Citrus trees often bear more fruit than they can support. Forgetting to thin the fruit in time can compromise the tree's ...

Excessive fruit set can lead to smaller, lower-quality apples and can negatively impact the tree's health and future production. Recent research has focused on various thinning methods ...

AGRICULTURAL AND FARM NEWS By Nathan Winter Extension Educator – Agricultural Productions Systems McLeod/Meeker County The spring time weather will soon be heading our way. Prune apple ...

AGRICULTURAL AND FARM NEWS Prune apple trees, including flowering crabapples, mountain ash, hawthorns and shrub cotoneasters in late winter from February to early April. Spring or summer pruning ...

Prior to thinning, the Cragin watershed generally held 200 to 600 trees per acre, Barton said, though some acres exceeded 1,000 trees. The Forest Service prescribed thinning to 50 to 100 trees per ...

Closely inspect the tree and prune out any of the above, removing them completely back with your pruning shears to where they meet a main branch or the trunk. The next step is to thin the canopy ...

Salt River Project, with aid from corporate, government and nonprofit partners, is thinning Arizona forests to prevent wildfires and save water.