Wheat diseases reduce grain yield and/or quality in most years. Many wheat producers rely on foliar fungicides as their primary disease management weapon. Foliar fungicides are certainly an important disease management tool. However, pre-plant decisions – that is, decisions being…
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Moving to Buildings
While brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) has been seen on buildings since early September, the numbers increased substantially this past weekend. Over the next several weeks, BMSB will gather on buildings in search of suitable overwintering sites. Once inside buildings…
Posted in Household Pests
Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab Highlights
The following plant disease highlights from the UK Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratories represent recent sample submissions from field crops, fruit, vegetables, and ornamentals. During the past week, diagnoses included sudden death syndrome and charcoal rot on soybean; brown spot, target…
Posted in Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab
2014 Insect Trap Counts
Weekly trap counts for major insect pests are provided by the Kentucky IPM Program. Traps are located at the UK Research Center in western Kentucky and the UK Spindletop Farm in Lexington. Below are trap counts for the current period.…
Posted in Insect Trap Counts
Clean up Those Fields with Fall Sanitation
With the first frosts of fall approaching and production for many vegetable fields exhausted, producers should be preparing fields for winter. Part of that preparation should be destruction of any crop residue remaining. Crop residue that remains in the field…
Posted in Vegetables
Tomato Fruitworm in High Tunnels
The USDA NRCS EQIP high tunnel cost-share program has been very successful in Kentucky and there are many new high tunnels across the state. High-tunnels extend the growing season for high value crops with tomatoes as one of the most…
Posted in Vegetables
Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab Highlights
The following plant disease highlights from the UK Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratories represent recent sample submissions from field crops, fruit, vegetables, and ornamentals. Agronomic samples over the past week included brown spot, sudden death syndrome, soybean cyst nematode, and potassium…
Posted in Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab
2014 Insect Trap Counts
Weekly trap counts for major insect pests are provided by the Kentucky IPM Program. Traps are located at the UK Research Center in western Kentucky and the UK Spindletop Farm in Lexington. Below are trap counts for the current period.…
Posted in Insect Trap Counts
Got Fall Armyworm? Want Some More!!!
For the past week or so, we have been dealing with large populations of fall armyworm (FAW) caterpillars. These hungry little pests have devoured alfalfa, forage and lawn grasses, and munched around the edges of soybean fields. I am sorry…
Know Your Pests and Recognize Their Enemies: True Bugs
Some of the more difficult to control insects in the field often belong to the true bug group. Squash bug, stink bugs, and plant bugs belong to this group. But there are also several important groups of insect predators that…
Posted in Vegetables
When ‘Insects Don’t Read the Book’
In early August, I was collecting green stink bugs for a project that one of my graduate students is working on, and I came across an unusual specimen. Generally, when looking for green stink bugs, you expect them to be…
Posted in General Pests
Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab Highlights
The following plant disease highlights from the UK Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratories represent recent sample submissions from field crops, fruit, vegetables, and ornamentals. During the past week, agronomic crop diagnoses included northern leaf blight and Fusarium stalk rot on corn;…
Posted in Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab
2014 Insect Trap Counts
Weekly trap counts for major insect pests are provided by the Kentucky IPM Program. Traps are located at the UK Research Center in western Kentucky and the UK Spindletop Farm in Lexington. Below are trap counts for the current period.…
Posted in Insect Trap Counts
Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab Highlights
The following plant disease highlights from the UK Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratories represent recent sample submissions from field crops, fruit, vegetables, and ornamentals. During the past week, agronomic crop diagnoses included southern leaf blight on corn; brown spot, frogeye, downy…
Posted in Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab
2014 Insect Trap Counts
Weekly trap counts for major insect pests are provided by the Kentucky IPM Program. Traps are located at the UK Research Center in western Kentucky and the UK Spindletop Farm in Lexington. Below are trap counts for the current period.…
Posted in Insect Trap Counts
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