2025 | Volume 16, Issue 2
Inside this issue:
- Preventing Senescent Scald: Key Strategies for Apple Growers
- Blueberry Update for Fruit Set
- Checking Bulletin Live! Two
- Water Quality for Spraying Counts!
- Research Summary: Efficacy of sodium hypochlorite and peracetic acid in reducing cross-contamination during washing of baby spinach at different water quality levels
- Understanding Maryland's New Heat Stress Standards
- Timely Viticulture Updates: Bloom Tissue Sampling & Early Season Disease Management
- Vegetable Crop Insect Scouting
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Vegetable Production Guide Mid-Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations (EB-236)
Vegetable Production Guide Mid-Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations (EB-236) -
Spray Program for Multi-Small Fruit Plantings
Spray Program for Multi-Small Fruit Plantings -
Common Fruit Herbicides*
Common Fruit Herbicides*
Upcoming UME Events!
Event: Strawberry Twilight Tour
Date: May 13, 2025 | Time: 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Wye Research & Education Center, 124 Wye Narrows Dr, Queenstown, MD 21658.
Registration: bit.ly/strawberry2025
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Event: Ag Integrated Pest Management Web Series
Time: 12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Online webinar (via Zoom)
Description: Weeds, diseases, and insects are often a major concern for growers in Maryland. Integrated pest management (IPM) programs incorporate multiple pest management strategies into their production practices. Join us monthly for timely topics to help manage pests on the farms. Hosted via Zoom, on the Third Thursday of every month at noon, these one-hour sessions are both informative and interactive, providing an opportunity for participants to learn and engage with specialists in the field.
- May 15th - Managing squash bugs and cucumber beetles in cucurbit crops - Dr. Tom Kuhar, Virginia Tech.
- June 26th - Palmer amaranth and pigweed control - Dr. Kurt M. Vollmer, University of Maryland Extension Specialist-Weed Management
- July 17th - Corn spot and tar update and prevention - Andy Kness, University of Maryland Extension
- August 21st - Managing late-season corn earworm - Hayden Schug, University of Maryland Extension
- September 18th - Neo-P and other strawberry diseases - Dr. Mengjun Hu, University of Maryland
- October 16th - Cover crops for weed management - Dr. Dwayne Joseph, University of Maryland Extension
Pesticide Credits will be available but vary by date. Please contact Emily Zobel (ezobel@umd.edu) or Hayden Schug (hschug@umd.edu) for more information.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Emily Zobel (ezobel@umd.edu) or Hayden Schug (hschug@umd.edu).
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Event: In Person, PSA Produce Safety Rule Grower Training
Date: May 10, 2025 | Saturday
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Cost: $45
Location: 10789 Stewart Neck Road Princess Anne, MD 21853
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/psa-produce-safety-rule-psr-grower-training-princess-anne-md-tickets-1233875257109?aff=erelexpmlt
For more information: If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this activity, contact Margaret Todd at motodd@law.umaryland.edu
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Event: Weed Management Workshop for Small Farms
Date: May 22, 2025 | Thursday
Time: 9 am - 12:30 p.m. | Cost: $10
Location: 3901 West Bay Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21225.
To register online, go to https://go.umd.edu/smallfarmweed2025. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Emily Zobel (410)-228-8800.
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GAP Training Classes: Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) training courses are eight hours of produce safety information. The goal is to have your farm's food safety plan initiated while you are in class. Classes form as requested. https://ume.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d5sq5Gbuqhm5nD0
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Hiring and Retaining Farm Employees – What you Need to Know and Do
Are you trying to find, hire and keep great employees? Is it a bit confusing and time consuming? Do you know where to start and who to involve? Are you worried about the legal considerations when having non-family members employed? This course will help you sort through all these questions and concerns. Navigating this process doesn’t have to be difficult as this course will share with you. Through the four modules of this course, you’ll get important information and resources you can adapt for your own operation. For more information go to https://agrisk.umd.edu/grant-proposals/hiring-and-retaining-farm-employees
Extensión en Español Check out Extensión en Español, a Spanish language blog by two UMD professors, Anahí Espíndola (Entomology) and Macarena Farcuh (Plant Sciences & Landscape Architecture). https://extensionesp.umd.edu/
They cover a range of topics, including fruit, pollinators, pests, soils, and pesticides.
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Vegetable & Fruit News is a research-based publication for the commercial vegetable and fruit industry available electronically from April through October. Published by the University of Maryland Extension Agriculture and Food Systems team.
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EDITOR
Emily Zobel University of Maryland Extension Agent - Dorchester County
501 Court Lane, Room 208
Cambridge, MD 21613
Phone: (410) 410-228-8800
Email: ezobel@umd.edu
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