Tree Fruit IPM Publications
- Online New England Tree Fruit Management Guide (New England Tree Fruit Management Guide website)
- Orchard Fruit Pest Management, Private Pesticide Applicator Training Manual (PDF)
- Best Management Practices Checklist for Tree Fruit Production: Massachusetts Tree-fruit Production BMP Handbook (PDF) (UMass Amherst The Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment website)
Apple Pest Management for Small Hobby Plantings
- Home Apple Orchard Pest Management, UMaine Extension
- Home Apple Pest Management Calendar, UMaine Extension
- Home Fruit Spray Schedule [fact sheet] Pest biology and timing are valid but check for updated pesticide info. (NH Extension website)
- Bulletin #2411, Planting and Early Care of Fruit Trees, UMaine Extension
- Growing Fruit Trees in Maine, 2nd Edition, UMaine Extension Publications Catalog
Organic Orchard Management
- AATRA orchard management guide
- MOFGA Organic Certification Services (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners)
- OMRI list (Organic Materials Research Institute)
- Washington State Dept. Ag. resources for organic producers (WA and CA approved organic materials lists, scroll down for factsheets)
Other Northeastern Tree Fruit IPM Newsletters
- Healthy Fruit – UMass tree fruit newsletter
- Fruit page (PennState Extension website)
Pest Fact Sheets
Insect and Disease Pests
- Maine Apple Pest Threshold and ID Card ( PDF | Word )
- Cornell Tree Fruit Insect and Disease Pest Fact Sheets
- Apple Insect Pest Fact Sheets: Pest Insect and Disease Biology and Monitoring (Virginia Tech University)
- Apple Insect and Mite PestsFact Sheets (Michigan State University, loads slowly)
- Apple Disease Fact Sheets (Michigan State University, MSU Extension, Apples website)
- NY State IPM publications (slow loading)
Apple publications (slow loading)
Cornell Stone fruit (Peach, Plum, Apricot) publications (slow loading)
Disease-Only
- Market Diseases of Apples, Pears, and Quinces, out of print 1971 USDA handbook (Washington State University website)
Other Pest Management Topics
- Tree Fruit Pesticides
- Assessing Deer Damage in a Commercial Orchard
- Elements of IPM for Apples in New York State (Cornell University/eCommons, slow loading)
Other State Tree Fruit IPM sites and Pest Management Publications
- UMass Extension Fruit Program
- University of Vermont Tree Fruit resources
- New York Fruit Quarterly In-depth articles on tree fruit and small fruit research projects conducted by Cornell University staff (New York State Horticultural Society website)
- Fruit Notes Research/Extension journal from the University of Massachusetts (UMass Amherst The Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment website)
- Massachusetts March Message: Update on apple IPM developments as of March 2004
- Fruit Grower News website Online excerpts from fruit industry newspaper
- Good Fruit Grower website Back issues of fruit production journal from Washington state
Horticultural Fact Sheets
- Bulletin #2409, Renovating Old Apple Trees, UMaine Extension
- Nutrient Recommendations for Apples (UMass)
- Thinning Apples Chemically, (UMass)
- Foliar Calcium Sprays for Apples (PDF) (UMass)
- Bulletin #4191, Food Safety Facts: Safe Home Made Cider, UMaine Extension