Vegetables

Join us for our upcoming twilight/field day meetings to explore the latest agricultural developments and innovations. These informal gatherings offer interactive discussions on new technologies, sustainable practices, and upcoming trends in the agricultural sector. Connect with industry experts, network with fellow farmers, and gain valuable insights to enhance your farming operations.

A list of meetings for fruit and vegetable growers.

Western Maryland Research and Education Center - Keedysville Facility - Yield Year 2023: Keedysville Weather Station; UMD Bee Lab; Optimizing Early Season Pest Management for Maryland Field Corn; Biological Control - Introductions Targeting Spotted-Wing Drosophila; Effect of Soil Fertility on Triticale Yield and Quality; How We Came to Have the 'Monocacy' Hop; Maryland Soybean Fungicide Efficacy Trials; Do Slugs Detect and Avoid Ground Beetle Natural Enemies?; Rootstock Effect on 'Buckeye Gala' Tree Performance, Maturity and Fruit Quality; Effect of Potash Fertility on Orchardgrass Yield; Adapting to Climate Change

A list of meetings for Urban Agriculture growers.

Pesticide Updates, Bulletins Live! Two and Inspect Your PPE.

IpM Scouting Tips posted in the Fruit and Vegetable News.

This webpage is the production archives of the Women In Agriculture webinars.

Vegetable and Fruit News-2024 (Volume 15, Issue 9)

Weed management is more challenging in organic crops and accounts for a large portion of production costs. As such, managing weeds is a major economic constraint to the organic vegetable industry, and comparisons of weed communities between conventional and organic farming systems consistently demonstrate higher weed levels in organic systems.

Biosolarization, akin to solarization, is a soil disinfection technique but involves the addition of organic amendments before the passive solar heating process. As the damp soil warms, organic materials break down, releasing allelochemicals and other biotoxic compounds briefly into the soil. Read more about "Evaluating Biosolarization as a Weed management Tactic in Organic Vegetables."