Cranberry growers are always interested in diversifying their pest management strategies to reduce inputs, increase sustainability, and improve environmental stewardship of the land. One Integrated […]

As of today we are about 50% in blossom at the station and with great weather in the forecast hopefully setting fruit by the weekend. […]

We are off to the races up north! Things have moved along quickly as they usually do. I believe all planting is done and all […]

Hello everybody! Things are really ramping up here in the central Wisconsin cranberry crop. We have the pollinators working hard on the beds both bumblebee […]

Mating disruption (MD): pheromone-based tool where dispensers of artificial sex pheromones from (usually) females are placed in orchard and reduces the probability of males finding […]

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 […]

While walking through your vineyard, you might notice yellow spotting on leaves (Figure 1) and we’ve begun to see it in the vineyards at 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 […]

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has been very high with over 200 diagnostic requests at the lab over the last two weeks.  […]

Zestar is approaching 12mm. Honeycrisp and Cortland are around 10mm. Marquette and Itasca are between 10-14” of growth. Montmorency are out of the shuck and […]