General Management of Fruit and Nut Trees
(links and PDF files)

Care of Trees
General tree care, including planting, pruning, and nutrition of fruit and nut trees.

How-to Guides
How-to guides includes the formation of Pest Control Districts, calculation of 'chill portions' using a hand-held data logger, use of the Pressure Chamber (a.k.a. 'Bomb') to measure leaf water potential, and the measurement of fruit harvest readiness using a pull force gauge.

Irrigation & Frost Protection
Water management guidelines and assistance, including irrigation topics, the "Reducing Runoff from Irrigated Land" series of publications, and frost protection.

General Pests
Information about pests with multiple fruit and nut hosts.

Pesticide Timing & Non-Pesticide Practices
Use of horticultural oils and pheromone disruption in pest management, timing of pesticides and biological treatments, and cover crops in orchards. 

Soils
Information about agricultural soil erosion, and soil solarization for weed control

Economic Management
Cost and return studies, tree and vine loss calculator; "Reducing Market Risk for Specialty Crops" 2007 workshop presentations and articles

Pollination
Links to research facilities and to websites providing information and classes about bees and beekeeping