After years of debate, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on August 18, 2021 that this year will be the last that the insecticide chlorpyrifos (the active ingredient in Lorsban) will be allowed for use on food crops, including cranberries. This means that use of chlorpyrifos will no longer be allowed on cranberries in 2022 […]
Continue reading...September 6, 2021 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Cranberry Update: EPA Bans Use of Chlorpyrifos (Lorsban) On Food Crops
September 3, 2021 Melissa Bravo
Concerned about flooded pastures or forage contamination?
If producers have concerns about flooded pastures and forage quality; or concerns about heavy metal contamination in flood contaminated water and soils that can lead to livestock toxicities, here is an article for Progressive Forage I wrote on this topic this spring that may be useful. See the article, Adverse Weather Impacts Essential Nutrient Uptake. […]
Continue reading...September 3, 2021 Andy Wyenandt
Disease management recommendation for fall planted strawberry plugs
Kathy Demchak, Senior Extension Associate, from Penn State University and Dr. Mengjun Hu, Small Fruit Pathologist, from the University of Maryland have published an excellent article on disease management recommendations for fall planted strawberry plugs. Please click here for more information.
Continue reading...September 3, 2021 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Update – 9/03/21
Phytophthora blight is being reported in pepper and cucurbit crops. For more information on Phytophthora blight control please click here. Pepper anthracnose is being reported in southern New Jersey. For more information on pepper anthracnose please click here. Cucurbit downy mildew has been reported on cucumber (6/16/21), cantaloupe (6/22/21) and pumpkin (8/27/21) in southern New […]
Continue reading...September 2, 2021 Kate Brown
National Farm Safety and Health Week: September 19-25, 2021
September precedes one of the busiest and most dangerous seasons of the year in agriculture – fall harvest time. For this reason, National Farm Safety and Health Week (NFSHW) is recognized annually during the third week of September. The theme this year is “Farm Safety Yields Real Results”. AgriSafe will host two FREE webinars each […]
Continue reading...September 2, 2021 Hemant Gohil
Grower and Winemaker Town Hall: Questions from the Field and Cellar
Eastern Viticulture and Enology Forum has planned a virtual meeting on September 7th @ 3:00 PM ET. Here, regional viticulture and enology specialists will present a Grower and Winemaker Town Hall virtual meeting series to give seasonal updates and answer pre-submitted and live questions from grape and wine industry stakeholders. The structure of these meetings […]
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