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
MW Vegetable Guide Updates March 15, 2017 - From Issue: 624 By: Dan Egel The following updates have been made to the Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers 2017 (ID-56) since it was published in December. These updates have been made to the[Read More…]
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
Introducing PIFF: The Purdue Initiative for Family Firms March 15, 2017 - From Issue: 624 By: Maria Marshall and Renee Wiatt Read More The Purdue Initiative for Family Firms (PIFF) is a new initiative in Purdue’s College of Agriculture, housed in the Department of Agricultural Economics. PIFF is an integrated research, outreach, and[Read More…] Article Tags: General Information
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
The TOMI Project Aims to Help Tomato Growers Better Manage Foliar Diseases March 15, 2017 - From Issue: 624 By: Lori Hoagland Effectively managing foliar diseases including late blight (LB), early blight (EB), and Septoria leaf spot (SLS), is one of the biggest challenges facing organic tomato growers. New, resistant hybrid varieties[Read More…] Article Categories: Solanaceous Crops Tomato Article Tags: Crop Culture
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
