The peach tree outside my office has been showing signs of a disease that runs rampant on stone fruit trees, brown rot. This disease is fungal in nature and can kill all the peaches on the tree in ...

If ripening cherries and apricots have been rotting or were covered with a mass of tan powdery spores, this is a fruit disease called brown rot. Spring rains, hail, high winds and more provide ...

Q. Every year my peaches are ruined by brown rot disease. I spray Captan when I first begin to see signs of the problem but it doesn’t seem to help. Should I just give up on peaches? A. Don’t give up.

Aug. 9—TRAVERSE CITY — Challenges faced by area sweet cherry growers during a difficult growing season that created a 75-percent crop loss in some areas grabbed the attention of Michigan's top ...