Click to View | Download Report 5-18-18 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...May 16, 2018 Joe Ingerson-Mahar
IPM Update 5/16/18
Sweet Corn IPM Program personnel are currently finishing deployment of the black light trap network in New Jersey. At present, we are approximately 70% operational and have begun to monitor traps. To date, no corn earworm (CEW) have been captured. The low numbers of European corn borer (ECB) moths that have been caught do not […]
Continue reading...May 16, 2018 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Cranberry Early Season Insect Pests
The following insect pests bear special mention for early-season scouting in cranberry bogs: Blackheaded fireworm – Blackheaded fireworm eggs overwinter on the bed and usually hatch by around mid-May (at this time of the year). It is important to catch the first generation, if possible, because the second generation occurs during bloom and is typically […]
Continue reading...May 14, 2018 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 5-15-18
Click to View | Download Report 5-15-18 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...May 10, 2018 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 5-11-18
Click to View | Download Report 5-11-18 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...May 10, 2018 Norman Lalancette
Do’s and Don’ts for Using Copper to Control Peach Bacterial Spot
The 2018 peach bloom period in New Jersey, about 10 days late this season, is now coming to a close. Shucks are splitting and detaching, exposing the newly formed fruit to the outside world for the first time. And the bacterial spot pathogen, Xanthomonas arboricola pv pruni, has been patiently waiting in the overwintering spring […]
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