Click to View | Download Report 7-18-17 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...July 17, 2017 Kris Holmstrom
Cucurbit Downy Mildew ALERT – 7/17/17
Cucurbit downy mildew was confirmed on cucumber in northern New Jersey (Hunterdon County) today in the cucurbit downy mildew sentinel plot at the Snyder Research and Extension Farm in Pittstown. This is the fourth report of CDM on cucumber in New Jersey this growing season. No other cucurbit crops were affected. All cucumber growers in NJ are […]
Continue reading...July 13, 2017 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 7-14-17
Click to View | Download Report 7-14-17 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...July 13, 2017 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for 7/13/17
Peach: Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): The 3rd OFM flight is well underway in all counties. These adults produce 3rd brood of larvae, which primarily infest the fruit.
Continue reading...July 12, 2017 Anne Nielsen
BMSB is Under Attack!
Many of our fruit and vegetable growers throughout the state have been battling with populations of brown marmorated stink bug. This invasive pest feeds on most fruiting vegetables, small fruits, and tree fruits and can cause significant economic losses. One of the reasons that BMSB is such a bad pest is that when it arrived […]
Continue reading...July 12, 2017 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/12/17
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) catches remain very low, and no map will appear in this edition. Feeding in NJ sweet corn plantings is also low, with remaining larval infestations only on pre-tassel stage corn in the northern counties. Check 5 plants each in 10 random locations for a 50 plant sample. Look for “shot-hole” […]
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