The University of Vermont Apple Team within the Plant And Soil Science Department welcomes you to the

UVM Apple Orchard

The UVM Apple Program:

Extension and Research for the commercial tree fruit grower in Vermont and beyond...

Our commitment is to provide relevant and timely horticultural, integrated pest management, marketing and economics information to commercial tree fruit growers in Vermont and beyond. Please be sure to visit AIM (the Apple Information Manager) for more regional apple production information. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us.

UVM Apple Team Members

Dr. Elena Garcia and Dr. Lorraine Berkett,  Faculty

Terence Bradshaw,  Research Technician

 Jessica Reardon, Graduate Student

UVM Apple Orchard Blocks

Horticulture   IPM   Newsletters 

  Weather      Food Safety      Apple Industry Links

What's New in 2001

[Note: To read some of the information this year on our website

you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.]

 Weekly Update of Apple Bud Stages around the State

 Weekly Update of  DD Accumulation for Arthropod Pests

 Weekly Update of  DD Accumulation for Apple Scab Ascospore Maturity

  Vermont Apple Newsletter,  October 26, 2001

  Vermont Apple Newsletter,  September 27, 2001

  Vermont Apple Newsletter,  August 21, 2001

  Vermont Apple Newsletter,  July 25, 2001

   IPM Alert, July 7, 2001

  Vermont Apple Newsletter,  June 28, 2001

   IPM Alert, June 7, 2001

   Predictive Model and DD Accumulation for Plum Curculio Management

   IPM Alert, May 31, 2001

   Vermont Apple Newsletter,  May 25, 2001

   Weed Management Workshop -- On May 23 at UVM Hort.Res.Center - click for more info.

   C. Lyman Calahan Award Recipient for 2001 - - Jessica Reardon

   IPM Alert, May 2, 2001

   Vermont Apple Newsletter,  April 30, 2001

     IPM Alert, April 24, 2001

   Summary of UVM Apple Cultivar Evaluation (1995 NE-183 planting):  1998-2000

    Vermont Apple Newsletter,  March 30, 2001

      2001 IPM 'Quick' Summary for Monitoring Apple Arthropod Pests

   2001 Update to New England Apple Pest Management Guide

   Synopsis of Key Arthropods and Diseases Affecting Apples

   Time to Order the 2000-2001 New England Apple Pest Management Guide -- for each copy that you wish to receive, please send a check for $15.00 payable to THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT and mail it to:  Mariann Steen , UVM, Dept. of  Plant and Soil Science, Hills Building, Burlington, VT 05405.  Thank you.  It can be viewed at:

The 2000-2001 New England Apple Pest Management Guide

  Archived "What's New in 2000"

  Archived "What's New in 1999"

Check out AIM (Apple Information Manager): a collaborative Extension and research effort of the Universities of Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to bring timely, relevant, and useful apple production information to New England apple growers via the World Wide Web. AIM has excellent weather resources and helpful IPM decision making tools that should be of interest to all New England orchardists.

Subscribe to Grower E-mail List:

• VT-APPLE-IPM, is a seasonal e-mail newsletter detailing current orchard horticultural and pest management events in Vermont. To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@list.uvm.edu with the subscribe command as the first line of your message along with the list name and your first and last name.  For example:  sub vt-apple-ipm Henry Somebody   Once you are on, you may send a message to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to:  vt-apple-ipm@list.uvm.edu

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