Apples

Information on hard cider and ice wine production.

What Is Cyclosporiasis?

Maggots in Cole Crops and Alliums

Ten Years of Managing Grower-Friendly Apple Trees Created at the Maryland Research and Education Center in Keedysville, Maryland.

Keep your fruit safe—and your customers protected. Learn how Listeria, a persistent and potentially deadly bacterium, can spread in fruit packinghouses and what practical steps you can take to stop it. This article breaks down easy, science-backed strategies to reduce contamination, improve sanitation, and protect public health in your operation.

Common Fruit Herbicides*

Multi-fruit orchard spray program for the control of major tree fruit pests and diseases.

Selected resources for commercial apple production

This spring's weather was unkind to Maryland fruit growers. Whether you believe in climate change or not, you know that an early bloom, an advective April freeze, and one of the wettest months of May on record has hurt fruit production.

What is lenticel breakdown in Apple Fruits and what causes it? Physiological disorders in apples are abnormalities that occur in the tissue during the pre-harvest and post-harvest periods, not caused by pests or pathogens. These physiological abnormalities drastically lower growth profitability because they make the fruit unmarketable.