PDF Version of Volume 24, Issue 21 – August 12, 2016 WCU Subscription Options for 2016: Mail, Fax, Email or Text Vegetable Crops Vegetable Crop Insects Cover Crop Decisions for Vegetable Growers I: Basic Considerations & Winter Killed Cover Crops… Continue Reading
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 7:00 p.m. University of Delaware Paradee Center 69 Transportation Circle, Dover, DE 19901 Farm succession planning is a business and risk management practice that is critical to the agricultural industry and to the health of families… Continue Reading
Nathan Kleczewski, Extension Specialist – Plant Pathology; nkleczew@udel.edu Stalk rots are one of the most frequent and damaging issues for corn production. Corn plants produce sugars (carbon) through photosynthesis. These sugars are used as energy for growth and tissue maintenance.… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Soybeans We continue to find low levels of defoliators (Japanese beetles, bean leaf beetles, grasshoppers, silver spotted skipper, green cloverworm, yellow striped armyworm and isolated spots of fall armyworm) in both full season and… Continue Reading
Joanne Whalen, Extension IPM Specialist; jwhalen@udel.edu Cole Crops As soon as plants are set in the field, be sure to sample for cabbage looper and diamondback larvae. A treatment will be needed before larvae move into the hearts of the… Continue Reading
