Tag: Cranberries
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Posted on June 6, 2022
Vegetative Side Shoots
Following 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
In 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
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 […]
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Posted on May 17, 2022
Grower Update: Vilas 51
Spring has officially sprung in the Northwoods! Everyone was very excited to get outside and busy putting in irrigation and spring projects around the farm. […]
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Genetic Fingerprinting at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station: Part 1
Cultivar contamination—whether by sport seeds that germinated from an unharvested berry, or by impure cuttings used for propagation when a bed was planted—prevents cranberry growers […]
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Update from the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station
As the middle of May approaches and our March winds still pounding the region it feels a lot like April yet. The plants are starting […]
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Grower Update: Flying Dollar Cranberry
Hello everybody! Now that we got a few nights of frost watch under our belts and we have the irrigation systems all up and working […]
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Posted on May 16, 2022
Walk With Care in Cranberry Beds
The Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station hosts tours for the media, public servants, local school groups as well as in-bed research conducted by UW-Madison staff and […]
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Posted on April 27, 2022
Three Years’ Growth at WCRS Breeding Plots
Juan Zalapa and his team are proud of the diversity they’ve been able to plant at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station. In three years of […]
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Orthene (acephate), Pollinator Activity, and Yield
Orthene (acephate) is a broad spectrum-organophosphate insecticide that has been available to the cranberry industry for many years, but usage of the material in Wisconsin […]