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Updated: September 25, 2023
Fruit and Vegetable Grower Meetings
A list of meetings for fruit and vegetable growers.
Updated: September 19, 2023
Urban Agriculture Grower Meetings
A list of meetings for Urban Agriculture growers.
Updated: September 6, 2023
Women In Agriculture Webinar Series on Risk Management: Production
This webpage is the production archives of the Women In Agriculture webinars.
Updated: August 23, 2023
Disease Management–Botrytis
Botrytis is a major disease threat as harvest approaches. Botrytis cinerea is a fungus that affects many plant species, especially wine grapes, where it is commonly known as Botrytis bunch rot or gray mold.
Updated: August 14, 2023
Vegetable and Fruit News-August 2023
Vegetable and Fruit News, Volume 14, Issue 6 (August 2023). Topics include:
Updated: August 11, 2023
IPM Vegetable and Fruit Scouting Tips
IpM Scouting Tips posted in the Fruit and Vegetable News.
Updated: August 10, 2023
Unusually High Spotted-Wing Drosophila Pressure
The invasive spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) is the key insect pest of soft-skinned fruit across the United States. With the recent wet weather, we have been experiencing higher than normal spotted wing drosophila (SWD) pressure.
Updated: August 8, 2023
Vegetable and Fruit News-July 2023
Vegetable and Fruit News, Volume 14, Issue 5 (July 2023). Topics include: Black Root Rot found in strawberry plantings, Southern bacterial wilt of tomato, Water core in apples: what is it, what causes it and how can it be controlled?, Tomato Pollination and Bumblebee Visits, Maryland Department of Agriculture Announces New Strategy at Nutrient Management Summit, Watch for Thrips and Mites in Vegetables, Irregular Ripening In Watermelon, Cucurbit Downy Mildew Reported in Delaware, Harlequin Bugs Are Especially Bad This Season, Upcoming UME Events, and July insect scouting tips.
Updated: July 20, 2023
Tomato Pollination and Bumblebee Visits
While visiting a tomato field this week I saw the tell-tale signs on the flowers that this field was being visited by bumble bees that were pollinating the tomato flowers. In the field wind movement is usually enough to cause pollination in a tomato flower, but at times there are very calm days and nights with very ‘heavy’ air and little wind movement. However, even with wind action it is always beneficial to have bumble bees perform buzz pollination, which can greatly in-crease fruit set..
Updated: July 19, 2023
Black Root Rot found in strawberry plantings
Black Root Rot found in strawberry plantings in the Mid-Atlantic this season.
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