PDF Version of WCU 20:10 – May 25, 2012 In this issue: Vegetable Crops Vegetable Crop Insects Early Planted Lima Beans Poor Stands or Stand Loss Due to Poor Seed or Plant Quality Spinach Foliar Diseases Apply Preventative Fungicides for… Continue Reading
Wednesday June 6, 2012 6:00-8:00 p.m. Carvel Research and Education Center 16483 County Seat Highway Georgetown, DE 19947 Tour the late pea variety trial and discuss preliminary results from the early pea trial. Preliminary results from tillage and cover crop… Continue Reading
Carl German, Extension Crops Marketing Specialist; clgerman@udel.edu Will Greece Stay or Go? Uncertainty in world equity markets, dry conditions in portions of the U.S Corn Belt, needed rain in the Russian wheat region, strengthening of the dollar, a commodity sell-off… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Alfalfa Potato leafhoppers are now present in fields so be sure to sample on a weekly basis. Once plants are yellow, yield loss has already occurred. The treatment thresholds are 20 per 100 sweeps… Continue Reading
Phillip Sylvester, Kent Co., Ag Agent; phillip@udel.edu and Nancy Gregory, Plant Diagnostician; ngregory@udel.edu LATE BLIGHT ON POTATO ALERT: From Andy Wyenandt, Extension Vegetable Pathologist, Rutgers University: Late blight was confirmed on actively sporulating leaf lesions from an 8 acre potato… Continue Reading
