"Is there a better way to do this?"

Alright, so a few years ago we pretty much had a fundamental shift in the way we manage this farm, and we started planting cover crops down the alleys, focusing on soil biology, and began looking at the orchard more as an ecosystem instead of just like a factory out here, you know. And for years, like most growers, we relied heavily on synthetic fungicides, especially during times like this when disease pressure is high. And they can be effective tools, but we started wondering like, man, is there a better way to do this? One that focuses a lot less on intervention and a lot more on like resilient, tough trees, because what we were doing honestly is a losing battle in the long run. So today we're investing a lot more on nutrition, biology, plant energy directly into these trees with the goal to help these trees function at such a high rate that they're naturally more resilient to the stress and the disease pressure when it does show up. So that's one of the reasons why we've been working with Advancing EcoAg, because their approach definitely aligns with what we're trying to do out here. What attracted me to them wasn't some claim of having a cure-all product because they don't claim that, but it was their focus on quality nutrition and measurable outcomes through sap analysis. So we wanted products that fit into that larger goal and that focuses a lot less on what we're trying to kill out here and focus a lot more on what we're trying to grow.