Yep, the usual message ...
A new issue of the Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News (Volume 13, number 4)
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 13:4, use the following link:
http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/ifvn/volume13/frveg1304.html .
Note that a pdf file of this issue is available for those who wish to print it.
Contents of Issue 13:4:
Upcoming Programs (SARE tour, grapes program, Calhoun twilight meeting)
Regional Updates (from Elizabeth Wahle, Jeff Kindhart, and Maurice Ogutu)
Degree-day Accumulations
Notes from Chris Doll (more on the aftermath of the freeze; reminders on
weed control)
Fruit Production and Pest Management (the physiological nature of freeze
injury; pruning peach trees that no longer bear a crop; biofix dates for
codling moth and oriental fruit moth)
Vegetable Production and Pest Management (reminders on black cutworm;
reference guide for organic insect and disease management; honey bee colony
collapse disorder)
University of Illinois Extension Specialists in Fruit & Vegetable
Production & Pest Management
Upcoming Programs
* Illinois Small Farms Sustainable Agriculture Tour, May
4, registration from 9:00 to 9:30 a.m., at Spence Farms near Fairbury,
IL. Marty and Kris Travis operate Spence Farm the oldest family farm in
Livingston County. Tour topics include vegetable and flower gardens and
plantings of garlic, daylilies, paw paws, and wildflowers for propagating
and seed. For more information, see:
<http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/smallfarm/pdf/2007-05-04_spence_farms_flyer.pdf>http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/smallfarm/pdf/2007-05-04_spence_farms_flyer..pdf.
Registration is $20.00 per person.
* 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 Wahles notes below.
* Calhoun County Orchard Twilight Meeting, May 22, 6:00 p.m., Murrays
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 Murrays 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
