Tomato pith necrosis May 31, 2023 - From Issue: 720 By: Dan Egel Read More Tomato pith necrosis is a bacterial disease of tomatoes that occurs sporadically, usually in greenhouses or high tunnels. While this disease can kill or at least ruin marketable yield on[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Tomato Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
Melon Disease Forecaster 2024 May 2, 2023 - From Issue: 718 Read More This article was originally written by Dan Egel, who retired from Purdue. Please contact the PPDL for more information. MELCAST is a weather-based disease-forecasting program that helps growers schedule[Read More…] Article Categories: Cucurbits Article Tags: Melcast Plant Disease Management How to get Fungicide Information for Vegetables April 18, 2023 - From Issue: 717 By: Dan Egel Read More Vegetable growers will begin thinking about fungicide applications in a few weeks. Many growers will have already purchased fungicides for the 2023 season. Where can Indiana vegetable growers go for[Read More…] Article Tags: Fungicide Herbicide Insecticide Midwest Vegetable Production Guide Ethylene Damage on Tomato Plants April 4, 2023 - From Issues: 716 / 733 By: Dan Egel Read More Almost every year, I have a greenhouse tomato grower or two call me about tomato plants that are distorted and don’t seem to be growing right. The problem often turns[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Tomato Article Tags: Ethylene Greenhouses & High Tunnels Heating Propagation Seedling Production Ventilation Anthracnose Management in Peppers – the Old and the New March 14, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Dan Egel Read More A new strain of the disease anthracnose of pepper has been detected in South Carolina and Ontario, Canada. Although this disease has not been found in Indiana, the article reprinted[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Peppers Article Tags: Plant Disease Management Midwest Vegetable Production Guide 2023 December 2, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel Read More Hard copies of the Midwest Vegetable Production Guide (ID-56) are available. This annually revised guide is a summary of currently suggested fertility, cultural, and pest management techniques and tools for[Read More…] Specialty Crops Applicator Program in Washington County on December 1, 2022 October 20, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel There will a Specialty Crops Applicator Program on Thursday, December 1, 2022 from 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time at the Washington County Government Building, 806 Martinsburg Road, Salem, IN.[Read More…] Article Tags: Events Southwest Melon and Vegetable Growers Winter Technical Meeting – Important Discussion about Future of SWIM October 20, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel and Wenjing Guan The dinner meeting will take place on November 29, 2022. We will discuss the future of the Southwest Melon and Vegetable Growers Association and have a presentation about the 2022[Read More…] Article Tags: Events Southwest Melon and Vegetable Growers Association Annual Meeting will be January 20, 2023 October 20, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel and Wenjing Guan The Southwest Melon and Vegetable Grower Association will have their Annual meeting in association with the Illiana Watermelon Association (IWA) on January 20, 2023 in French Lick, IN. Note that[Read More…] Article Tags: Events EPA Proposal to Cancel all uses of PCNB Fungicides September 23, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel PCNB fungicides include Blocker 4F® and 10G®. PCNB is an acronym for the chemical pentachloronitrobenzene. In Indiana, PCNB fungicides are used for bottom rot, club root, and wirestem in brassica[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Plant Disease Management ‹ Previous12 (current) 3456Next ›Last »Page 2 of 27
How to get Fungicide Information for Vegetables April 18, 2023 - From Issue: 717 By: Dan Egel Read More Vegetable growers will begin thinking about fungicide applications in a few weeks. Many growers will have already purchased fungicides for the 2023 season. Where can Indiana vegetable growers go for[Read More…] Article Tags: Fungicide Herbicide Insecticide Midwest Vegetable Production Guide
Ethylene Damage on Tomato Plants April 4, 2023 - From Issues: 716 / 733 By: Dan Egel Read More Almost every year, I have a greenhouse tomato grower or two call me about tomato plants that are distorted and don’t seem to be growing right. The problem often turns[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Tomato Article Tags: Ethylene Greenhouses & High Tunnels Heating Propagation Seedling Production Ventilation
Anthracnose Management in Peppers – the Old and the New March 14, 2023 - From Issue: 715 By: Dan Egel Read More A new strain of the disease anthracnose of pepper has been detected in South Carolina and Ontario, Canada. Although this disease has not been found in Indiana, the article reprinted[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Peppers Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
Midwest Vegetable Production Guide 2023 December 2, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel Read More Hard copies of the Midwest Vegetable Production Guide (ID-56) are available. This annually revised guide is a summary of currently suggested fertility, cultural, and pest management techniques and tools for[Read More…]
Specialty Crops Applicator Program in Washington County on December 1, 2022 October 20, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel There will a Specialty Crops Applicator Program on Thursday, December 1, 2022 from 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time at the Washington County Government Building, 806 Martinsburg Road, Salem, IN.[Read More…] Article Tags: Events
Southwest Melon and Vegetable Growers Winter Technical Meeting – Important Discussion about Future of SWIM October 20, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel and Wenjing Guan The dinner meeting will take place on November 29, 2022. We will discuss the future of the Southwest Melon and Vegetable Growers Association and have a presentation about the 2022[Read More…] Article Tags: Events
Southwest Melon and Vegetable Growers Association Annual Meeting will be January 20, 2023 October 20, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel and Wenjing Guan The Southwest Melon and Vegetable Grower Association will have their Annual meeting in association with the Illiana Watermelon Association (IWA) on January 20, 2023 in French Lick, IN. Note that[Read More…] Article Tags: Events
EPA Proposal to Cancel all uses of PCNB Fungicides September 23, 2022 - From Issue: 713 By: Dan Egel PCNB fungicides include Blocker 4F® and 10G®. PCNB is an acronym for the chemical pentachloronitrobenzene. In Indiana, PCNB fungicides are used for bottom rot, club root, and wirestem in brassica[Read More…] Article Categories: Vegetable Crops – General Article Tags: Plant Disease Management
