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Scouting for Stalk Rots in Corn

August 27, 2021kgyoung

Alyssa Koehler, Extension Field Crops Pathologist; akoehler@udel.edu Over the past week, I have begun to see plants with accelerated senescence due to stalk rots (Figure 1). After pollination, the ear becomes the major sink of sugars produced by the plant.… Continue Reading →

Agronomic Crops 29:23, diplodia leaf streak, field corn, stalk rots

Agronomic Crop Insect Scouting

August 27, 2021kgyoung

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Soybean Reports are starting to come in of threshold levels of corn earworm in soybean. As a reminder, NCSU has a good earworm threshold calculator: https://www.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CEW-calculator-v0.006.html. Moths were active last week in fields with flowers,… Continue Reading →

Agronomic Crops 29:23, agronomic crop insect scouting

Netting to Control Birds in Vineyards

August 27, 2021kgyoung

Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Vineyard managers should take care to control birds at this time when sugar contents are peaking in grapes, making them a highly desirable food source. Netting is probably the most effective control… Continue Reading →

Fruit Crops 29:23, bird damage, grapes

Plectosporium Blight in Some Pumpkin Fields This Year

August 27, 2021kgyoung

Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu I am seeing some plectosporium blight in a few pumpkin fields this year, not as bad as last year but still there. This disease will probably increase if we continue having… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 29:23, Plectosporium Blight, pumpkin

Grasshoppers in High Populations

August 27, 2021kgyoung

Jerry Brust, IPM Vegetable Specialist, University of Maryland, jbrust@umd.edu This season keeps with the weird and unusual with reports of grasshoppers causing damage in many different vegetables. I thought this was just an unfortunate farm that was having problems with… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 29:23, grasshopper

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