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Updated: October 23, 2024

Timely Viticulture

Timely Viticulture is an electronic newsletter designed to remind grape producers of seasonal vineyard needs and considerations throughout the year.
Timely Viticulture Timeline
Updated: October 22, 2024

Organic Certification

For thousands of years, food has been produced utilizing naturally occurring minerals and organic nutrients. Historic discoveries from ancient Rome, to Egypt, to Mexico illustrate that the process of growing food crops heavily relied upon the use of manure and composted plant vegetation.
Updated: October 22, 2024

Agronomy News-April 2021

Agronomy News is a statewide newsletter for farmers, consultants, researchers, and educators interested in grain and row crop forage production systems. The topic for this edition is Cost-Share Grants Expanded, Evaluating Wheat Stands, Fusarium Head Blight Management, Early-Season Wheat Disease Scouting, April IPM Insect Scouting Tips, Cover Crop Termination for 2021, Maryland Circuit Court Judge Reverses Final Maryland AFO Permit, Maryland Ag Land Preservation, Pesticide Disposal Program, Pesticide Recertification Workbook, US Corn & Soybean Planting Acreage Report, Cooperators Needed For On-Farm Nitrogen Trials, What To Do With Thinning Alfalfa Stands, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.
Agronomy News Header April 2021 Issue
Updated: October 22, 2024

Pre-Bloom To Post-Bloom Disease Management

The growth period from 2 weeks pre-bloom until 3 to 4 weeks post-bloom is the most critical for protecting foliage, and especially flowers and newly set fruit from black rot (BR), Phomopsis (Ph), powdery mildew (PM), Downy mildew (DM), and Botrytis bunch rot infections.
Timely Viticulture Timeline: Pre-Bloom, Bloom, and Post Bloom
Updated: October 22, 2024

2009-2010 Pest Management Recommendations for Field Crops

This bulletin is divided into three sections - disease and nematode control, insect control, and weed control. The recommendations are listed according to crop and then pest. In the table of recommendations given under each crop, the pesticide recommendations are given in units (pints, pounds, and so forth) of commercial products. In most cases, the amount of active ingredient to be applied is given. This information will be useful if the pesticide is commercially available at different concentrations. If a pesticide concentration differs from that recommended, determine the amount of a given formulation you need to use to apply the pesticide at the recommended rate. For example, if the recommended rate is 1 pound of active ingredient, then you should use 2 pounds of a 50 percent, wettable-powder formulation. If the formulation is a liquid, you must know the pounds of active ingredient per gallon to make this calculation.
Updated: October 22, 2024

Spray Program for Multi-Tree Fruit Orchards

Multi-fruit orchard spray program for the control of major tree fruit pests and diseases.
Updated: October 22, 2024

Commercial Blueberry Production

A variety of information on commercial blueberry production including organic production, pest and weed management, frost and freeze prevention, and more.
Blueberries
Updated: October 22, 2024

Women In Agriculture Webinar Series on Risk Management: Production

This webpage is the production archives of the Women In Agriculture webinars.
Updated: October 22, 2024

Early Season Scouting for Wheat Diseases

Some foliar diseases affecting wheat can be present early in the season. Scout fields early so you can be prepared to make management decisions.
Green wheat field in spring prior to jointing
Updated: October 22, 2024

Grape Root Borer-Background, Scouting, and Management

The grape root borer (GRB), Vitacea polistiformis (Harris), is an insect pest native to the Eastern United States. Its range is from the central Midwest (west) to the Atlantic Ocean (east) and from Florida and Texas (south) to Vermont and Michigan (north). GRB is a pest of all commercial grape types and feeds on native Vitis. It has a long life cycle and takes many years for it to do significant damage to grapevines. However, once grape root borers are present in a vineyard, the unlimited susceptible food source can dramatically increase the infestation. The grape root borer effect may not be immediately apparent on the vines, but once the number of larvae reaches a sufficient level, damage can be significant. Because it is an ("invisible") root tunneling pest, many growers are unaware of the economic damage being caused by GRB.
Timely Viticulture Timeline: Mid Season, Pre-Harvest, and Harvest