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Update from the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station
Posted on June 7, 2022Well it’s been a cold last couple of weeks with not a lot of plant movement. What a difference from last year when I was […]
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Genetic Fingerprinting at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station: Part 2
Posted onAfter the cultivars present in each bed at the newly-dedicated Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station were fingerprinted and named (see CCMJ 35.2), Dr. Zalapa’s lab was […]
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Grower Update: Vilas 51
Posted onWelp, she’s been a chilly start to the growing season! Between running long nights of frost, rain days and the gosh darn hurricane force winds […]
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Vegetative Side Shoots
Posted on June 6, 2022Following spring hailstorms, many growers throughout Wisconsin are observing vegetative side-shoots on uprights. In many cases the uprights that exhibit later shoots also have an […]
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Leafhoppers Are Starting To Show Up
Posted onIn the last couple of weeks, we have detected, at several marshes, the presence of very small leafhopper nymphs that are most likely blunt nosed […]
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Grower Update: Flying Dollar Cranberry
Posted onWell 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 […]
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Neopestalotiopsis, an Emerging Concern in Strawberry Production
Posted on June 2, 2022This article was initially run in the Wisconsin Fruit Newsletter in April 2021. After a particularly hot, humid, and rainy month of May in Wisconsin, […]
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Notes From the Field: A Grower’s Perspective – Steve Louis Chat #4
Posted onHello 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 […]
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UW-Madison/Extension Insect Diagnostic Lab Update June 2, 2022
Posted onCaseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL) has greatly increased over the last two weeks and is now at levels of a typical busy […]
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PARS Phenology Report June 2, 2022
Posted onMarquette 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 […]