Fruit Related Web sites

Michigan Fruit Links to Other Fruit Related Sites

Michigan Marketing Sites

The Michigan Apple Committee. maintains a web site with links to Michigan apple shippers, listings of Cider Mills, farms with road side sales, and all kinds of information on apples. Check It Out!

MBG Marketing markets blueberries for Michigan Blueberry Growers and growers in many other states.

CMI, The Cherry Marketing Institute has lots of information on cherries for consumers, commercial buyers and growers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's farmer direct marketing web page. The web page provides a wide variety of resources and information on this growing agricultural sector.

Other State's Fruit IPM Web Sites

West Virginia University's Kearneysville Fruit Experiment Station is an excellent site with lots of information and pictures. This site is always improving!

The New York Experiment Station has lots of information. Cornell's Fruit Website includes Scaffolds Newsletter is a source of information for Great Lakes region apple growers. Cornell's Fruit Insect Fact Sheets from New York are excellent sources of basic information on many important fruit pests and benefical insects.

Ontario's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has a great deal of the bulletins on the web in English and French. They also have some nice links.

Virginia Tech's Fruit Home Page, has lots good information from the Central Atlantic growing region. It contains lot of information for commercial growers and a good spray guide for back yard growers which works well in Michigan.

Washington State's Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research Center is good as is the USDA/ARS Tree Fruit Research Lab, and WSU's Chelan and Yakima counties extension offices.

PennState's Department of Horticulture publishes Fruit Times and has posted the Pennsylvania Tree Fruit Production Guide which is excellent. They also have a Small Scale Fruit Production Guide which is geared more for the home owner and hobbyist.

Oregon State University maintains the Northwest Berry & Grape Infonet it is the best source of information for all small fruit.

Purdue's Facts For Fancy Fruit is a short letter for Indiana fruit growers.

Rutgers' Plant & Pest Advisory Newsletter is posted at the Virtual Orchard.

The University of Vermont's, UVM Apple Orchard has good information and a list of scab resistant apple cultivars.

Ohio State's Midwest Small Fruit web site is also dedicated to small fruit and has many of Ohio's pest control recommendations online.

The University of Illinios posts their Fruit and Vegetable News.

University of Maine Apple IPM Site

The University of Massachusetts has both a Tree Fruit Team and a Small Fruits Team.

Other Good Fruit Sites

The Virtual Orchard - is an excellent site. Many eastern fruit sites are linked off this server. Check it out and subscribe today!

The International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association or IDFTA is an organization dedicated to the understanding and use of dwarf fruit trees.

The Good Fruit Grower Magazine out of Yakima maintains an excellent page.

North American Fruit Explorers is a group dedicated to maintaining rare and unusual fruit varieties.

National Clonal Germplasm Repository. USDA/ARS Corvallis, Oregon.

The USDA Fruit Laboratory in Beltville Maryland.