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What About Those Late-Season Grasses?
Posted on August 17, 2020The dog days of summer have arrived, accompanied by several grower questions about late-season grass weeds poking through the cranberry canopy. Here are a couple […]
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Grower Update: Flying Dollar Cranberry
Posted onWe’ve been busy on the marsh in between dodging hail and applying slight corrections to our fertilizer program. It’s been a little crazy. Of course, […]
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UW-Madison/Extension Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (PDDC) Update August 14, 2020
Posted on August 14, 2020The PDDC is now once again accepting physical samples for diagnosis, but due to COVID-19, only with limited hours and limited sample processing capacity. Click […]
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UW-Madison/Extension Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (PDDC) Update August 7, 2020
Posted on August 7, 2020The PDDC is now once again accepting physical samples for diagnosis, but due to COVID-19, only with limited hours and limited sample processing capacity. Click […]
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Grape Cultivar Developmental Stages: August 5, 2020
Posted on August 6, 2020Phenology At the West Madison Agricultural Research Station (WMARS) in Madison, WI, as of August 5, all cultivars, except Petite Pearl, have reached veraison, shoot […]
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A Fun Way to Help Manage Spotted-Wing Drosophila: Hummingbirds!
Posted onA recent study conducted by J. Carroll, C. Weber, and G. Loeb at Cornell University assessed the impact of hummingbirds on managing spotted-wing drosophila (SWD, […]
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Grape Scouting Report and Preparing for Harvest
Posted onAs you may expect, Japanese beetle adults (Figure 1; JB) continue to be present at the West Madison Ag Research Station (WMARS) vineyards. So far […]
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Preparing for Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
Posted onBrown marmorated stink bug (BMSB, Halyomorpha halys; Fig 1) is well established in WI. It has now been confirmed in 32 (orange) and suspected in […]
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UW-Madison/Extension Insect Diagnostic Lab Update
Posted onCaseload at the UW Insect Diagnostic Lab has been very high over the last two weeks. A summary of fruit crop pests recently submitted to […]
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UW-Madison/Extension Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic (PDDC) Update July 31, 2020
Posted on July 31, 2020The PDDC is now once again accepting physical samples for diagnosis, but due to COVID-19, only with limited hours and limited sample processing capacity. Click […]