Stinger has been labeled for weed control orchards for years, and now has a label for use in blueberries. The weeds controlled fall into two botanical plant families, composites and legumes.
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Stinger has been labeled for weed control orchards for years, and now has a label for use in blueberries. The weeds controlled fall into two botanical plant families, composites and legumes.
Casoron will control most annual broadleaf weeds and suppress or control many perennial broadleaf weeds in cranberries, including redroot. Apply Casoron 4G to cranberry bogs after the winter flood has been removed, but before the vines break winter dormancy and begin to grow.
In field evaluations, we demonstrated that yellow sticky traps baited with the blend of four aggregation pheromone components trapped significantly more cranberry weevil adults than un-baited controls.
Development of pheromone-based monitoring lures is an important step toward spatially-precise management techniques that may lead to significant reduction in the use of pesticides targeted against cranberry weevil in blueberries.
The cranberry weevil is a key pest of highbush blueberries in New Jersey and of cranberries in Massachusetts. [Read more…]
All NJ licensed pesticide applicators, as well as dealers, who store pesticides are required by law to send a copy of their storage inventories with an explanatory cover letter to the local fire company by May 1st each year. [Read more…]
The program for the control of annual weeds in the vineyard should consider the weed free strip under the trellis and the sod middles between the rows separately.
Good weed control eliminates weed competition, improves air circulation, and fungicide and insecticide spray coverage.
There was a time when a grower only needed to consider the efficacy and price when deciding what fungicide to employ for disease control. However, as companies sought to discover fungicides that were more effective and less toxic to the environment and non-target organisms, the fungicides also became more site-specific. As a result, these newer fungicides were much more prone to resistance development by the pathogen. So, now growers must also consider resistance management along with efficacy and price when deciding what fungicide to apply.
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