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UW-Madison/Extension Insect Diagnostic Lab Update July 22, 2021
Posted on July 22, 2021Caseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab has been high over the last two weeks. A summary of recent fruit crop insects reported to the […]
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Apple Maggot Insecticides
Posted onApple maggots started emerging in Wisconsin orchards and will continue to do so for the next several weeks. Numbers are increasing and growers should consider […]
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Japanese Beetles Increase at West Madison Ag Research Station
Posted onJapanese beetle adults (Figure 1; JB) continue to be present at the West Madison Ag Research Station (WMARS) vineyards. The numbers have not been really […]
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Grape Cultivar Developmental Stages: July 21, 2021
Posted on July 21, 2021Phenology As of July 20 at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station (WMARS) in Verona, WI, the cultivar Itasca has reached veraison (E-L* Stage 35), […]
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Reviewing Critical Cranberry Irrigation Thresholds
Posted on July 20, 2021Dr. Amaya Atucha’s presentation at July’s Virtual Cranberry Brown Bag addressed soil water content and irrigation information during cranberry fruit set, development, and ripening. She […]
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Update from the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station
Posted onThe warm sunny days have really sized the fruit here at the station. I was fortunate enough to not get all the heavy rain a […]
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Central Wisconsin Cranberry Grower Update
Posted onSparganothsis fruitworm are webbing and cranberry fruitworm are moving into their 2nd and 3rd berries. We started sweeping flea beetle last week (7/12), and this […]
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WiBee Cranberry 2021 Surveys: Preliminary Numbers
Posted on July 19, 2021Thank you very much to everyone who sent in surveys this year. We had a slow start, and we heard reports that pollinators were also […]
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Red-Headed Flea Beetle Showing Up at Marshes
Posted onRed-headed flea beetle (aka cranberry flea beetle; Systena frontalis) adults (Fig 1) started showing up at some marshes in the second week of July. It […]
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Exploring Soil Health in Cranberries
Posted onWhen mankind began farming, soil physics was the most observable realm, and so soil physics was where we first developed a coherent theory. In the […]