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Seasonal updates on diseases, insects, weeds impacting tree fruit and small fruit (blueberry, cranberry, and wine grape). Fruit Pest Alerts are also available via this category feed.
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Tree Fruit IPM Report: week ending 4/6/2013
Commercial Grower Blueberry Meetings
From The Blueberry Bulletin April 3, 2013
Upcoming Twilight Meetings
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Variety Farms
548 Pleasant Mills Rd. Hammonton, NJ 08037
Thursday, May 30, 2013 @ 5:30
Atlantic Blueberry Co.
7201 Weymouth Rd., Hammonton, NJ
For Directions, Call 609-561-8600
Blueberry IPM
Plum Curculio: One adult was seen in a beating tray sample, indicating that adults became active during the warm temperatures we experienced last week. To see adults present before bloom as unusual. Adults were also captured in experimental attractant pyramid traps.
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Gloucester County Fruit Twilight Meeting
Tree fruit and wine grape commercial growers are invited to discuss insect, disease, and weed control with RCE NJAES Specialists and the Fruit IPM team.
Date: 7 pm, Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Location: Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County
County Government Services Building
1200 N. Delsea Dr.
Clayton, NJ 08312-1095
Phone: 856-307-6450
Annual Weed Control for Established Blueberries
The program for the control of annual weeds in blueberries should consider the weed free strip under the row and the middles, sod or tilled, separately. The “Weed Control Season” in blueberries starts in late fall. The program implemented in the spring depends on what herbicides were applied the previous fall. If herbicides were applied in late fall, applications may be able to be delayed until later in the spring. Residual herbicides should be applied before bud break in late winter or early spring after the soil is no longer frozen if no late fall treatment was applied. [Read more…]
Annual Weed Control in Vineyards
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. The “Weed Control Season” starts in late fall, after harvest. The program implemented in the spring depends on what herbicides were applied the previous fall. If herbicides were applied in late fall, applications can be delayed until later in the spring. Residual herbicides should be applied in late winter or early spring after the soil is no longer frozen, if no late fall treatment was applied. [Read more…]
Annual Weed Control in Orchards
The program for the control of annual weeds in the orchard should consider the weed free strip under the tree and the sod middles between the tree rows separately. The “Weed Control Season” in orchards starts in late fall, after harvest. The program implemented in the spring depends on what herbicides were applied the previous fall. If herbicides were applied in late fall, applications can be delayed until later in the spring. Residual herbicides should be applied in late winter or early spring after the soil is no longer frozen, if no late fall treatment was applied. [Read more…]