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Homeowners who grow fruit in backyards or small orchards find that disease and insect pests often ruin the crop and in some instances damage the tree itself. This publication covers common diseases and insect issues in backyard orchards in North Carolina.

• Pest Control
• Pest Management
• Integrated Pest Management
• Orchard Management
• Tree Pest
• Plant Pathology
• Disease
• Orchard
• Pest
• Fruit Tree Pest
• Small Orchard
• Fruit Tree Disease
• Fruit Tree

Orchard management guide for apples, with information on insect, disease, weed, and mammal control, plus horticultural and fertility practices, use of IPM, prevention of insecticide resistance, and sprayer calibration.

• Apple
• Apple Orchard
• Orchard Management Calendar
• Orchard Management
• Apple Spray Guide
• Ipm
• Commercial Apple Production
• Fruit Tree

This publication is intended to help you manage diseases and pests of peaches. In choosing a management program, you must weigh the extent of pesticide use against the amount of risk of crop damage you are willing to accept. A rigorous spray program provides the least risk of loss, whereas a minimal spray program using less effective but possibly less hazardous pesticides involves a greater risk of loss.

• Pest Management
• Orchard Ipm
• Disease Management
• Orchard Management
• Peach
• Fruit Disease
• Nectarine

This publication will help you identify voles and vole damage and determine when, where, and how to control vole populations using environmentally sound and economical methods.

• Vole
• Orchard Management
• Nursery Crop