Web Sites
Web Sites
MSU Departments in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resourses house faculty members doing research in fruit. It is useful to look at faculty memebers websites.
Department of Horticulture is one of the leading commercial fruit programs in the country. Be sure and check its outreach page to is what programs are coming up.
Department of Entomology has lots of information on insects, both general information such as beekeeping and insect IPM information.
Department of Plant Pathology covers plant diseases.
MSU's Fruit IPM Web Site allows
searching of back issues of the Fruit Crop Alert Team (CAT) Newsletters. These often
include articles about a particular insect pest or disease. The Fruit CAT Newsletter is
available both by mail and online.
The Clarksville Horticultural
Extension Station web site contains Apple IPM information, West Central
Michigan fruit information and information on experiments at the Clarksville Station. It
is maintained by Phil Schawallier.
The Southwest Michigan Research & Extension Center,
near Benton Harbor, has a web site maintained by Bill Shane.
The Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station,
maintained by Bill Klein, is strong in cherries. This site has many articles of interest
to cherry growers.
The Trevor Nichol Research Complex located near Fenneville is dedicated to researching fruit pest and disease control.
The Van Buren County Fruit Pages
maintained by Mark Longstroth is the best fruit site in the state. This site is
especially strong in small fruits. It also has many files related to tree fruit insect
pests, and an archive of Southwestern Michigan fruit growing conditions from 1997 on.
The MSU Center for Integrated
Plant Systems has a wealth of articles dealing with pesticides and
FQPA.
The Small Fruit Entomology
website is off the CIPS site. Much of the Center's work has been funded from GREEEN.
The Michigan State Horticultural Society represents Michigan's commercial fruit growers and co-sponsors the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Marketing Exposition.
The Benton Harbor Fruit Market is a wholesale market located in Southwest Michigan. They post the current prices for wholesale fruit and vegetables sold on the market.
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.
The Michigan Blueberry Growers Marketing
markets blueberries for many Michigan blueberry growers.
The Cherry Marketing Institute has lots
of information on cherries for consumers, commercial buyers and growers.
The Michigan Peach Sponsors represents Southwest
Michigan's peach growers.
The Michigan Wine and Grape
Industry Council maintains a Michigan Wineries
website.
The Michigan Grape Society
represents Southwest Michigan's grape growers.
