January 2008: [Link to pdf]

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Pumpkin Variety Trial Results – 2007
4. Grafting Watermelons – An Old Technique with a New Application
5. Laudis and Define Now Registered for Sweet Corn
6. Diagnosis, Visual Assessment and Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes of Vegetables and Small Fruit in the Northeast
7. Radiant SC: New Insecticide
8. Benchmark Survey is about to Start
9. Compliance Assistance Visits and the Worker Protection Standard
10. OMRI Removes Products from List
11. The Convention that Berry Growers Won’t Want to Miss
12. Calculating How Much Compost to Apply to Meet Nitrogen Needs of Vegetables
13. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Growing Taro in a Pennsylvania High Tunnel
4. Availability of the Revised NRAES Bramble Production Guide
5. Calculating How Much Compost to Apply to Meet Nitrogen Needs of Vegetables: Another Method
6. 2008 Mid-Atlantic Berry Guide Now Available
7. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Micronutrients and Growing Great Tomatoes
4. Thinking of Using Drip Irrigation this Season?
5. Know Your Enemy: Large Crabgrass
6. Answers to 10 Questions that Growers Frequently Ask Beekeepers
7. New SARE Professional Development Program for Extension, NRCS, Non-Profit, and Anyone Who Works Directly with Farmers
8. Calculating how much Sodium Nitrate (Chilean Nitrate) can be Applied on Organic Farms
9. Function of Plant Growth Regulators (PGR’s) in Plants
10. 2008 Vegetable and Small Fruit Field Day
11. While You’re Pruning Your Raspberries and Blackberries…
12. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. So You Grow Your Own Vegetable Plants
4. On-Farm Food Safety – An Emerging Issue for Pennsylvania Growers
5. Biological Fungicides and Bactericides; Using Fungi and Bacteria for Disease Management
6. Know Your Enemy: Common Cocklebur
7. Lettuce Production in High Tunnels
8. Growing Greens
9. That’s a Berry Good Question!!!
10. Mid-Atlantic Berry Guide on Web
11. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Using Visual Cues to Increase Sales: Farm Market Marketing at the Next Level
4. Know Your Enemy: Yellow Nutsedge
5. Day-Neutral Strawberry Production Workshops
6. All I hear is Ethanol and Biodiesel, but what about Recycling of Plastics and Recovery of the Energy Stored in Used Plastics?
7. New Categories on Penn State’s Agricultural Analytical Laboratory Soil Test Reports
8. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Blueberry Anthracnose (Ripe Rot) - A Problem in 2008?
4. Know Your Enemy: Common Purslane
5. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Got Sweet Corn Worms???
4. Dr. Beth Gugino Hired as Vegetable Crop Pathologist
5. Urban Agriculture – The New Frontier Bramble Borers
6. New Handbook on Using Buckwheat as a Cover Crop Available
7. Penn State and Partners Bring New Disease Management Tool to Nepal
8. Managing Downy Mildew of Cucurbits
9. Disease & Insect Management for Small Fruits & Brambles Field Day
10. Pestwatch Tracking High Earworm Counts Early in 2008
11. Know Your Enemy: Pigweeds
12. Vegetable and Small Fruit Growers’ Field Day at the Penn State Southeast Research and Extension Center
13. 1-800 Number Kicks Off Fifteenth Season in Support of IPM
14. 2008 Vegetable and Small Fruit Field Day at Rock Springs, PA is July 23
15. Potato Researchers from US/World to Meet in Buffalo
16. Periodical Cicada Damage on Blueberries
17. Successful Control of Powdery Mildew in Cucurbit Crops Challenged by Evolving Pathogen
18. Consumers Step up to Help Honey Bees
19. Strawberry Growers Announce Summer Tour in Ohio
20. You Are Part of the Solution – Fill Out Your Crop Reporting Surveys
21. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Ensuring the Future of Pollination via Youth
4. That's a Berry Good Question!!
5. Fungicide Sensitivity Assay Provides Information to Guide Cucurbit Powdery Mildew Management in PA in 2008
6. Plant & Pest Advisory: Vegetable Alert!
7. Staking Peppers in Pennsylvania: Is it Worth the Effort?
8. It's a Business
9. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Day-Neutral Strawberry Production Events
4. Statewide Cultivar Trials: Bell Peppers
5. Diagnosis, Visual Assessment and Management of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes of Vegetables and Small Fruit in the Northeast
6. Crop Removal of Nutrient Estimate
7. Corn Earworm: Results of Pyrethroid Resistance Tests from Pennsylvania
8. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Fall Soil Testing - Basic but More Important than Ever
2. Changing Recommendations Accompanying Soil Test Results for a Different Crop
3. Winter Annual Weeds in Strawberries
4. Food Safety: Its Effect on Marketing
5. Migratory Beekeeping - Second Thoughts...
6. Reminder - Day Neutral Strawberry Workshop Oct. 16th at Rock Springs
7. Biodegradable Plastic Mulch and Paper Mulch: Where Do We Stand!
8. That's a Berry Good Question!!!
9. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Schedule for Articles
2. Quote for Thought from Pete Ferretti
3. Romaine Lettuce Trial
4. Putnam Scale on Blueberries
5. What is the Best Way to Put Micronutrients into Plants?
6. Row Covers
7. Changes to the Insect Control Sections of the 2009 Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations Guide
8. Upcoming Meetings

In This Issue:

1. Row Covers - Do They Work?
2. North American Strawberry Growers Association Meeting
3. Websites for Berry Producers, and More
4. Recycling and Recovery of Energy Stored in Used Plastics
5. Schedule for articles
6. Upcoming Meetings