Organic Transplant Production Project – Feedback Requested for Report to Funding Agency April 21, 2021 - From Issue: 687 By: Liz Maynard Read More Did you read an article or hear one of the presentations from Purdue about organic transplant production in the last couple of years? Let us know if they were helpful[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Organic Production Survey Transplant Production
Early Season Scouting April 21, 2021 - From Issue: 687 By: Laura Ingwell Read More The time has arrived to start implementing our scouting programs for monitoring and early detection, an integral part of your integrated pest management plan. In high tunnels or other protected[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Insect and Mite Management
Vegetable Samples for the SW Purdue Ag Center April 21, 2021 - From Issue: 687 By: Dan Egel and Wenjing Guan Last year at about this time, we announced that the Southwest Purdue Ag Center (SWPAC) would be closed to visitors due to concerns about the pandemic. At this time, SWPAC[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
Periodical Cicadas are Coming, but Your Vegetables are Safe! April 21, 2021 - From Issue: 687 By: Elizabeth Long Read More A natural wonder will occur in 15 states this year: the emergence of the Brood X, 17-year periodical cicadas! Also known as “17-year or 13-year locusts” the last mass emergence[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Insect and Mite Management
Frost and Freeze Warning April 19, 2021 - From Issue: 687 By: Wenjing Guan, Liz Maynard, Peter Hirst and Bruce Bordelon Read More There is a frost and freeze warning for 4/20, 4/21, 4/22. Vegetable growers should be prepared to take protective actions on early-planted warm-season vegetables (tomato, cucumber, pepper, summer squash, bean[Read More…] Article Categories: Strawberry Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Climate and Weather Crop Culture
April Showers or Lingering Drought? April 8, 2021 - From Issue: 686 By: Beth Hall Read More March wrapped up as one of Indiana’s wettest (44th wettest out of 126 years) and warmest (16th warmest). It was marked by unusually warm days and then cool days. Was[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Climate and Weather
CFAP 2 – USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 USDA is establishing new programs and efforts to bring financial assistance to farmers, ranchers and producers who felt the impact of COVID-19 market disruptions. The new initiative—USDA Pandemic Assistance for[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Announcement A Free Course to Teach Farmers with On-site Visitors to Manage Risk April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 By: Wenjing Guan Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is offering the free online course “Risk Management Education for Farmers with On-Farm Visitors”. Producers will learn practical management techniques to enhance the safety[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Events Clean Sweep 2021 April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 WHAT: An Indiana Pesticide Clean Sweep Project designed to collect and dispose of suspended, canceled, banned, unusable, opened, unopened or just unwanted pesticides (weed killers, insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, miticides, etc.)[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Announcement IPM Videos in Spanish from the Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 By: Liz Maynard Three new vegetable IPM videos in Spanish are available on Youtube. They were made by a team led by Natalie Hoidal, Extension Educator at Univ. of Minnesota. Búsqueda de problemas[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Announcement « First‹ Previous2728293031 (current) 32333435Next ›Last »Page 31 of 58
A Free Course to Teach Farmers with On-site Visitors to Manage Risk April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 By: Wenjing Guan Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is offering the free online course “Risk Management Education for Farmers with On-Farm Visitors”. Producers will learn practical management techniques to enhance the safety[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Events
Clean Sweep 2021 April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 WHAT: An Indiana Pesticide Clean Sweep Project designed to collect and dispose of suspended, canceled, banned, unusable, opened, unopened or just unwanted pesticides (weed killers, insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, miticides, etc.)[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Announcement IPM Videos in Spanish from the Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 By: Liz Maynard Three new vegetable IPM videos in Spanish are available on Youtube. They were made by a team led by Natalie Hoidal, Extension Educator at Univ. of Minnesota. Búsqueda de problemas[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Announcement « First‹ Previous2728293031 (current) 32333435Next ›Last »Page 31 of 58
IPM Videos in Spanish from the Great Lakes Vegetable Working Group April 7, 2021 - From Issue: 686 By: Liz Maynard Three new vegetable IPM videos in Spanish are available on Youtube. They were made by a team led by Natalie Hoidal, Extension Educator at Univ. of Minnesota. Búsqueda de problemas[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Announcement
