For more than sixty years, four generations of our family have worked together to produce "farm fresh produce" at Cherry Hill Farm in the valleys of central Utah. The fruits we harvest include cherries, apples and peaches. Our family has been able to continue farming although the success of family farms has continued to decline over the past century.
One of the main reasons our farm has been successful is my grandfather and father's insight into where we are now planted. Location is one of the real tricks of fruit growing. Being in a location that helps us grow high quality fruit enables us to provide a great service in our local market. Many consumers don't consider where the fruit comes from, just that it meets their quality standards. Also, if you don't have the right location, there's just no point in growing fruit that costs more than it does.
HOBO®Pro Temperature Data Logger U23-001, U23-002, U23-003, U23-004 A tool from Onset that helps us identify good growing spots. We have these battery powered devices attached to the fruit trees, and they sit and record the air temperature U23-001, U23-002, U23-003, U23-004 at various points throughout the orchard. After a while, I took my laptop from each field and unloaded the data loggers. Then I can look at the temperature data and know, for example, where in the orchard is the coldest. On this basis, we might decide not to plant any peaches or spots of sweet cherries, and instead choose to plant apples or sour cherries. Knowing the good growing location for each specific type of fruit is very important to our operation.
We also use data loggers located elsewhere. We are always looking down the road and these data loggers can help collect data for many days in a row without us having to visit a website. We are going to go out and put HOBO U23-001, U23-002, U23-003, U23-004 in remote areas for a few hours in the first November and the first back in June to see the temperature data. Usually we try to do a five-year study of each location, so we have a good average of when what happened during a major frost was likely to happen, when the last frost hit the area. We then compare this data with other data collected at our existing farm study sites to understand risk.
Finally, the data loggers U23-001, U23-002, U23-003, U23-004 help us know when certain pests will be present in our orchards. By accumulating degree days and average daily temperatures in spring, we can usually predict when pests will emerge using scientific models. Three fire blight pests, codling moth, on peach branches. Fire blight has become the biggest concern for growing apples. We use the average daily average to know when there is a possibility of infection. Codling moth and peach tree branches are two pests in apples and peaches respectively. We can expect them to start appearing when we calculate time using the degree model. In turn, this helps us know when to spray and eliminate them in the orchard.
The main advantage for us is the convenience of being able to leave for a long time. Before we use the data, we need to put high-low mercury thermometers on our research site, and drive out six or seven hours once a week to check. Now we only have to visit these sites a few times a year. We also like U23-001, U23-002, U23-003, U23-004, well preserved, although they keep hitting in the weather. The wind blows them and keeps turning.
