MN Fruit & Vegetable IPM News - Vol. 1, No. 5

The Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits Project is a team of researchers and outreach specialists who find and share work efficiency methods that improve health, safety and profits for dairy, fresh market vegetable, and berry farmers and nursery growers. We have been working with dairy farmers since 1994, vegetable farmers since 1996, berry farmers since 1999 and nursery growers since 2004.

Goal - Our goal is to help farmers prevent pain and injury so they can keep farming, perform daily household tasks, and enjoy life. We also try to promote cost effective solutions that farmers will adopt.

Target audience - Our target audience is small-scale fresh market berry growers and vegetable farmers and nursery growers in the Midwestern United States and dairy farmers in Wisconsin.

What we do - We find new tools or methods that create a safer, more efficient, and more profitable workplace. Then we evaluate these tools comparing the old way with the new way. We note differences in crop quality or production and also job quality. We write a one-page "Tip Sheet" about each tool or method.

Available at: http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/

Weekly Moth Flight Data - VegEdge, University of Minnesota

This web page contains current European corn borer, corn earworm, and Western bean cutworm moth flight data from growers throughout Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin. Throughout the summer this web page is updated weekly.

Available at: http://www.vegedge.umn.edu/2004/moth.htm

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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.

DISCLAIMER

References to products in this publication is not intended to be an endorsement to the exclusion of others which may have similar uses. Any person using products listed in this publication assumes full responsibility for their use in accordance with current manufacturer directions.

Last Revised June 4, 2004.
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