Category Archives: Pesticide labels

February 9, 2015

February 9, 2015

Ahhh – lovely snow!  Not so great for driving but it is pretty. Or are you cheering for Staten Island Chuck (did you know we have our own groundhog in NYS?) and his prediction for an early spring?

It’s not just dirt!?  The Cornell Soil Health Program has lots of resources and can do testing for you. And the USDA has a webinar coming up on the program that can help you interpret your assessment for better soil health!

You probably have a general idea of what hardiness zone you are in but did you know that there can be variations on a relatively small scale?  Check out the interactive USDA hardiness zone maps.   Whee!  I’m 5b!  (no colder on average than –10 to –15) But there are little chunks of 5a nearby and it’s 6a near the lake!

And here’s one with the US drought index.  I didn’t know it was abnormally dry here in Tompkins County. I think the recent snow might help!

Don’t worry – be hoppy!  (okay – I couldn’t help myself! But did I really try?)

Beginning Hops Class

Saturday, March 7, 2015, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ontario County, 480 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY

 

Feb 11, 2015 HOPS and Barley Webinar sponsored by USDA at 1:30 p.m. EST. You can stream audio through your computer.  Or you can call in to listen to the audio via your phone, U.S. & Canada Toll-Free    855-810-2136.

I don’t think the neonicitinoid conversation has hit Christmas tree growers yet, but if your customers are asking, do you know which insecticides are neonics?  Mode of action class 4A – which includes acetamiprid,  dinotefuran, imidacloprid, and thiomethoxam.Did anyone get questions this Christmas?  Don’t know what I am talking about?

Stay safe and warm and dry.  Or if you are bored and stuck inside – start planning.   (I think # 13 is in Syracuse!)

January 22, 2015

January 22, 2015

A little sun, a little snow (well we could use a LITTLE more snow) – it’s been a pretty month so far – but lots of traveling – and talking!

Get your samples defrosted and ready for The Doctor is IN diagnostic session at the CTFANY annual winter meeting in Syracuse this Friday and Saturday! See if you can stump us – I’m easy to stump but Brian is GOOD!  Lots more useful information, too.

Barking up the right tree!  Basal bark sprays have some advantages for armored scale control but I need more background on them. Rich Cowles from New Hampshire created a YouTube video on how to do it!  However, Safari for basal bark sprays is only labeled for hemlock woolly adelgid and elongate hemlock scale on Eastern and Carolina hemlocks in NYS – a 2(ee) label – not helpful for most Christmas tree growers.  I will keep asking about how we might change this.

And more sprayer technology that helps reduce the amount of pesticide applied!  Good IPM!  Oregon State has a smart sprayer designed for nurseries.

Looking for labels – and MSDS sheets?  It might be time to update your folder! PIMS – Pesticide Product, Ingredient and Manufacturer System (just be careful when googling – there is a PA mortuary site with the same acronym) is the best place to get labels because they have the NY labels and the 2(ee)s.  In the process of finding this, I learned that MSDS’s will become SDS’s.  Probably not a drastic change for any of you – but now you know!

CDMS has both labels and MSDS information

Another grower question – even if they did ask about cut flowers this time!  Michigan State University has a series of resources on cover crop technology  for Christmas tree growers

Come see us at the show – or send a question if you can’t be there – or just enjoy the week!