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Current Orchard Lab articles, plus an archival collection of PDFs from Bill Shane and colleagues. Search titles, summaries, crops, topics, and tags.
Bill Shane Historical Collection
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- Apple Scab A common apple leaf and fruit disease that shows up as olive-green to brown spots, especially in wet spring weather.
- Brown Rot A fungal fruit rot common on stone fruit that causes brown, fuzzy decay on fruit in the orchard or on the kitchen counter.
- Fire Blight A bacterial disease that causes wilted, blackened shoot tips and can spread quickly during warm, wet bloom.
- How to Take Useful Problem Photos A short guide to photographing fruit tree problems so you — or someone helping you — can see the full picture.
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Other materials from the Shane archive
Photos and spreadsheets from the same historical collection (not PDFs).
- Apple Cost of Production 2008 Excel spreadsheet (.xls) modeling apple cost of production, 2008. (1664 kb)
- Baby raccoons in sweet cherry trees Photo (jpg thumbnail) of baby raccoons found in sweet cherry trees.
- Bacterial spot leaf symptoms on plum Photo (jpg) showing bacterial spot leaf symptoms on plum. (283 kb)
- Bacterial spot symptoms on European plum Photo (jpg) showing bacterial spot symptoms on European plum. (182 kb)
- Bacterial spot symptoms on Fortune Japanese plum Photo (jpg) showing bacterial spot symptoms on the Fortune Japanese plum variety. (2527 kb)
- Predicting Fruit Set 2015 Excel macro-enabled spreadsheet (.xlsm) for predicting fruit set, 2015. (354 kb)
- Trickle tube gnawed by coyotes Photo (jpg thumbnail) of irrigation trickle tubing damaged by coyotes.
- Trickle tubes gnawed by coyotes Photo (jpg thumbnail) of multiple irrigation trickle tubes damaged by coyotes.