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- 2 days ago11 min
Field Report for June 3, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! More information on swede midge https://blogs.cornell.edu/swedemidge/ More information on brassica downy mildew https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/crucifers-cole-crops/downy-mildew-on-cabbage/ More information on scouting onions for thrips https://youtu.be/VdoXseBqo5o?si=2kC0tr7IqW6GQfll https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1168.pdf More information about purple blotch and other diseases of alliums https://www.mofga.org/resources/fact-sheets/foliar-diseases-of-alliums/ More information about RNAi for Colorado potato beetle https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/sprayable-rna-pesticide-works-best-when-potato-beetles-are-small More information about URI's Laser Scarecrow Project https://sites.google.com/view/urilaserscarecrow/home
- 4 days ago26 min
Caleb discusses (phyto)toxic gases (feat. Kasi!)
Caleb Goossen (MOFGA) provides some practical guidance on understanding the good and bad byproducts of microbial activity, while we traverse current and historical approaches for capturing heat for indoor lettuce production. Listen to the full interview with Dr. Md Sazan Rahman about UNH's Manure Heating Project. Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Mt. Fiji, Ryan James Carr; Una Noche en Lagos, El Flaco Collective
- 1 weeks ago10 min
Field Report for May 27, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! More information on scouting onions for thrips https://youtu.be/VdoXseBqo5o?si=2kC0tr7IqW6GQfll https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1168.pdf More information about garden springtails https://www.mofga.org/resources/fact-sheets/garden-springtails/ More information on epinasty https://u.osu.edu/greenhouse/tag/epinasty/ https://vegcropshotline.org/article/ethylene-damage-on-tomato-2/ More information on herbicide injury and persistent herbicides https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/synthetic-auxins https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/herbicide-carryover
- 1 weeks ago32 min
Tomato IPM Study Group: Pre Season Topics
Do you want to know more about where your tomatoes come from and the experts who are supporting our vegetable farmers to grow us the freshest, tastiest tomatoes possible, using the most economically & environmentally sustainable practices? Watch this video of large-scale processing tomato harvest. So neat! This discussion includes many pre-season topics including the economics of reflective mulch for management of pests & disease (including thrips that vector tomato spotted wilt virus) as well as an emerging pest impacting high tunnel tomato production, potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae. For the stone cold nerds, here's how to identify this aphid. Special thanks to Amanda Quadrel & Maria Cramer at Rutgers Cooperative Extension and Samantha Willden at Cornell AgriTech. Learn more about how federal and state funding provide expert support to our farmers to make pest management as environmentally and economically sustainable as possible by using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) tools & tactics. Music: With the Homies, Its a Good Day - Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Karmalot - Janset; Machete Dream - Speedy the Spider
- 2 weeks ago4 min
Field Report for May 20, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! More information on alium leafminer https://extension.psu.edu/allium-leaf-miner-on-track-to-emerge-in-early-april More information on identifying brassica pests https://lgpress.clemson.edu/publication/identification-of-common-insect-pests-of-brassica-crops/ More information on scouting onions for thrips https://youtu.be/VdoXseBqo5o?si=2kC0tr7IqW6GQfll https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1168.pdf Interactive Air Quality Map https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/?monitors=ozonepm&contours=ozone&xmin=-9064742.346057506&xmax=-7186225.938921513&ymin=4781064.352722573&ymax=5627375.12989582 More information about ozone damage on vegetable crops https://cvp.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=92 https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/cucurbits/ozone-injury-in-cucurbit-crops/
- 2 weeks ago43 min
Kasi is very interested in figs (feat. Caleb!)
Kasi is a non-commercial farmer in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. We discuss the potential for growing figs in northern climates and are joined by organic crop specialist, Caleb Goossen, who holds us by the hand and gently explains soil chemistry as we "Monday morning quarterback" a hugelkulture venture that went wrong. Dr. Becky Sideman's Research Report on Figs for Northern Climates Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Mt. Fiji, Ryan James Carr; I Don't Wanna Be You, Park Lane; In a Minute, John Runefelt
- 3 weeks ago8 min
Field Report for May 13, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! More information on alium leafminer https://extension.psu.edu/allium-leaf-miner-on-track-to-emerge-in-early-april More information on identifying brassica pests https://lgpress.clemson.edu/publication/identification-of-common-insect-pests-of-brassica-crops/ More information on beet leafminer https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/vegetable/fact-sheets/beet-spinach-leafminer Jonathan Ebba's Vermont Vegetable & Berry Growers Association webinar on Improving High Tunnel Ventilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAJX51TBZL4&list=PLszfvPfJBpgwzTlvLlnQlojedJnj0zoe3&index=11 More from the UNH Greenhouse Team https://media.unh.edu/channel/Greenhouse%2BProduction%2BWebinars%2Bby%2BUNH%2BCooperative%2BExtension/383388602
- 3 weeks ago29 min
Susan is a fiber artist
Susan is a professor of agriculture at the University of New Hampshire... but just like the rest of us she has many interests, including knitting! In this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss how to avoid bringing pests into our home when we are repurposing second hand items, as well as an instagram reel from @rachelisknitting. Please reach out to your local extension office if you think you have a bed bug infestation! Sometimes its something else but - if it is bed bugs - you want to act sooner than later and knowledge is power! Check out this Review Paper, as well as some interesting papers about remediation and IPM programs for public housing. Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Beginning to Dream, Ryan James Carr; Overture, Dozeoff; Summertime Madness; Matt Large; Whiskey Saved My Soil, Daniel Fridell
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