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  • Researchers publish results on crop load management of cider apples

    Dr. Gregory Peck and his team at Cornell Univesity of David Zakalik, Michael Brown, and Craig Kahlke recently published several papers on the results of their research on crop load management of cider apples. Some cider apple varieties are notorioulsy biennial bearing which “exacerbates supply chain issues for cidermakers in North America.” Their results suggest

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  • 2023 SCRI Annual Report: Cornell Cooperative Extension – Lake Ontario Fruit Program | Extension Activities 2023

    Summary:In January of 2023, a series of 3 virtual nationwide meetings was conducted by the PACMAN Research and Extension team to update growers about the current state of precision crop load management of apples. At the end of February and early March, CCE LOF conducted 3 Ag-tech sessions in person in Rochester, NY, and one

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  • Developers Conference for Precision Crop Load Management of Apples

    8-January, 2024. Hosted by Dr. Terence Robinson, Cornell University, via Zoom. YouTube Playlist of all of the following presentations…or link below to individual video of presentation(s). Digital needs identified by the PCLM University team Terence Robinson Progress on digital imaging of tree structure Yu Jiang Progress on flower/fruitlet/limb identification for robotic pruning, etc. Long He

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