2016 Fire Blight Management Workshop
Anna Wallis, Tree Fruit and Grape Specialist
Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture
August 3, 2016
This is the powerpoint presentation from the August 2nd Fire Blight Workshop in Peru.
In light of the high fire blight incidence this season, Srdjan Acimovic, pathologist at the Hudson Valley Research Lab, and Dave Rosenberger, retired pathologist Hudson Valley Research Lab, offered a workshop on fire blight management. They presented information on fire blight management, conditions that led to this season's situation, and how to predict fire blight infections in the future.
Fire Blight Presentation_Acimovic_2016 (pdf; 6097KB)

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