PDF Version of WCU 21:11 – June 7, 2013 WCU Subscription Options for 2013: Mail, Fax, Email or Text Vegetables Vegetable Crop Insects Flooding Waterlogged Soils and Vegetables Phytophthora capsici in Early Vegetables with Wet Conditions Checklist of Cultural Management… Continue Reading
Jennifer Volk, Extension Environmental Quality and Management Specialist; jennvolk@udel.edu The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Agriculture Workgroup hosted a 2-day “Building a Better Bay Model” workshop for agricultural partners across the watershed. The workshop, which was held May 22 and 23 at… Continue Reading
Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu As I mentioned last week, there have a few instances of growers with fields of wheat or barley with bleached heads. Generally the bleaching is found throughout the field and is not… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Alfalfa Continue to sample for potato leafhoppers on a weekly basis. We continue to find adults and nymphs in fields. Although both life stages can damage alfalfa, the nymphs can cause damage very quickly.… Continue Reading
Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland; jbrust@umd.edu Growers and an alert county agent, Ben Beale, have found what most likely will be an infestation of spotted wing drosophila (SWD) in cherries in southern Maryland (St. Mary’s County). I… Continue Reading
