Potato Disease Forecasting Report 5-17-13 – Click to Download Welcome to the new potato report for 2013! As always, we will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. Remember the threshold for P-days is 300! Once 300 P-days is reached for your location early […]
Continue reading...May 15, 2013 Administrator
Cranberry Growers Twilight Meeting
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 Location: Pine Island Cranberry Meeting Agenda 5:30: Dinner 6:30-7:00: Peter Oudemans, Troubleshooting Cranberry Disease Problems 7:00-7:30: Cesar Rodrigues-Saona, Identifying and Controlling Cranberry Insects 7:30-8:00: Pat Hastings, Safety Precautions in Cranberry Pest Control 8:30-9:00: Dave Frank, Current Status of Local Bee Populations & Controlling Bee Diseases 9:00-9:30: Ray Samulis, Farm Safety […]
Continue reading...May 15, 2013 Blueberry IPM Team
Blueberry IPM for 5-15-13
From the Blueberry Bulletin Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Extension Specialist in Blueberry Entomology Dean Polk, IPM Agent – Fruit Gene Rizio, IPM Program Associate – Fruit Aphids: About 32% of shoot samples are positive for aphid infestation. As was the case last week, these are single aphids. They have not started to multiply into colonies. At this […]
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May 14, 2013 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Tomato Disease Forecasting Report 5-14-13
5-14-13 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 […]
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