Nate Bruce, Farm Business Management Specialist, nsbruce@udel.edu Small grains budgets for 2024 – 2025 are in the associated excel file found here https://sites.udel.edu/weeklycropupdate/files/2024/08/Small-Grains-2024_25.xlsx Wheat and malting barley budgets are both given. In addition, double crop soybean budgets are also in… Continue Reading
WCU Volume 32, Issue 14 – June 14, 2024, PDF of WCU Volume 32:14 – June 14, 2024 WCU Subscription Options for 2024: Mail, Email, or Text Vegetable Crops Vegetable Crop Insect Scouting Summer Cover Crops for Delaware Vegetable Systems… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu While scouting a cantaloupe field, we came across this wilted portion of a plant. What is a likely cause? Click on the Guess The Pest logo to enter in your guess on the google sheet.… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Congratulations to Buzz Lowe for correctly unscrambling the pests from last week. A = Spider Mite – I fear this will be a mite year in many crops; B = clover worm – a sometimes… Continue Reading
David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Alfalfa Potato leafhopper are present in alfalfa. Cutting alfalfa will destroy nymphs, but adults will leave fields for nearby hosts. Take 10 sweeps in 10 locations. If alfalfa is at 60% bud or flowering, harvest… Continue Reading
