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2009 Maine Apple Policy Word PDF
Risk Management Agency of USDA
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In 2004, Maine produced more than 1.2 million bushels of apples to become the top apple-producing state in New England that year as well as for the previous 2 years. Utilized production totaled 1,143,000 bushels for a value of 16.44 million dollars in 2004. Apples are unfortunately attractive to a large host of organisms besides humans: Insects, fungi, tiny arachnids called mites, deer and birds are the most common. Deer we attempt to keep separated by means of fences. Bird damage most years is an annoyance but not a major financial calamity. During the 1995 growing season red squirrels caused significant crop damage in many orchards, but this is not usual. Control over the remaining pests: fungi, insects, and mites is attempted by a combination of horticultural practices, biological controls, naturally occurring predators, and when necessary chemical pesticides targeted to specific problems. This approach to control of pests is called integrated pest management. The University of Maine Apple Integrated Pest Management site provides current situation reports, pest biology, pesticide updates, and other information to help apple growers minimize risk from pest damage and pesticide use. Some risks however, cannot be anticipated or controlled. Adverse weather perils such as hail, wind, frost, drought, etc., failure of irrigation water supply, plant disease and fire are possibilities that can devastate an orchard. Apples are insurable in the following Maine counties for these and other production risks: Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Oxford, Penobscot, Somerset, Waldo, York. Additional protection is available for loss of quality (as a result of natural perils) to apples grown for fresh fruit that do not grade U.S. Fancy or better To view the 2009 Maine Commodity Insurance Fact Sheet, click on the link in the blue box at left. To view the NASS New England Fruits and Vegetables 2007 Crop Report, click here.
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Statistics courtesy of New England Agricultural Review A field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Gary Keough, Director. http://www.nass.usda.gov/nh/,
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