JD I read not too long ago that a big part of the problem is that the insects lay their eggs in the fruit which causes the fruit to fall early. Then the eggs hatch and the larva stay In the soil until they become insects and the whole process starts over again. I guess there is 2 ways of dealing with that. One is to spray and the other is to keep pigs around the fruit trees. The pigs eat the fruit as it falls so no more eggs to hatch. Eventually the pigs break the cycle. Guess some guy out in NY state decided to try that on his commercial organic apple farm. Got a government grant to fence and put pigs in on 5 or so acres. When it worked he bragged to his grand father who told him "well boy now you know why I always had pigs in the orchard. All you had to do was ask".
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Today's Featured Article - Recollections of a John Deere GP - by Charlie Cook. I grew up on my dad's 280 acre general farm in Western Michigan. Dad's only tractor when I was very young was the old GP. My first recollection of this tractor was when dad allowed my brother and myself to ride on the tractor with him driving. One of us would sit on the left fender (away from the clutch) and other would sit on the gas tank and hold onto the crankcase breather pipe.
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