PDF Version of WCU 22:10 – May 30, 2014 WCU Subscription Options for 2014: Mail, Fax, Email or Text Vegetable Crops Vegetable Crop Insects Pythium Damping-Off in Transplanted Watermelon Sweet Corn Vigor and Stand Issues Potato Disease Advisory #3 –… Continue Reading
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will provide $280,000 in assistance to Delaware farmers in the Clear Brook-Nanticoke River watershed who voluntarily make improvements to their land to improve water quality. Funding is provided through the National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI),… Continue Reading
Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu With recent hail, some growers may be wondering about the use of certain fungicides (specifically some containing strobilurin active ingredients) for the mitigation of plant stress such as hail damage. Some people… Continue Reading
Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu In some of the early flowering wheat fields we are seeing VERY LOW levels of Fusarium head blight (FHB). The worst field I have seen I estimated to about 1% incidence, meaning… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist;jwhalen@udel.edu Alfalfa Continue to sample for potato leafhoppers on a weekly basis. We can find both adults and nymphs in fields. Both life stages can damage alfalfa but the nymphs can cause damage very quickly. Once… Continue Reading
