The number of you using biologicals is about the same year-over-year, holding steady at about 50%. But those of you using biologicals sharply increased doing so.
While pome fruit growers may use conventional products such as antibiotics to treat trees in the orchard, new resistant strains have generated interest in alternative methods.
Best management practices beyond the farm just might help Florida get a handle on the big challenge of quality and supply of its most precious resource.