their pre-bloom sprays on. They can’t use diazinon because the bees are in the orchard and diazinon has the closed cab requirement right now.
That means it’s a good time to use Esteem.
PHILLIPS: Esteem is really shining in pre-bloom applications this year as a diazinon replacement in cherries primarily, as a pre-bloom spray in apples for scale and a pre-bloom spray in pears for scale and cilla. Esteem is the product right now that is really the hot topic and really moving out.
More tomorrow.
That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.
