A new research project conducted by graduate student Jarret Miles-Kroening is looking at growing day-neutral organic strawberries in the Midwest. A major limitation growers face […]

The first spotted-wing drosophila (SWD; Fig 1) was collected June 17th in one of our monitoring trap serviced by Hanna McIntosh for our raspberry mulch […]

Hello Wisconsin Fruit News subscribers, and welcome back to Notes from The Field: A Grower’s Perspective. This week I had the opportunity to visit Steve […]

Over the last couple of years new research on bitter pit has shed light on this very complex issue. We used to think of bitter […]

Zestar is at about 30mm. Cortland and Honeycrisp are both at about 20mm with good fruit set. Marquette is at post bloom and approaching buckshot. […]

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has been high over the last two weeks.  A summary of recent fruit crop insects reported to […]

The first Japanese beetle adults (Figure 1; JB) were found as part of our research at a vineyard near Dane county. Emergence has just begun […]

There’s no new information in this article. Cranberry growers today calculate % in bloom following the same time-tested calculation we’ve been using for generations. Because […]

Hello everyone, I am Stephanie Plaster the new Extension Farm Management Outreach Specialist.  The Farm Management Outreach Specialist position is a new, exciting position in […]

This is our third year of collecting data with the WiBee app! Thank you to all of the growers and scouts who have participated so […]