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A Rare Tme for the Stars to Align: Sharpnosed leafhopper adults are flying, and scale crawlers are emerging. [Read more…]
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August 3, 2019 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for August 4, 2019
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth: Treatments for the 3rd generation OFM are timed for now in northern counties. [Read more…]
July 25, 2019 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for July 26, 2019
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth: Treatments for the 3rd generation OFM are timed for now in northern counties. Treatments are done in southern counties. [Read more…]
July 17, 2019 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for 7/17/19
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth: Treatments for the 3rd generation OFM are timed for now and over the next week, depending on which county you are in. [Read more…]
July 10, 2019 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for 7/10/19
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth: During the previous week we were between the 2nd and 3rd OFM flights on most farms, and just starting the third flight this week. Populations on most farms are low, but the timing in southern counties is now if trap captures exceed 6 moths per trap. See timings in the table below: [Read more…]
July 8, 2019 Norman Lalancette
Improving Your Late Season Peach Brown Rot Control Program
From early July through the first half of September, our attention turns to peach harvests. And for disease control, a great deal of focus is on preventing brown rot development in the ripening fruit. Failure to effectively manage brown rot during the first half of the harvest season can set you up for significant yield loss in the second half of the season, especially if rains become frequent. Infected, sporulating fruit from early maturing cultivars provides fuel (inoculum) for infection of the mid- and late-maturing cultivars. Remember, the harvest season is one big epidemic for brown rot.
This article is a continuation of my earlier article titled “Improving your early season peach brown rot control program” (plant-pest-advisorty.rutgers.edu, April 17, 2019). This former publication discussed blossom blight control as well as quiescent / latent infections occurring in young, green fruit. If you haven’t read this article, or forgot much of it, now is a good time to read or review it. I assume you followed the advice of the former article and therefore do not have significant latent infection lurking in your fruit!
