date:Feb 05, 2013
dvice they can use on their farms starting this spring.
A new disease started showing up in Saskatchewan sour cherry crops in the fall of 2011 after two years of above normal moisture. Growers reported dead blossoms and large crop losses.
Scharf investigated and identified the culprit as American brown rot, also known as brown blossom rot.
It was considered to be new here, but so is the (sour cherry) crop and largely so are the conditions, Scharf said.
It was initially thought to be