Food Safety Considerations for Flooded Fields May 4, 2017 - From Issue: 627 By: Scott Monroe and Amanda J Deering Read More Recent heavy rains across much of the state have resulted in widespread ponding and flooding in fields. This creates multiple considerations for those growing produce for fresh consumption. Flooding and[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Food Safety
Black Cutworm April 26, 2017 - From Issue: 626 By: Rick Foster Read More We have had substantial black cutworm moth (Figure 1.) catches in our pheromone traps. Black cutworm moths typically lay their eggs on winter annual weeds growing in un-tilled fields. When[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Insect and Mite Management
Upcoming Events April 26, 2017 - From Issue: 626 By: Wenjing Guan Read More Southwest Purdue Ag Center Field Day Save the date June 29 for Southwest Purdue Ag Center Field Day Beginning Farmer Tours and Workshops Join Purdue’s beginning farmer team for farm[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Events
Seedless Fruit Production April 26, 2017 - From Issue: 626 By: Wenjing Guan Read More A plant is considered to be seedless if it is able to produce a fruit without or contain a much-reduced number of seeds, or in some cases, only present traces[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Crop Culture Varieties
Pheromones and Pheromone Traps April 13, 2017 - From Issue: 625 By: Rick Foster One way insects communicate with individuals of the same species is with pheromones. Pheromones are volatile chemicals released by an insect that usually can be detected only by individuals of[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Insect and Mite Management
Indiana Grown April 12, 2017 - From Issue: 625 By: Heather Tallman Read More Indiana Grown is an initiative through the Indiana State Department of agriculture that supports products made by Hoosiers for Hoosiers. If you grow, raise, package or produce a product in[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General
Garden Sprayer vs Backpack Sprayer March 15, 2017 - From Issue: 624 By: Dan Egel Read More The use of tractor drawn pesticide sprayers is not practical for many smaller growers. Two alternatives are garden-sprayers or backpack sprayers. I will argue here that garden-sprayers are not suited[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
Backpack Sprayer Use March 15, 2017 - From Issue: 624 By: Dan Egel Small vegetable growers may find pesticide applications with a tractor driven sprayers impractical. Such growers may turn to hand sprayers. In a separate article, I argued that garden sprayers are[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Pests and Pest Management – General
Soil Tests March 15, 2017 - From Issue: 624 By: Wenjing Guan Read More We can never emphasize too much the importance of conducting soil tests. Ideally, soil test should be conducted on a yearly basis. The reason soil testing is so important is[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Soil Fertility and Fertilizers
High Tunnel Screening for Insect Pest Management March 15, 2017 - From Issue: 624 By: Laura Ingwell Read More Screening can be an effective measure to exclude unwanted pests from colonizing your crops. In high tunnels, one of the biggest challenges to successfully implementing exclusion screening is managing the[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Greenhouses & High Tunnels Insect and Mite Management
