Grace-Way Farm, Lowville, New York, is among several regional farms assisting the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program’s research-based development of alfalfa varieties resistant to alfalfa snout beetle (ASB). ASB is the most destructive ...
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Contributed by Ken Wise – NYS IPM Program This week near Kinderhook in Eastern NY there is a large infestation of fall armyworm larvae in a 50 acre alfalfa field. The larvae completely ate ...
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The biocontrol nematode science developed in northern New York to manage alfalfa snout beetle is now being tested for the reduction of other agricultural pests in the Midwest. With a long-term commitment from the ...
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Many of you have had issues with cereal leaf beetle in small grains. In the late 1960s and 1970s, USDA released a parasitoid the controlled cereal leaf beetle at very high levels. It was ...
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Cornell University entomologist Elson Shields, Ph.D., has written a paper on the true cost of alfalfa snout beetle to a farm to encourage dairy and crop farmers to act now to reduce populations of ...
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Jaime Cummings and Ken Wise (NYS IPM), Mike Stanyard (CCE NWNY), and Elson Shields (Cornell Entomology) Widespread drought conditions are stressing the crops, and may lead to flare ups of two-spotted spider mites in ...
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Contributed by Mike Helms, Pesticide Management Education Program The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) recently approved the registration of three insecticides containing the active ingredient afidopyrofen. These are the first products ...
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Contributed by Jaime Cummings, NYS Integrated Pest Management Program Many of you in certain parts of NY experience damage and losses to your small grains crops from the Cereal Leaf Beetle. It is considered ...
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Farmers now have a new way to apply biocontrol nematodes to protect crops critical to dairy and livestock agriculture, thanks to research funded by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program. “Dairy farmers and ...
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Given the recent controversy surrounding the proposed legislative bans on some pesticides in NY, Cornell researchers and extension specialists are working to provide necessary data on the efficacy, usefulness and perceived need for these ...
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