In this Issue:
To Our Readers
GUEST ARTICLE
Maximizing Fruit Quality in Fresh Market Tomatoes – by Sieg Snapp, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State UniversityVEGETABLE NEWS
APPLE NEWS
STRAWBERRY NEWS
| Vol 1 No. 14 | August 30, 2004 |
To Our Readers
This will be the last regular edition of the MN Fruit & Vegetable IPM News. We will have a wrap-up edition on September 13 th. Thanks go out to all our apple cooperators and ECB/CEW trapcooperators who provide us with weekly monitoring information. It has been a great pleasure to write the newsletter this year. We hope that you like the combined fruit and vegetable format. If all goes well, we hope to bring you this format again next year. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors – the Minnesota Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association and the USDA Risk Management Agency.
Please feel free to drop us a line and tell us what you liked, what you didn’t like, and what you would like to see more of in this publication.
Have a bountiful harvest!
Jean Ciborowski, MDA
Bill Hutchison, U of MN
Suzanne Wold-Burkness, U of MN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison, Department of Entomology,
University of Minnesota, hutch002@umn.edu
Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Division,jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us
Suzanne Wold-Burkness, Department of Entomology, University of
Minnesota, woldx018@umn.edu
The Newsletter is published weekly from May through August, cooperatively, by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the University of Minnesota (U of MN). Reports are posted on the U of MN and MDA web sites on Fridays. If you have suggestions and/or comments, please send your contributions by 4 p.m., Tuesday to Jeanne Ciborowski, 651-297-3217, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us , MDA, 90 W. Plato Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55107-2094. You can access the Newsletter at the U of MN web site in htm. format at: www.vegedge.umn.edu/MNFruit&VegNews/mnindex.htm and at the MDA web site in pdf. format at: www.mda.state.mn.us/biocon/fruitreports/default.htm
Partial funding for this publication is provided through partnership agreements with the Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association and the United States Department of Agriculture – Risk Management Agency (RMA) and the RMA Community Outreach and Assistance Partnership Program. These institutions are equal opportunity providers.
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