Plant Diseases Management

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

A variety of information on commercial blueberry production including organic production, pest and weed management, frost and freeze prevention, and more.

Tar Spot is Starting to Appear in Maryland

Many vineyards are approaching or already within 30 days of the anticipated harvest date for early wine grape varieties. During this window, grape berries are becoming very susceptible to a variety of late-season rots, such as ripe rot, sour rot, Botrytis bunch rot, and other “secondary-fungi” associated with bunch rots.

Timely Viticulture Updates

To monitor Pesticide Use Limitation Areas (PULAs) for your farms, use the Check Bulletin Live! Two (BLT) platform.

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

Multi-fruit orchard spray program for the control of major tree fruit pests and diseases.

Grape flowers and fruit set is a very complicated process, which can be influenced by cultivar, environment, vine status and history, biotic and abiotic factors. Optimum conditions for fruit set include high light intensity, warm temperature, and adequate soil moisture and nutrients at bloom. Good fruit set is important for proper cluster formation, development, and ultimate desired maturation and harvest of fruit. The following is some basics on fruit set and some potential causes of poor fruit set.

The Crop Protection Network (cropprotectionnetwork.com) is a national working group comprised of Extension agents and specialists from across North America that provide data through publications regarding pest management in agronomic crops. The website and publications can be a great resource for your operation. The following are the most recent fungicide efficacy tables for foliar diseases of corn and soybean.