Every year we sample berries and track ripening levels by measuring Brix, TA, and ph to determine optimum harvest time. Below are graphs showing the […]

Hello Wisconsin Fruit News subscribers, and welcome back to Notes from The Field: A Grower’s Perspective. This week Steve Louis (Oakwood Fruit Farm) and I […]

Anthracnose is an important disease of strawberries and has started to show up in our organic day-neutral strawberries at the West Madison Ag. Research Station. […]

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has been high, but decreased slightly over the last two weeks.  A summary of recent fruit crop […]

Grapes Variety Brix pH TA Marquette 18.2 2.34 36.44g/L Apples Variety Seed Color Starch Brix Pioneer McIntosh light brown tips 1.8 10.8 Mollie’s Delicious dark […]

In a long-term tillage research project in Kansas, a Palmer amaranth population was identified that was resistant to six herbicide sites of action in individual […]

In 2022, the PDDC continues to provide diagnoses through examination of digital photographs, as well as physical samples.  Click here for the PDDC’s current submission […]

Hello everyone, what a wonderful time we all had at the summer show this year! Hats off to all those who worked so hard to […]

Hope everyone that made it to the cranberry field days enjoyed their time at the research station. At this point I am getting things ready […]

This time of year we are done with our fertilizer and we have battled the bugs as much as we can. Flea beetle continues to […]