PDF Version of WCU 18:12 – June 4, 2010 In this issue: Vegetables Vegetable Crop Insects Calcium Disorders Potato Disease Advisory #6 – June 3, 2010 Late Blight Update MELCAST Forecasting for Gummy Stem Blight on Watermelon and Alternaria Leaf… Continue Reading
Carl German, Extension Crops Marketing Specialist; clgerman@udel.edu Commodity Markets Grow More Bearish New crop Dec ‘10 corn and July ‘10 SRW wheat closed below support levels at the close in yesterday’s trading. Dec corn broke $3.74, closing at $3.69 and… Continue Reading
Richard Taylor, Extension Agronomist; rtaylor@udel.edu During the past two growing season, I’ve tried a number of remedies for a common early season problem on field corn. It seems that more and more corn has been showing distinctive interveinal chlorosis (yellowing… Continue Reading
Richard Taylor, Extension Agronomist; rtaylor@udel.edu If you were one of those producers whose pasture or hay field replanting was prevented by this past spring’s cold rainy weather, now is the time to consider a method of preparing the field for… Continue Reading
Bob Mulrooney, Extension Plant Pathologist; bobmul@udel.edu It is the first week of June and there is no active soybean rust in the US. This is very unusual compared to past seasons. The cold winter in the South killed back kudzu… Continue Reading
