Apple-Crop: Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News 13:5, May 10, 2007

[Richard Weinzierl]

A new issue of the Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News (Volume 13, number 5) 
has been posted on the web.

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Note that a pdf file of this issue is available for those who wish to print it.

Contents of Issue 13:5:


Upcoming Programs (grapes program, Calhoun twilight meeting)
Regional Updates (from Elizabeth Wahle and Maurice Ogutu)
Degree-day Accumulations
Notes from Chris Doll (crop observations, thinning, managing biennial bearing)
Neonicontinoids and Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
Fruit Production and Pest Management (thinning, codling moth, oriental 
fruit moth, lesser peachtree borer, fireblight, and summer disease management)
Vegetable Production and Pest Management (striped cucumber beetle0)
University of Illinois Extension Specialists in Fruit & Vegetable 
Production & Pest Management

Upcoming Programs

   * Managing Grape Vines After Freeze Damage,  May 12, 10:00 a.m., 
Vahling Vineyard near Stewardson, IL (just north of Effingham).  Dr. Paul 
Read, University of Nebraska, will be the featured speaker.  Note the 
directions and details in Elizabeth Wahle’s notes below.
   * Calhoun County Orchard Twilight Meeting, May 22,  6:00 p.m., Murray’s 
Orchard, just north of Mosier, IL.  From Hardin, go north to Kampsville, 
and turn left (west) on State Route 96.  Follow the right hand turn to stay 
on State Route 96, and then turn right onto Crooked Creek Road (at the 
white church on corner). Go about a ¼ mile, and Murray’s Orchard is the 
first driveway on the right.  Ongoing management needs for freeze-damaged 
orchards will be among the topics to be discussed.
 Rick Weinzierl


Richard A. Weinzierl, Professor and Extension Entomologist
Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois
S-522 Turner Hall, 1102 South Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Ph. 217-333-6651