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6 Tree Fruits, Walnuts, and Vegetables in California: The Ferrari Farm
6 Tree Fruits, Walnuts, and Vegetables in California: The Ferrari Farm
Pages 324-335
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the use of nonpesticide insect control in fruit production on a commercial scale and, specifically, the use of experimental biological controls, a pheromone and coaling moth granulosis virus; (2) the successful use of an IPM scouting and advisory service; (3)
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; a packing house (with a 40-by 100-foot new addition plus an older facility) containing various kinds of sorting and packaging machines and processing facilities for shelling nuts and drying fruits; a 40-by 60-foot roof shed; a 30-by 60-foot walnut cracking shed; · a 36-by 80-foot storage building; a lean-to building for tractors and other equipment; and an office in Wayne Ferrari's home.
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is used successfully on 5 control practices acres of apples with 2 to 3 percent worm damage on Red Delicious, 1 percent on Granny Smith apples. It has not yet been effective against coaling moths in walnuts.
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; a nut harvester (tree-shaker) ; a bulk trailer with a nut drier; a compost spreader truck; a pull-type compost spreader; a row-crop sprayer; a speed sprayer; a nut huller; various packing house equipment; a biomass burner that generates up to 500,000 BTUs of heat for the packing shed using walnut shells as fuel following a 90-second warmup with propane; and miscellaneous other machinery and equipment.
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to control weeds, most notably lohnsongrass. In their alternative orchards, weed control methods include flail chopping and dishing between the rows of trees and hand hoeing of weeds growing close to the trees.
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On their alternative acreage the Ferraris use a number of biological controls and organically acceptable pesticides, as wed as other methods of insect and mite control.* Occasionally, beneficial predators are released on the advice of the pest control adviser.
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The results of this field experiment suggest that CMGV provides approximately the same protection against coaling moth at about the same cost for materials, but that it also requires more frequent applications. Another element of the Ferrari pest control program on the farm's alternative acreage is the periodic release of predacious mites.
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Wayne Ferrari provides the bulk of the management of the orchards, including irrigation scheduling, pest control, fertility management, and planting and harvesting scheduling. Wayne and George Ferrari jointly select the cultivars of crops to be planted, deal with buyers, and make other
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PERFORMANCE INDICATORS Yield Data Because of the large number of crops grown and the diversity of cultivars of each crop, it is not practical for the Ferraris to maintain accurate production and yield data on the various orchards and segments within orchards or in the vegetable plots. Consequently, no specific yield data are available.
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Over the years, Wayne Ferrari reports that he has made decisions to plant additional varieties of fruits and vegetables in response to questions and requests from his customers in the San Francisco market; he has also based such decisions on evidence in the wholesale markets suggesting expectations of profitable enterprises in years to come. His management strategy is extremely diversified in every aspect: the number of crops he produces, the farm's marketing outlets, sources of compost, fertility management methods, and pest management strategies.
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1988. Control of oriental fruit moth by mating disruption in California peach and nectarine orchards.
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