Plant & Pest Advisory

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June 3, 2014 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez

Why On-Farm Food Safety Will Not Go Away

Cumberland County Ag Agent Dr. Wesley Kline, has been educating farmers statewide about on-farm food safety for over ten years. Most people don’t know that Wes chose this focus not because of a passionate interest in it, but because farmers asked him to do it and he agreed that it represented an important issue confronting […]

Filed Under: Food Safety

June 2, 2014 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar

Potato Disease Forecasting Report 6-3-14

Potato Disease Forecasting Report 6-3-14 – Click to Download 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 in southern […]

Filed Under: Disease Forecasting

June 2, 2014 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar

Tomato Disease Forecasting Report 6-3-14

6-3-14 Tomato Report – Click to Download Disease severity values (DSVs) for early blight, septoria leaf spot, and tomato anthracnose development are determined daily based on leaf wetness (due to rainfall, dew) and air temperature. On a daily basis DSV values can range from 0 to 4 where 0 = no chance for disease development […]

Filed Under: Disease Forecasting

May 31, 2014 Andy Wyenandt

Vegetable Briefs 6-1-14

Phytophthora blight is being reported in summer squash Angular leaf spot in cucurbits is wide spread in some areas Pythium and Rhizoctonia root rot have been reported in tomato and eggplant transplants Cucurbit downy mildew has been reported on cucumber as far north as Southern Georgia. To track cucurbit downy mildew in the US please visit http://cdm.ipmpipe.org/ […]

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops

May 31, 2014 Andy Wyenandt

Vegetable Disease Update – 6/1/14

Pepper Bacterial Leaf Spot – Symptoms of bacterial leaf spot on pepper leaves include small, brown water-soaked lesions that turn brown and necrotic in the centers. Spots may coalesce and form large blighted areas on leaves and premature defoliation can occur. On fruit, brown lesions can form which have a roughened, cracked wart-like appearance. High […]

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops

May 30, 2014 Richard Buckley

Golf Turf Disease of the Week: Anthracnose Basal Crown Rot

Sample of a mixed bent grass and annual bluegrass putting green with anthracnose basal crown rot. Photo: Sabrina Tirpak, Rutgers PDL

Surprise, surprise! Our old friend anthracnose basal crown rot just came home to roost! An unexpected influx of putting green samples diagnosed with anthracnose were submitted to Rutgers Plant Diagnostic Lab this week.

Filed Under: Landscape, Nursery, & Turf, Plant Diagnostic Lab Tagged With: anthracnose