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New FMC Insecticide ELEVEST

May 1, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu FMC is launching a new insecticide, ELEVEST, and is in the process of securing state registrations. It is unknown if or how much will be available for 2020. This product is a premix of chlorantraniliprole… Continue Reading →

Agronomic Crops, General, Vegetable Crops 27:8, field corn, insecticide labels, peas, potato, soybean, sweet corn

Freeze Damage to Processing Peas

April 24, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu We are seeing a few pea fields with freeze damage that occurred on Friday, April 17. The peas injured were starting to grow rapidly and 6-12” in height. Peas normally are very… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 28:6, freeze injury, peas

Guess the Pest! Week 2 Answer: Seed Corn Maggot

April 17, 2020Emmalea Garver Ernest

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu Congratulations to Michael Crossley for correctly identifying seedcorn maggot as the culprit behind the missing pea stand! The photo was taken of a field in which we try to do everything wrong: disking in fallow… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 28:5, peas, seed corn maggot

Guess the Pest! Week 6 Answer: Soil Compaction

May 16, 2019Emmalea Garver Ernest

David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu and Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Congratulations to Will Carlisle for correctly answering soil compaction. Will will receive a sweep net and be entered along with all correct guessers for the end… Continue Reading →

General, Vegetable Crops 27:8, Guess the Pest!, peas, soil health

Yellowing in Peas

May 16, 2019Emmalea Garver Ernest

Gordon Johnson, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist; gcjohn@udel.edu Pea harvest is nearing and we are seeing yellowing and poor growth in many pea fields due to wet conditions. Peas do not perform well in soils that are worked when they… Continue Reading →

Vegetable Crops 27:8, biological nitrogen fixation, pea root rot, peas, vegetable crop nutrients

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