A new issue of the Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News (Volume 13, number 6)
has been posted on the web.
To reach the home page for the Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News (with
links to all issues and additional resources), use the following link:
http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/ifvn/index.html
For direct access to issue 13:6, use the following link:
http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/ifvn/volume13/frveg1306.html .
Note that a pdf file of this issue is available for those who wish to print it.
Contents of Issue 13:6:
Upcoming Programs (Summer Horticulture Day, June 14)
New Agriculture Network (for small farmers and organic growers)
Regional Updates (from Elizabeth Wahle)
Degree-day Accumulations
Notes from Chris Doll (phenology notes, climbing milkweed, training new
trees, smoothing the orchard floor)
Fruit Production and Pest Management (codling moth phenology, Botrytis
fruit rot of strawberries)
Vegetable Production and Pest Management (herbicide label updates for Prowl
H2O, Dual Magnum, and Sinbar; giant ragweed and waterhemps as "new" problem
weeds in vegetables)
University of Illinois Extension Specialists in Fruit & Vegetable
Production & Pest Management
Upcoming Programs
Summer Horticulture Day, June 4, registration begins at 8:00 a.m. The
program begins at Southern FS near Cobden, IL, with opportunities to tour
Flamm's fruit and vegetable production and packing operations, Rosemont
Farms packing enterprise, and Van Jacob Vineyard and Winery.
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
