This is the last weekly issue of Weekly Crop Update for the 2024 season! There will be a monthly update to the WCU Blog with notes, articles, and announcements from October through February. Notification of the monthly updates will be… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Congratulations to Richard Wilkins and several others for correctly identifying the sneaky cause of these stunted plants as salt injury. I fear this is something that we will need to be increasingly vigilant about and… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu As combines roll into fields, thought it might be fitting to share this photo of a corn field with uneven, poor stand along the edge of the field. What might have contributed to the unthriftyness… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Congratulations to Keith McGowan and others for identifying nematodes and sudden death syndrome. The stem question was a tough one. The discoloration is actually from Dectes stem borer tunneling. This particular field had heavy Dectes… Continue Reading
Mark VanGessel, Extension Weed Specialist; mjv@udel.edu Fall is often a good time and most convenient time to treat most perennial weeds because it is the time that plants are best able to translocate the herbicide to the roots where it… Continue Reading
