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In-orchard research funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program is helping apple growers respond to pests with the latest management practices. He also initiated a project to evaluate whether exclusion netting, used for protecting apples from hailstorm damage, might also protect the fruit from orchard pests. "Growers selling hail-damaged fruit for juice that would otherwise have sold at retail prices can see as much as a 98% decrease in the economic value of their crop", Basedow says. [Extracted from the article] |
