6-6-14 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 […]
Continue reading...June 4, 2014 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 6/4/14
Vegetable IPM Report 6-4-14 – Click to View | Download | Print Maps for the Week –European Corn Borer Population Map –Pepper Weevil Trap Catch Map Topics for the Week Sweet Corn Cole Crops Peppers Tomatoes Pepper Weevil Report BMSB
Continue reading...June 3, 2014 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, and Atanas Atanassov
Fruit IPM Report June 3, 2014
This week in Fruit IPM Peach Apple Pear Wine Grapes Scouting Calendar Blueberry Tree Fruit Trap Counts Blueberry Trap Counts Click to View | Download PDF
Continue reading...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 […]
Continue reading...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 […]
Continue reading...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 […]
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