I mean-Are you doing any research projects on band canker?

Yeah, so, um, I'll, I'll start with some of the prior research that was done by Themis Mitsialidis and then, um, Joe Connell, who is a farm advisor emeritus out of Butte County.

And quite a few years ago, they looked at the relationship between water hitting the trunks and disease development.

And so what they were able to demonstrate pretty conclusively was that when stream splitters were installed on sprinkler systems and water was prevented from hitting the trunks, that both the severity and the disease incidence decreased when that water was, was removed from essentially the equation.

And so certainly something growers can do right off the bat is ensure that water is not hitting the trunks of their trees.

Um, and this helps prevent the environment required for infection by Botryosphaeria ca.

Have you been looking at all at fungicides for band canker?

Yeah.