North Willamette Research and Extension Center News
"Down on the Farm" is the main newsletter for NWREC. It is published typically 3 times per year and includes highlights of activities from the entire farm.
Presents pesticide and herbicide application rates and recommendations, by tree growth stage, for pests that infect fruit trees. Covers apples, pears, and cherries. Provides (1) spray program for nutrients; (2) dilutions table for wettable powder and liquid products; (3) natural enemy impact guide...
By Dalila Rendon, Jay Pscheidt, Achala KC, Rick Hilton
This publication provides vineyard owners with approaches for finding the first occurrence of grape powdery mildew. The publication covers tactics to manage powdery mildew, including use of fungicides and canopy management. It also discusses effective scouting techniques based on the key...
A guide for the prospective and novice Christmas tree grower. Includes how to evaluate risk and potential for return. Discusses the tree growing cycle, tasks and time requirements, pertinent laws and regulations, and costs, returns, and taxes. Describes 11 popular species (color photos) including...
This publication describes what home and community gardeners can do to monitor and responsibly manage spotted wing drosophila in their tree fruits and berries.
This publication describes blueberry cultivars, including northern highbush, southern highbush, rabbiteye, lowbush, and half-high types. It includes information on commercial value and identifies which cultivars work well for home gardens.
Provides general rules for training, pruning, and limb bending, and explains open-center, central-leader, and espalier training. Outlines specific guidelines for training and pruning apple, pear, sweet cherry, sour cherry, peach, prune, plum, apricot, fig, persimmon, walnut, hazelnut, and chestnut...
Pacific Northwest blueberry growers must identify and control a number of bacterial and fungal diseases in order to ensure the highest yields possible (profitable yields). Fortunately, only a few of the diseases that occur on highbush blueberry in this region cause significant losses when left unchecked.
Oregon Small Farm News is a free online newsletter that concentrates on both commercial small farm entrepreneurs as well as non-commercial small acreage landowners. Our focus embraces organic/biological and conventional farming systems.
Gardeners with small-scale orchards can take advantage of hazelnut varieties bred in recent years at Oregon State University that resist eastern filbert blight.
The ability to correctly identify cultivars of commercially produced blackberry fruit is important to the industry. This manual gives growers and processors a first step in identifying blackberry cultivars by the seeds of their fruit. It includes 17 commercially grown blackberry cultivars.
