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I've heard of a similar statistic here. That water use and pesticide use for urban or agricultural was about the same per acre. Here a farmer can't purchase any pesticides unless he has a use permit on file and he can't apply any pesticides himself unless he has obtained his private...

That all sounds like work.

What do they do about weeds Paul?

When I grew apples I would keep a protective layer of pesticide on the apple at all times once the weather was warm enough for the moths to start flying. The pesticide (usually lorsban but sometimes guthion) was supposed to last 28 days so we just sprayed every 25 days. If you had one little...

Here every apple would have a worm if you didn't spray.

I did a couple of orchards this winter. If I wasn't so slow here I wouldn't have worked on them myself. It's repetative as all get out, you find yourself looking at your watch hoping it's lunchtime or quitting time or whatever time it needs to be for you to be gone from there. Mostly lopper...

Some apple varieties tend to alternate bear also. The structural wood tends to grow straight up also and this can be taken care of when the tree is being trained but with a mature tree like you have, what you got is what you got, as they say. LIke OM says bring the height down to an acceptable...

Wood that is pencil size and smaller is the fruiting wood.