Click to View | Download Report 7-19-16 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...July 15, 2016 Andy Wyenandt
Dickeya dianthicola: Looking for feedback from potato growers
An article by Rosemary Gordon in Growing Produce, the online version of American Vegetable Grower, outlines the problems caused by Dickeya dianthicola that some potato growers in the Eastern U.S. are facing this summer. The article is looking for feedback from those potato growers affected by Dickeya either this summer or last as University researchers from across the […]
Continue reading...July 15, 2016 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 7-15-16
Click to View | Download Report 7-15-16 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...July 13, 2016 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/13/16
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) moth catches are very low, but showing signs of increase on the Cape May/Cumberland Co. border (se ECB map) . Most larval infestations, have passed. Be sure to begin monitoring plantings for ECB feeding while they are still in the whorl stage. Consider treating when the number of infested plants in a 50 plant […]
Continue reading...July 13, 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...July 13, 2016 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for 7-12-2016
Fruit IPM for 7/12/16 Peach: Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): The second flight is underway in all counties.
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