Well we have had our first couple of applications with the boom already. It’s hard to find some dry weather between all these rain days […]

This article was initially run in the Wisconsin Fruit Newsletter in April 2021. After a particularly hot, humid, and rainy month of May in Wisconsin, […]

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

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has greatly increased over the last two weeks and is now at levels of a typical busy […]

Marquette and Itasca grapes are both at about 3-5” of growth. Zestar is entering post bloom while McIntosh, Honeycrisp, and Cortland are all just exiting […]

The first galls caused by grape phylloxera (GP; Figure 1) were observed this week at the WMARS and it is recommended to start scouting for […]

Eastern flower thrips (ETF; Fig 1) have been reported at one of our strawberry research sites in Dane county. As mentioned in our last issue […]

Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has increased over the last two weeks and is expected to increase further over the next two […]

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

Setting up monitoring traps and starting sampling/sweeping protocols for tarnished plant bug (TPB; Fig 1), Eastern flower thrips (ETF; Fig 2) and two-spotted spider mites […]