Click to View | Download Report 8-30-16 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 26, 2016 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 8-26-16
Click to View | Download Report 8-26-16 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 25, 2016 Michael Westendorf
Livestock Auction Updates
Below are the latest livestock auction updates from the Hackettstown Livestock Auction. The Livestock Auction has a sale every Tuesday. This auction sells lambs, sheep, goats, calves, beef cattle, pigs, rabbits, and all types of heavy fowl. The auction begins at 10:30 am and ends with the last sale at 5:30 pm. This auction serves […]
Continue reading...August 25, 2016 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Briefs – 8/25/16
Cucurbit downy mildew has been confirmed on cucumber in New Jersey. To date, cucurbit downy mildew has been reported on cucumber and melon in the mid-Atlantic region. All cucumber growers need to add a downy mildew-specific fungicide to their weekly fungicide programs. All cucurbit growers need to scout on a regular basis. Dickeya dianthicola has […]
Continue reading...August 25, 2016 Michael Westendorf
Spontaneous Combustion
When environmental temperatures reach the highs they have for much of this summer, there are risks of spontaneous combustion of hay supplies, and of manure piles, especially when moisture levels are elevated. Recently, a horse manure pile on a farm in New York State burst into flames resulting in smoke and odors impacting nearby neighbors. […]
Continue reading...August 24, 2016 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 8/24/16
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) adult activity has declined to nearly nothing at this time, and no map image is in this edition. The second flight was extremely low, with fall armyworm injury much more dominant this year. It is possible that we will have a partial third flight, but as the second was so […]
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