Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol I, Issue 5 (June 10, 2016) Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic update Insect Diagnostic Lab update New strawberry plant care in the field Mild […]

Cranberry Crop Management Journal — Vol XXIX, Issue 4 (May 30, 2016) Upcoming Degree-Day Benchmarks Viruses Observations from the Field Revisiting the Insecticide Intrepid Grower Updates

In these warmer days of spring and summer, degree-days can accumulate pretty quickly. For example, each of the last few days with lows in the […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol I, Issue 4 (May 29, 2016) Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic update Special pesticide registrations Raspberry varieties and infestation by spotted wing drosophila Event […]

Cranberry Crop Management Journal — Vol XXIX, Issue 3 (May 9, 2016) Degree Day Modeling in Cranberry Cottonball Control Indar Label Spring Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Generic […]

The maps below show degree day accumulations for cranberry plants and Sparganothis fruitworm across Wisconsin up through May 12, 2016. The weather data used for […]

In general, it’s been fairly cool over the past two weeks, so we have not accumulated many more degree days than when we last reported […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol I, Issue 2 (May 2, 2016) Degree Day Overview Spotted Lanternfly Pest Alert Strawberry Cultivars and your Farm Profitability Cranberry Degree Day […]

Wisconsin Fruit News — Vol I, Issue 1 (April 18, 2016) Introducing the Wisconsin Fruit News Spotted wing drosophila survey summary The importance of Degree Day modeling […]

Degree days (DD) are a tool with which we can estimate the most abundant life stage present of a certain pest species at each point […]