Click to View | Download Report 6-3-16 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...Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 6/01/16

Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) adults are being captured with more frequency in the northern half of the state now, but overall, catches are low. Highest activity is now found in Cumberland and Morris counties with local hotspots elsewhere (see ECB map). The earliest sweet corn plantings are now the right size to support ECB larval infestations. […]
Continue reading...Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 5-31-16
Click to View | Download Report 5-31-16 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...Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 5-27-16
Click to View | Download Report 5-27-16 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...Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 5/25/16

Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) adults are being captured with more frequency now, but most captures remain limited to the southwestern portion of the state (see ECB map), although scattered individuals have been captured as far north as Morris County. Warmer nights for the rest of this week may result in increased catches for the […]
Continue reading...Vegetable Disease Briefs – 5/25/16
No new reports of Late blight in the region this past week. Cucurbit downy mildew has been reported on cucumber as far north as south-central Georgia. Septoria leaf spot has been reported in Parsley. Anthracnose fruit rot is being reported in strawberry. Botrytis is being reported in greenhouse tomatoes and in strawberries fields. The weather the […]
Continue reading...