In this Issue:
VEGETABLE NEWS
STRAWBERRY NEWS
APPLE NEWS
Excerpt from: When to Prune Out Fire Blight: To Prune or Not to Prune
Weekly Trap Counts: July 11 - July 21, 2005
WEB SITES
PLEASE NOTE: The Newsletter will not be published for the next 2 weeks. The next Newsletter will be available on August 12.
| Vol 2 No.11 | July 25, 2005 |
Web Sites of Interest
Fancy Fruit Newsletter from Purdue University - Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture. Web site: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/fff/fff.html
Fruit Crop Team Alerts from Michigan State University. Offers pest management advise for commercial fruit production. Web site: http://www.ipm.msu.edu/fruitCAT.htm
Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News from the University of Illinois Extension and the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences is a Newsletter for Commercial Growers of Fruit and Vegetable Crops. Web site: http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/ifvn/index.html
Scaffolds Fruit Journal from Cornell University - NYS Agricultural Experiment Station ( Geneva) and Ithaca - with the assistance of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Web site: http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/scaffolds/2005/
The Virtual Orchard is a dedicated World Wide Web site for sustainable apple production. It provides a forum for research and extension projects dealing with commercial apple production and marketing issues. Web site: http://www.virtualorchard.net/
Wisconsin Pest Bulletin from Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection. Web site: http://pestbulletin.wi.gov/index.jsp
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison (hutch002@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Management and Development Division, and Suzanne Wold-Burkness (woldx018@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
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., Wednesday 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/
Partial funding for this publication is provided through partnership agreements with the Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (MFVGA) and the United States Department of Agriculture – Risk Management Agency (RMA). These institutions are equal opportunity providers.
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