Click to View | Download Report 8-13-18 Potato Disease Forecasting Report We will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. The first late blight fungicide application is recommended once 18 DSVs accumulate from green row. Green row typically occurs around the first week in May […]
Continue reading...August 12, 2018 Jim Murphy
Dog Days and Cool-Season Grass
According to Merriam-Webster, dog days is the period between early July and early September when the hot sultry weather of summer usually occurs in the northern hemisphere; a period of stagnation or inactivity. The dog is actually the Dog Star &… Read More »
Continue reading...August 11, 2018 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for 8/12/18
It’s Here! Spotted lanternfly was found on Friday August 10 on a commercial Hunterdon County fruit and vegetable farm. The insect was found in a Tree of Heaven being used as a trap tree with a plastic catch basin placed around the base of the tree, and the first 5-6 feet of the trunk sprayed […]
Continue reading...August 10, 2018 Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Corn Earworm Control in Sweet Corn
In the past, pyrethroid insecticides did very well against corn earworm. But in recent years we have seen the decline in the effectiveness of pyrethroids due to the development of resistance in the earworm population. Farmers who rely heavily on these insecticides run the risk of crop loss. Pyrethroids (IRAC group 3A) can still be used but […]
Continue reading...August 9, 2018 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 8-10-18
Click to View | Download Report 8-10-18 Potato Disease Forecasting Report We will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. The first late blight fungicide application is recommended once 18 DSVs accumulate from green row. Green row typically occurs around the first week in May […]
Continue reading...August 8, 2018 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
IPM Update 08/08/18
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) moth catches in black light traps remain very low. The second flight is proving to be very erratic, with some locations getting low numbers of moths while other regional traps catch none. There will be no map in this edition. Second generation feeding is often obscured by fall armyworm (FAW) feeding. […]
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