How to Tell Between Deficiency or Disease + Do Native Hedges Actually Work

Welcome to episode 175 of Growers Daily!

We cover: deficiencies versus diseases (or pests), public lands being sold for development, and just to shake things up, do hedgerows work?

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OAK Event in Lexington: https://ccd.uky.edu/mwcfd

Nutrient Deficiency guide: https://www.rhs.org.uk/prevention-protection/nutrient-deficiencies

Proposal to Develop More Public Lands: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/climate/senate-gop-public-land-sale.html

California native hedge study: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.03.030

Research suggests a correlation between environmental simplification and pesticide use: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1100751108

Increase in predators, decrease in native bees in apple orchards: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880923000233

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