Quinstar 4L has a section 3 label for use in cranberries, and is useful for the control of dodder, yellow loosestrife and many other weeds in cranberries in New Jersey.
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Fruit Crops Edition - Cranberry Section
Seasonal updates on diseases, insects, weeds impacting small fruit (blueberry, cranberry, and wine grape). Fruit Pest Alerts are also available via this category feed.
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May 7, 2014 Brad Majek
Quinstar 4L for Weed Control in Cranberries
April 28, 2014 Anne Nielsen
BMSB Survey
“Are you a grower? Got stink bugs? We need your help! We’re surveying growers to assess the impact of BMSB on crops and gathering information that will help us defeat this pest.
Receive a free Guide to Stink Bugs* if you complete the 10-minute BMSB survey”
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Thanks in advance! – From the Northeast IPM Center
The BMSB Working Group, through NE IPM Center and Cornell University, is collecting information from farmers on BMSB impact and management. If you have time, please fill out this short survey. It will help to gather information that we can use to identify what’s working and what we still need to do.
April 22, 2014 Brad Majek
Casoron 4G Weed Control in Established Bearing Cranberry Bogs
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.
Casoron controls or suppresses many
“hard to control” weeds, including redroot.
April 21, 2014 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Cranberry Weevil Research
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.
Evaluation of Different Color Cranberry Weevil Traps
The cranberry weevil is a key pest of highbush blueberries in New Jersey and of cranberries in Massachusetts. [Read more…]
April 14, 2014 Zane Helsel
Pesticide Storage Inventory Due May 1
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…]
August 2, 2013 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
ACGA Preview: Research in Cranberry Entomology
Join us August 15 for the ACGA Summer Field Day to visit research bogs and discuss results.
Insecticide Trials against Sparganothis Fruitworm and Spotted Fireworm
We are currently conducting experiments to compare the efficacy of various insecticides (Delegate, Altacor, Intrepid, Lorsban, Imidan, and 2 unregistered insecticides) against Sparganothis fruitworm and spotted fireworm larvae in cranberries. [Read more…]
