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  2009
Issue Contents
November 2009
  • Anthracnose Crown Rot in Strawberries
  • Green Bush Bean Cultivar Trial
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Prevent Tomato Late Blight Next Growing Season
  • Here's the Buzz on Getting Started with a Fascinating Hobby
  • Upcoming Meetings
October 2009
  • Tomato Late Blight: Fall Cleanup
  • Mulching Strawberries for Winter Protection
  • Upcoming Meetings
September 2009
  • Late Season Strawberry Care - Including Foliar Disease Management
  • More about Tomato Ripening Problems and the Role of Potassium
  • New Invasive Pest Threatens Corn Growers in Pennsylvania
  • Upcoming Meetings
August 2009
  • Two Spotted Spider Mites in Watermelon
  • A Study of Alternative Controls for Gray Mold on Raspberries
  • Blueberry IPM Training at Perry Acres, Berks County, PA
  • Native Bee Benefits for Growers Factsheet Available
  • Upcoming Meetings
July 2009
  • Vegetable Disease Updates
  • Farmer's Market Opportunity
  • PestWatch 2009
  • Hornworms in Tomatoes
  • Upcoming Meetings
May 2009
  • New Sweet Corn Herbicides Require Careful Planning
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Causes of Misshapen Strawberries
  • Crop Rotation for Organic Farms Planning Manual Now Available for Pre-Sale
  • New Farmer's Market in Chambersburg
  • Pennsylvania Women's Agricultural Network Addresses Extension Needs for Farm Women
  • IPM for Strawberries in the N.E. US Guide
  • Timber Rot, White Mold, or Sclerotinia Rot in High Tunnels
  • Upcoming Meetings
April 2009
  • Key Steps to Avoiding Bacterial Leaf Spot in Peppers
  • What was Learned in 2008 about Managing Phytophthora Blight in Cucurbit Crops in PA and NY
  • Keeping Fresh Produce Safe Using Good Agricultural Practices (GAP)
  • New Publication: Using Organic Nutrient Sources
  • Summary and Recommendations for the Use of Mulch Color in Vegetable Production
  • Upcoming Meetings
March 2009
  • Effectively Managing Powdery Mildew in Cucurbit Crops in 2009 with Research Results from 2008
  • 2008 Bell Pepper Variety Evaluation
February 2009
  • Marketing in Tough Times
  • Brushing Plants for Height Control
  • Day-Neutral Strawberry Varieties - Research Results
  • Upcoming Meetings
January 2009

  • Organic Matter Application - Can You Apply Too Much?
  • Results of the 2008 Fresh Market Tomato Trial, Commercial and Consumer Tasting and Yellow Shoulder Evaluation
  • White Asparagus Production
  • Rhubarb Growing Tips
  • Five Essential Steps for Marketing Your Business
  • Back to Basics - Crop Rotation
  • Crop Location Could Cause Illegal Residues
  • Upcoming Meetings

 

  2008
Issue Contents
December 2008
  • Clean Energy Farming Publication
  • Biodegradable Plastic Mulch and Paper Mulch: Where Do We Stand!
  • Rebybling and Recovery of Energy Stored in Used Plastics
  • Migratory Beekeeping--Second Thoughts...
  • Hold the Date: Monday, February 16, 2009: Tri-County Small Fruit and Vegetable Growers Meeting
  • Upcoming Meetings
November 2008
  • Ask the Expert!
  • Putnam Scale on Blueberries
  • Energy on the Farm: How to Reduce Costs and Generate Revenue
  • Greenhouse Insect Management Workshop
  • Upcoming Meetings
October 2008
  • Ask the Expert!
  • Managing the Unmanageable...Phytophthora Blight
  • Humidity Control in the Greenhouse
  • Corn Earworm: Results of Pyrethroid Resistance Tests from Pennsylvania
  • Changing Recommendations Accompanying Soil Test Results for a Different Crop
  • The New Bug on the Block--Emerald Ash Borer
  • Greenhouse Insect Management Workshop
  • Mid-Atlantic Young Grower Alliance Seeking Young Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers
September 2008
  • Introducing a New Editor
  • Ask the Expert!
  • Consider Cover Crops to Reduce Fertilizer Imputs
  • Know Your Enemy: Pigweeds
  • Harvesting, Curing, and Post-Harvest Care of Pumpkins and Winter Squash
  • Day-Nuetral Strawberry Production Events
  • Diagnosis, Visual Assessment and Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes of Vegetables & Small Fruit in the Northeast
  • Statewide Cultivar Trials: Bell Peppers
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
August 2008
  • New Material Available for Control of Corn Earworm in Sweet Corn
  • Update on Cucurbit Downy Mildew
  • Fungicide Sensitivity Assay Provides Information to Guide Cucurbit Powdery Mildew Management in Pa in 2008
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Sweet Corn and the Sap Beetle
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
July 2008
  • Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers' Field Day at Landisville
  • Successful Control of Powdery Mildew in Cucurbit Crops Challenged by Evolving Pathogen
  • Managing Downy Mildew of Cucurbits
  • New State Vegetable Disease Specialist
  • 1-800 Number Kicks Off Fifteenth Season of IPM
  • Pestwatch Tracking High Earworm Counts Early in 2008
  • Upcoming Meetings
June 2008
  • Know Your Enemy: Common Purslane
  • Grower's Guide to Understanding the DMI or SBI (sterol biosynthesis inhibitor) Fungicides (FRAC code 3)
  • Sweet Corn Hybrid Tolerance Ratings to Accent and Callisto
  • Blueberry Anthracnose (Ripe Rot) - A Problem for 2008?
  • Fungicide Resistance Management Information On-line
  • Dual Now Labeled for Row Middles of Pumpkins
  • Vegetable Growers Field Day
  • Upcoming Meetings
May 2008
  • Using Visual Cues to Increase Sales: Farm Market Marketing at the Next Level
  • Know Your Enemy: Yellow Nutsedge
  • Copper Applications and Oxidate
  • Day-Neutral Strawberry Production Workshops
  • New Categories on Penn State's Agricultural Analytical Laboratory Soil Test Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings
April 2008
  • Biological Fungicides and Bactericides
  • Know Your Enemy: Common Cocklebur
  • Vegetable Transplant Height Control
  • Insecticide Update: New Labels and Lable Changes for 2008
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Mid-Atlantic Berry Guide on Web
  • A New Hydroponic Lettuce Production System for High Tunnels
  • On-Farm Safety
  • Managing Phytophthora Blight in Cucurbits
  • Grower's Guide to Understanding Protectant Fungicides
  • Upcoming Meetings
March 2008
  • Know Your Enemy: Large Crabgrass
  • Vegetable Growers Field Day
  • Answers to Questions Growers Ask Beekeepers
  • Functions of PGR's in Plants
  • While You're Pruning Blackberries and Raspberries
  • Upcoming Meetings
February 2008
  • Understanding Bumblebees
  • Micronutrients and Growing Great Tomatoes
  • Tomato Trial Report 2007
  • Know Your Enemy: Eastern Black Nightshade
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
January 2008

  • Laudis and Define Now Registered for Sweet Corn
  • Know Your Enemy: Velvetleaf
  • Pumpkin Variety Trials
  • Micro-green Production Tip
  • Grafting Watermelons
  • Compliance Assistance Visits
  • Berry Growers Convention
  • Radiant SC: New Insecticide
  • Upcoming Meetings

 

  2007
Issue Contents
December 2007
  • Strawberry Nutrition Notes
  • 2007 Census of Agriculture
  • Regent 4 SC Receives Supplemental Label for Control of Wireworms in Potatoes
  • Tips for Using Compost
  • How Fungicides Work: Part 4
  • Know Your Customers
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Know Your Enemy: The Ragweeds
November 2007
  • Know Your Enemy: Field Bindweed
  • Bee Researchers Close In On Colony Collapse Disorder
  • Grower 101: Operating and Maintaining Grreenhouse Ventilation
  • Haygrove Owners Conference
  • New Article to Help Organic Farmers Understand Laws
  • How Fungicides Work Part 3: Most of What We Need to Know About the Plant
  • Upcoming Meetings
October 2007
  • Know Your Enemy: Common Lambsquarters
  • New Fungicides for Berries
  • Farmer Grant Program
  • Little Wasps Take on a Big Worm
  • Why Such High Corn Earworm Captures
  • Growing Lettuce in High Tunnels
  • Japanese Beetle Management for Organic Fruit Farms
September 2007
  • Phytophthora and Irrigation Water
  • PA AG Producers Urged to Apply Now for Federal Conservation Programs
  • Pumpkin and Winter Squash Harvest and Storage
  • New Grape Grower Workshop in PA
  • Hydroponic Strawberry Production - Lessons Learned
August 2007
  • Spider Mite Management
  • Small Fruit in High Tunnel at PSU - What Have We Learned?
  • Weeds, Insects and Pumpkin Viruses
  • High Tunnel Tour - Ag Progress Days, Rock Springs, PA
  • Tomato Tasting/ Twilight Meeting
  • Fungicide Sensitivity Assay Provides Information to Guide Cucurbit Powdery Mildew Management in Pennsylvania 2007
  • Phytophthora Root Rot of Raspberry
  • More Herbicides Registered for Sweet Corn
  • "Villetta Rose" (W2275-3R), a Red Skin Potato Line for Fresh Market and Canning
  • Broad Mite Outbreak Once Again Hits South Central PA Growers
  • Is Air Quality Impacting Your Vegetable Crops?
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
July 2007
  • Need for Change in 2007 to the Powdery Mildew Management Program for Cantaloupe and Other Cucurbits
  • Steps to Effective Control of Powdery Mildew in Cucurbits
  • Spray Adjuvants for Insecticides and Fungicides
  • Downy Mildew is Here
  • Grower/Marketer Opportunity
June 2007
  • Leaf Mold in Greenhouse Tomatoes
  • Do You Have a Traceback System?
  • Strawberry Rootworm
  • Corn Earworm Pesticide Resistance
  • Managing Cucurbit Downy Mildew
  • Soil Applied Herbidices and Rainfall
  • Wegmans Food Markets
  • Sweet Corn Production and Harvesting Twilight Meeting
  • Cover Crops for Early Summer
  • Trhips Invasion Could Wreak Havoc
  • Upcoming Meetings
May 2007
  • Nutrition Management for Greenhouse and High Tunnel Tomato Production
  • Protecting Honey Bees from Chemical Pesticides
  • Summary of Small Fruit Pesticide Changes for 2007
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Avoiding TipBurn on Lettuce and Radicchio
  • NASGA Summer Tour: Ontario and New York
  • Tissue Analysis: An Essential Tool
  • Upcoming Meetings
April 2007
  • Using Cover Crops to Reduce Erosion
  • Corrections/Changes to the 2007 Vegetable Recommendations
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Updated Small Fruit Pesticide Tables
  • Imidacloprid, Bees and Vegetables
  • Frost Protection: Tips and Techniques
  • Newspaper and Straw Mulches for Suppressing Weeds
  • New Grower Opportunity
March 2007
  • Bacterial Canker on Tomato
  • Recent Onion Herbicide Options
  • Managing Shore Flies and Fungus Gnats
  • New Philadelphia Farmer's Market
  • Berry Cultivar Update, Part 3
  • Colony Collapse Disorder
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Ethylene and Sulfur Dioxide Injury
February 2007
  • Broad Mites in Bell Peppers
  • Greenhouse Tomato Focus - Black Dot Fungus
  • Farm Market Opportunity
  • How Fungicides Work, Part 2
  • Could Your Florel Failure Be Tied to the Alkalinity of Your Water Supply?
  • Berry Cultivar Update, Part 2
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • New HortReport Editor
January 2007
  • Should There Be a High Tunnel in Your Future?
  • Disease Mamagement in Onions
  • White Asparagus - The Basics
  • How Fungicides Work, The Series
  • Berry Cultivar Ypdate
  • Strawberry Plasticulture Nutrition Research Update
  • New Strawberry Herbicide: Chateau
  • Upcoming Meetings

 

  2006
Issue Contents
November 2006
  • Bacterial Disease of Onion
  • Ohio State Factsheet: Seed Treatment for Bacterial Pathogens
  • Cut Flower New Growers School
  • Observations from the Northeast
  • Organic Yellow Nutsedge Management
October 2006
  • Fall Weed Management
  • Tomato Greenhouse Course
  • Powdery Mildew on Strawberries
August 2006
  • Common Rust of Sweet Corn
  • Are Phosphates the Same as Phoshpites?
  • Maximizing the Benefits of Plant Tissue Analysis
  • Another Strawberry Insect!
  • Tomato Insects to be Looking For
July 2006
  • Pumpkin Downy Mildew Controls for Pennsylvania
  • Maximizing Yield by Understanding Vine Crop Pollination
  • Identifying Initial Downy Mildew Symptoms in Cucurbits is Critical for Successful Management
  • Spray Drift Management
  • Wet Weather Problems in the State
  • 10 Useful Rules for Fungicide Application
  • Late Blight Confirmed on Tomato Field in Lancaster County
  • Corn Worm Status
  • Greenhouse Design and Operation Course
  • Lexar is Also Now Registered for Sweet Corn
  • Diamondback Moth
  • Upcoming Meetings
June 2006
  • Fusarium Fruit Rot
  • Topping Sweet Corn
  • "Grower to Grower" Meetings
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • The Organic Way--Are Spent Mushroom Substrate and Mushroom Compost the Same Materials?
  • Upcoming Meetings
May 2006
  • Sap Beetles--a Frequent Strawberry Pest
  • Corn Earworm: Preliminary Results of Pyrethroid Resistance Tests from Pennsylvania
  • New Insecticide Label Information for 2006
  • Lumax and Camix Now Registered for Sweet Corn
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Bacterial Spot and Speck of Tomato
  • Did You Lose the Trickle Tape?
  • Herbicide Label Changes for Asparagus
  • Managing Diseases of Tomatoes in High Tunnels
April 2006
  • Gray Mold (Botrytis Blight) Management in Strawberries
  • Strawberry Frost Protection by Sprinkling
  • Chickweed Control in Strawberry
  • Onion Newsletter for 2006
  • 2006 Pennsylvania Vegetable and Small Fruit Field Day
  • Indar Section 18 Approval for Mummy Berry in PA for 2006
  • Slight Change to Stinger Label for Strawberries
March 2006
  • Will Stewart's Bacterial Wilt be a Problem this Year?
  • Perennial Weed Control
  • Whiteflies on Greenhouse Tomatoes
February 2006
  • Managing Botrytis (Gray Mold) in the Greenhouse
  • 2005 Pumpkin Variety Evaluations
  • Three New Guides Available
  • Rotational Crop Planting Restrictions for New Sweet Corn Herbicides
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Berry Crop Insecticide/Miticide Groups
  • Do Rotations Matter Within Disease Management Programs?
January 2006
  • Use of Poultry Manure for Vegetable Crop Production (Part 2)
  • Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention
  • Best of the HortReport Book
  • Tri-County Vegetable/Greenhouse Growers Meeting
  • PASA 15th Annual Farming for the Future Meeting
  • Producing Disease-Free Tomato and Pepper Transplants
  • Start Now for Insect and Disease Management in Vegetable Transplants
  • Biodegradable Plastic Mulch Evaluation
  • Upcoming Meetings

 

 

  2005
Issue Contents
December 2005
  • Pyrethrum, Pyrethrins, Pyrethroids, Permethrin, What's the Difference?
  • Maximizing Fruit Quality in Fresh Market Tomatoes
  • New High Tunnel Publication
  • Use of Poultry Manure for Vegetable Crop Production (Part 1)
  • New Holland Vegetable Day January 16
  • Tri-County Vegetable/Small Fruit Growers Meeting
  • 2006 Mid-Atlantic Direct Marketing Conference and Trade Show
  • Notes on New Berry Cultivars
  • Upcoming Meetings
November 2005
  • New Fact Sheets from Ohio State University Extension
  • Blueberry Website from Michigan State
  • High Tunnel Demonstration
  • Three New Pesticide Options for Berries
  • The Organic Way--Gray Mold on Raspberries and Cultural Management

Ohio State Factsheet 3085 and Ohio State Factsheet 3307

October 2005
  • New Fungicide for Potatoes, Tomatoes
  • Resistance to Neonicotiniod Insecticides in Colorado Potato Beetle Increasing
  • Selenium Protects Plants
  • Alternative Cover Crops for Fall and Winter Niches
  • Upcoming Meetings
August 2005
  • Yellow Shoulder on Tomato
  • Fall Weed Management Advice
  • Pumpkin and Winter Squash Harvest and Storage
  • Upcoming Meetings
July 2005
  • Cucurbit Downy Mildew Warning
  • Downy Mildew in Cucrubits: Occurrence of QoI Resistance in the USA and Impact on Managing Disease
  • Got Sweet Corn Worms???
  • Keep an Eye Out for Bramble Borers
  • Upcoming Meetings
June 2005
  • Spotlight on Raspberry Disease Management
  • Review of Recent Herbicide Additions/Changes for Vegetable Crops - Part II
  • Downy Mildew in Cucurbits: Occurrence of QoI Resistance in the USA and Impact on Managing Disease
  • Major Bacterial Diseases of Tomato: Bacterial Speck, Spot and Canker
  • Upcoming Meetings
May 2005
  • Review of Recent Herbicide Additions/Changes for Vegetable Crops - Part 1
  • Triazine-Resistant Lambsquarters Control in Sweet Corn
  • The Organic Way--Plant Families
  • Actara/Platinum for Strawberries and Bushberries
  • Nifty Frost Alert
Special Spring Edition 2005
  • Chemical Control of Tirazine Resistant Weeds in Sweet Corn
  • The Organic Way - Organic Methods for Blueberry Production
  • An Opportunity for Value-Added Grants for Growers
  • Attention Raspberry Growers!
  • Indar for Mummy Berry in PA for 2005
April 2005
  • New Pressure Treated Lumber: Things You Really Need to Know
  • Late Blight Prevention on Tomato Seedlings Grown in Greenhouse and High Tunnel Structures
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • 2004 Sweet Non-Bell Pepper Variety Trial
  • Berry Pesticide Tables
  • Summary and Recommendations for the Use of Colored Mulch in Vegetable Production
March 2005
  • Bug vs. Bug - Biological Control of Aphids in Greenhouse Vegetable Production
  • Where's the Darn Berry Guide?
  • Mildew Tolerant Pumpkin Variety Evaluations in Pennsylvania
  • Damping Off Management Using Biorational Fungicides
  • New Plasticulture Book
  • New Greenhouse IPM Publication from Penn State University

February 2005
  • Strawberry Cultivars for Matted-Row Production
  • Dispose of Your Ag Plastics for Cash
  • Tri-County Vegetable/Greenhouse Growers Meeting
  • Interpreting Soil Analyses
  • New Blueberry Publication from Michigan State University
  • Selling Your Produce to Restaurants
  • Preventative Disease Management for Highbush Blueberries
  • Beg vs. Bug - Identification of Whitefly Species in Greenhouse Vegetable Production

 

 
2004
Issue
Contents
November 2004
  • Highbush Blueberry Diseases
  • 2004 Sweet Onion Trial
  • Managing Diseases with Biofungicides
  • Upcoming Meetings
October 2004
  • That's a Berry Good Question: Strawberry Weed Control
  • Bug vs. Bug: Compatibility of Pesticides
  • Use of Compost and Manure in Small Fruit Production
  • Upcoming Meetings
September 2004
  • Phytophthora Fruit Rot in Pumpkin
  • Brown Marmorated Stink Bug: A New Pest That May Damage Fruits & Vegetables
  • Farmer Grower Grants Available
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • PA Berry Producer Statistics from the Census of Agriculture
  • Upcoming Meetings
August 2004
  • Tomato Disorders
  • Got Sweet Corn Worms?
  • Row Covers, Do They Work?
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Verticillium Wilt of Tomato and Eggplant
  • Upcoming Meeting
July 2004
  • Late Blight Warning
  • Downy Mildew in Cucurbits
  • Blueberry Scorch
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Cedar Meadow Farm, Cornell University and Haygrove Tunnels will Co-Host a Twilight Meeting
  • Bug vs. Bug - Garden Symphylans in High Tunnel Production
  • Thoughts on Sweet Corn Weed Control Problems - Plastic Mulch and Other Issues
June 2004
  • Squash Vine Borer
  • The Organic Way - Weed Management Strategies
  • Bug vs. Bug - Bumble Bee Pollination in Greenhouse Vegetable Crops
  • Rooting Strawberry "Tips" to Create Plugs for Raised-Bed Plasticulture Production
  • Strawberry Fruit Anthracnose in 2004
  • Pollination for Vegetables and Pesticide Use
April/May 2004
  • Check Black Raspberries for Winter Damage
  • Crop Diagnostics: What's Wrong With This Crop?
  • Finding Pesticide Labels…Fast
  • Bug vs. Bug - Shore Fly Control in Greenhouse Vegetable Production
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Nitrogen Fertilization of Established Blueberry Plantings
  • Pollinating Greenhouse Tomatoes
  • Blueberry Establishment
  • Get the HortReport Electronically
  • What Fungicide do I Choose for Disease Control in Strawberries?
  • Know Your Pest: Spider Mites
March 2004
  • Trends that Directly Impact Produce Marketing
  • Vegetable Transplants
  • Corn Rootworm in Sweet Corn
February 2004
  • New Vegetable Production Guide Available
  • Printed Resources from SARE
  • On-Farm Comparison of Fertility Treatments on Sweet Corn
  • 2004 Vegetable and Small Fruit Field Day
  • Vegetable Crop Nutrition
  • 8 Tips for Transitioning to Organic Production
  • Bug vs. Bug - Monitoring Insects on Sticky Traps
January 2004
  • Compatibility of Pesticides with Natural Enemies
  • 2002-03 Matted-Row Strawberry Cultivar Trial Notes
  • Herbicide Persistence
  • Chickweed Control in Strawberries

These are the Archived Editions of the Vegetable and Small Fruit Newsletter

 
2003
Issue Contents
November 2003
  • A New Tomato Disease in the Northeast
  • Variety Selection for 2004
  • New University of CA Book Offers Tips for Hiring, Managing Farm Labor
  • Farmer/Grower Grants from Northeast-SARE
  • Spacing for Vegetable Crops Grown on Plasticulture
  • Check Your Pesticide Recertification Credit Status ON-LINE
  • Bug vs. Bug -- Greenhouse Sanitation Procedures are Necessary for a Successful IPM Program
  • Bug vs. Bug -- Controlling Brown Soft Scale in Greenhouse Crops
  • Bug vs. Bug -- Is It a Parasitoid or Predator?
  • Pristine Label for Berries
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • The Strawberry Plant
  • Potato Bruising
August 2003
  • Late Blight Alert
  • Late Blight Control Program Considerations for Tomatoes
  • Pumpkin Variety Trial Meeting at SE Research Center
  • Watch Out for Stinkbugs on Tomatoes
  • Buckwheat As A Summer Cover Crop
  • Pumpkins: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You!
  • New Pumpkin Guide
  • Bug vs. Bug - Biological Insecticides as Part of an IPM Program
  • Sampling Strawberry Leaves for Nutrient Analysis
  • Blueberry Mulching
  • Fungicide Resistance Management: Potatoes and Blights
July 2003
  • A Long Newsletter this Month
  • Changes to the Warrior Label
  • Nutrient Management in 2003
  • High Tunnel Production Manual Available
  • Accessing the Sweet Corn Webpage
  • Some Early-Season Above-Ground Pests
  • Early Season Soil Pests
  • Bug vs. Bug - Caterpillar Control in Greenhouse Vegetables
  • Bug vs. Bug - Entomopathogenic Nematodes as Part of an Integrated Pest Management Program
  • Stinger for Strawberries
  • Emergency Exemption for Topsin M on Blueberries
  • The Dangers of Summer
  • June Disease Reminders for Commercial Producers in PA in 2003
  • Smart Pricing Strategies
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • New Developments in Small Fruit Fungicides
  • PSU Small Fruit Website On-Line
  • Brown Rot/Bacterial Wilt: A Threat that Needs to be Monitored
  • Fungicide Resistance Management: Potatoes and Blights
Jan-Feb 2003
  • Newsletter Updates Mailed
  • New Production Guide Available
  • Sweet Corn Meeting in York
  • Information Being Collected for Count Farm Markets/Roadside Stands
  • Use of Plasticulture for the Production of Melons
  • Thirsty Sweet Corn
  • Report: PA Statewide Specialty Cut Flower Evaluation: Sunflowers 2002
  • Bug vs. Bug - Controlling Mealybugs with Natural Enemies
  • Bug vs. Bug - Insect Growth Regulators - An Important Tool for an IPM Program
  • Pesticide Groups for Berries
  • Sinbar for First-Year Strawberry Plantings
  • That's a Berry Good Question!!!
  • Pruning Brambles and Blueberries
  • Powdery Scab of Potato
 
2002
Issue Contents
December 2002
  • Lancaster County Extension Annual Meeting
  • Managing a Hispanic Workforce Conference
  • Value-Added Processing Grant Workshop
  • Tomato Pith Necrosis
  • Comments on Soil Tests and Soil Testing
  • Remove Asparagus Fern
  • Consumer Evaluation of Three Edamame Cultivars
  • Wee Control: Methods and Practices
  • Bug vs. Bug - Plant Elicitors--A New Tool for IPM
  • Cabrio for Berry Crops
  • 2003 Mid-Atlantic Winter Brambles Conference
  • Potato Mop-Top Virus (PMTV)
November 2002
  • Evaluating Your Pumpkin Crop
  • Nitrogen Fertilization of Tomato
  • Nonchemical Weed Control in Cabbage
  • Bug vs. Bug - Managing Plant Diseases with Biofungicides
  • 2003 Mid-Atlantic Winter Brambles Conference
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Edamame Cultivar Trial
  • Results are In! Ag Progress Day Survey Participants Eat Ethnic Produce
  • Disease Report - Potato Wart
October 2002
  • Responding to the West Nile Virus
  • Organic Matter Application - Can You Apply Too Much?
  • Yellow Shoulder on Tomato
  • Worried About Drought? Manage Your Production Risk with Crop Insurance
  • Bug vs. Bug - Compatibility of Pesticides with Natural Enemies
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Reminder - Fall Applications of Spartan 4F For Strawberries
  • Potato Storage Management - Cooling Period
  • Production and Marketing of Ethnic Crops
September 2002
  • Fall Weed Management Advice
  • Johnsongrass Management
  • 2002 Heirloom Tomato Variety Trial, Rock Springs, PA
  • Bug vs. Bug - Crop Scouting
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Figuring Your Potato Yields
  • 2002 Disease Management During Harvest and Storage
August 2002
  • Late Blight Alert
  • Honeybees and the Heat
  • Bacterial Wilt on Pumpkins
  • Status Report of Worm Pests of Sweet Corn
  • August Disease Reminders for Commercial Producers
  • Bug vs. Bug - Two-Spotted Spider Mite
  • Elevate for Gray Mold Control in Caneberries and Bushberries
  • The Ground Hog
  • The Evolving Pesticide Industry
July 2002
  • Late Blight Alert
  • Tomato Spotted Wilt Nearby
  • Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
  • Sweet Corn Meeting
  • Retail Farm Market Tour
  • Raised-Bed Strawberry Production: Preplant Preparation
  • Problems from the Field
  • Tour of Vegetable Research in Centre County
  • Bug vs. Bug - Garden Symphylans in High Tunnel Production
  • 2002 Vegetable and Fruit Field Day Set for August 19
  • Small Fruit Research Projects at PSU
  • Anthracnose on Strawberries
  • Strawberry Anthracnose
  • Section 18 Approved for Use of Spartan 4F Strawberries in PA

June 2002
  • Weed Control in Pumpkins With Herbicides
  • Hollow Heart Of Watermelon
  • High Tunnel Workshop to be Held on July 19th
  • Crop Yields Grown on Raised Beds with Plastic Mulch and Drip Irrigation
  • Early Season Vegetable Pests
  • Bug vs. Bug - Shore Fly Control in Greenhouse Vegetable Production
  • Section 18 for Topsin M on Blueberries
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Dates of Future High Tunnel Workshops
May 2002
  • Strawberry Twilight Meeting in Maryland
  • Sandea - A New Herbicide for 2002
  • More on Sandea
  • Crop Yields Grown on Raised Beds with Plastic Mulch and Drip Irrigation
  • Early Season Vegetable Pests
  • Bug vs. Bug - Shore Fly Control in Greenhouse Vegetable Production
  • Section 18 for Topsin M on Blueberries
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Dates of Future High Tunnel Workshops
April 2002
  • Some Pre-Season Disease Reminders
  • Managing Used Agricultural Plastics
  • Dual Magnum Section 18 for Pennsylvania in 2002
  • Sources of Plastic Mulch
  • Bug vs. Bug - Monitoring Insects On Sticky Traps
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
  • Another Miticide for Strawberries
  • Commercial Berry Production Guide Update
  • Penn State High Tunnel Research and Education Facility to Hold Seasonal Workshops in 2002
March 2002
  • New Mount Joy Market Opportunity
  • Information Being Collected for County Farm Markets/Roadside Stands
  • Strawberry Frost Protection by Sprinkling
  • Back to the Basics: Root Rot Control in Peas, Lima Beans, and Snap Beans
  • Compliance Inspections for Worker Protection Standard
  • Bug vs. Bug - Biological Control of Western Flower Thrips with the Pirate Bug, Orius insidiosus
  • Cucumber Beetle Control
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
February 2002
  • New Commercial Vegetable Production Guides Available
  • Converting Pesticide Rates into Practical Amounts
  • Use of Dual Magnum in Vegetable Production
  • A PSU Fall Armyworm Pheromone Lure
  • The Vegetable Industry of Pennsylvania
  • Bug vs. Bug - Biological Control of Western Flower Thrips with the Predatory Mite Neoseilus (Amblyseius) cucumeris
  • New Pesticides for Small Fruit
  • That's a Berry Good Question!
January 2002
  • Start Now for Insect and Disease Management in Vegetable Transplants
  • Upcoming Meetings of Note
  • Vegetable Varieties
  • Introducing Elsa Sanchez
  • New Website for the Center for Plasticulture
  • Bug vs. Bug - Biological Control of Western Flower Thrips
  • That's a Berry Good Question!

 

 

 


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