Dario Chavez
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Good morning everyone. We are in that time of the year in which we count our chill hours/portions accumulated during the season. As a refreshment, we have multiple sources of information that can be used. Please refer to our previous post https://site.extension.uga.edu/peaches/2025/01/chill-data-sites-and-new-tools-for-dynamic-model-data/ for more detail information of what sources can be found out there to…
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I imagine that all of us are looking into our respective locations to see how much chill we are accumulating this winter season. As a brief review and for anyone that is new to this business, we have our traditional models: 1) The Weinberger Model (# hours below 45F) and 2) The Modified Weinberger Model…
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Hi everyone, I apologize for the delay with this update. I was waiting for the last bit of chill to be seen in our regions. We just got a cold front last weekend and early this week and I thought will wait until we could finally see what we got during that time. Now, our…
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Hi everyone, I received the other day the program for the IFTA meeting in Grand Rapids, MI. This meeting has several general topic speakers and several peach-specific speakers that should be of interest to growers. There will also be an orchard tour stop on Tuesday focused on peaches. The current education director is trying to…
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Hi everyone, I hope that everyone is doing well. It has been an interesting month or two for chill accumulation. I was worried last year seeing the seasonal forecast and how things were panning out. However, we were able to get some uniform chill accumulation including some additional hours even this week. Generally speaking, we…
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Obtained from Fruit Grower News – written by Tom Ford – Penn State University (permission to share this info). As a horticultural crop producer, you are approaching your busiest time of year and the COVID-19 outbreak may impact your ability to source inputs, engage workers and/or operate your business in a normal fashion. While we…
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Hi everyone, I was waiting to send this post until it seemed that we were reaching the end of our chill accumulation for this year. The weather has been very variable the last few days from warm, to wet, and to cold. The nice thing about the temperatures going down is that we have accumulated…