Fruit IPM Report 5-27-13 – Click to View | Download | Print In this report: Peach Apple Pear Scouting Calendar Blueberry Trap Counts
Continue reading...May 28, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez
Will The FDA Preventive Control Rules Affect Your Farm?
Proposed Rule: Good Manufacturing Practices and Hazard Analysis and Risk Based Preventive Controls for Human Food. This is another proposed rule of the Food Safety Modernization Act which will affect some packinghouses, specifically operations that qualified for the FDA Food Facility Registration. Farms are exempt from this rule IF they grow and harvest produce in one […]
Continue reading...May 28, 2013 Ann Gould
Fireblight in Ornamental Rosaceae
Recent reports bring to mind that warm and wet spring weather is perfect for development of the bacterial disease known as fireblight in susceptible hosts. Fireblight is caused by Erwinia amylovora, a bacterium that only affects plants in the rose family (Rosaceae). Some common hosts include apple, crabapple, cotoneaster, hawthorn, mountain ash, pyracantha, and pear.
Continue reading...May 28, 2013 Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Pepper Weevil Alert #2
There are now 6 non-farm locations where adult pepper weevils are being trapped. Traps at 3 farm sites have also caught weevils in the past week, including 2 pepper fields. Large numbers of weevils are being trapped at one of these non-farm sites, 54 in a 4 day period. It is not clear if this […]
Continue reading...May 28, 2013 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Tomato Disease Forecasting Report 5-28-13
5-28-13 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...May 28, 2013 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 5-28-13
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 5-28-13 – 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 […]
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