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Virginia Tree Fruit & Specialty Crop Disease Significance Survey - We Need Your Input!

We kindly invite you to fill out a short survey linked below which is designed to target commercial growers of tree fruit and specialty crops in Virginia. Our goal is to learn form you by asking you to provide us with your opinion and feedback on the economic significance and thus research importance of tree fruit/specialty crop diseases in your individual operation(s). The survey has been compiled by Dr. Srdjan Acimovic and is intended to help direct and guide the tree fruit and specialty crop pathology research and extension program at the Virginia Tech's Alson H. Smith Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Winchester VA. This survey is anonymous and no personal or specific farm data will be collected. Please send this blog's link or the direct link to the survey below to any of your neighbor growers as your and their opinion matters.

Please access the short survey by clicking on the following link: Virginia Tree Fruit & Specialty Crop Disease Significance Survey

Thank you and we greatly appreciate your time and effort in helping us serve you better every day!

P.S. If you witness a problem with survey contact me directly at acimovic@vt.edu 

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