In this Issue:

FEATURE ARTICLE

From the Marketing Department: How to Lose a Customer - For Life!

RESEARCH UPDATE

Use of Green Manure Cover Crops Improves Disease Management

VEGETABLE NEWS

Vegetable Insect Pest Update

Western Bean Cutworm Update

STRAWBERRY NEWS

MDA's Pest Sampling Data

IPM Berry Update

APPLE NEWS

Weekly Trap Counts

Apple Scab Infections

NEW PUBLICATION

Managing Pests in Landscapes & Homes - a Homeowner’s Guide to Integrated Pest Management in Minnesota

Please note: There will be NO IPM Newsletter next week. We will be back on June 22nd!


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Insect, Pest Fact Sheets

Vol 4 No. 5   June 8, 2007

Apple Scab Infections (Cornell Model)

Produced using Spec 7 Pro (Spectrum Technologies, Inc.)
(Parameters: Base temp. = 33 degrees F, Upper limit temp. = 78 degrees F, Wetness threshold = 6)

Orchard

# of Infection Periods

Infection Period Dates

Overall
Hours of Wetness

2007 Dates

Elgin

5

5/31 - 6/3, 6/6

59.0

5/30 – 6/6

Fairhaven

5

5/30, 5/31, 6/2 - 6/4

55.0

5/28 - 6/4

Faribault – Site 1

4

5/30, 6/1 - 6/3

50.0

5/29 – 6/5

Faribault – Site 2

4

5/31 – 6/3

29.0

5/31 – 6/6

Hastings – Site 1

6

5/30 - 6/4

58.0

5/30 – 6/5

Hastings – Site 2

4

5/31 - 6/3

45.8

5/31 – 6/7

Kerrick

4

5/30, 5/31, 6/3, 6/4

58.0

5/29 – 6/5

Lake City

4

5/31, 6/1 - 6/3

54.0

5/30 – 6/6

Lakeville

3

6/1 - 6/3

40.3

5/31 – 6/6

Preston

6

5/31, 6/1 - 6/5

60.5

5/30 – 6/5

Shafer

4

5/31, 6/1 - 6/3

32.2

5/31 – 6/6

St. Charles

6

5/31 - 6/5

69.0

5/30 – 6/5

Veseli

5

5/30, 5/31, 6/2 - 6/4

68.0

5/29 – 6/6

West St. Paul

6

5/30 - 6/4

73.0

5/30 – 6/6

White Bear Lake

3

5/31, 6/2, 6/3

33.5

5/30 – 6/6

 

 

 

 




 

 

 

 

 

 

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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, 651-201-6217, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us , MDA, 625 Robert St. North, St. Paul, MN  55155.  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/plants/pestmanagement/ipm/ipmnews.htm

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