Phenology This week at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station (WMARS) in Verona, WI, cultivars are at various stages of setting and developing berries, ranging […]

Japanese beetles have barely started to emerge in Wisconsin and they have become worrisome for apple growers in the last couple years. Japanese beetles are […]

In 2021, the PDDC continues with limited hours and limited sample processing capacity due to COVID-19.  Click here for the PDDC’s current submission policy.  The […]

The Wisconsin Apple Growers Association in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin Extension is holding the annual Apple Field Day, Thursday, July 8, 2021. The Field […]

The climate of the upper Midwest is variable and at times, extreme. Fruit growers find themselves managing the effects of excess rainfall one season and […]

I received last week some pictures of these very interesting larvae within their casing made of grass blades and twigs (Figs. 1 and 2). The […]

The first spotted-wing drosophila (SWD; Fig 1) was collected June 9th in one of our monitoring trap serviced by Hanna McIntosh for our mulch study.  […]

Black stem borer (BSB), Xylosandrus germanus, also known as the alnus ambrosia beetle, is an invasive beetle from Asia (primarily Japan, Korea, Vietnam, China, and […]

Phenology This week at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station (WMARS) in Verona, WI, all cultivars are currently flowering (Table 1). The majority of shoots […]

Download the original PDF here Check out the Drought Early Warning for Specialty Crop Producers project page here Spring/SummerDrought conditions in the spring may make […]