Vegetable Scouting Report: August 27, 2025 All/multiple crops: Sporadic rain over the last week has provided some relief from the dry conditions we’ve experienced this summer. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, most of the Capital District and all of the North Country within the ENYCHP region are still abnormally dry. Alliums: Nothing new to Read More…
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2025 Post-Emergent Herbicide Reminders
2025 Post-Emergent Herbicide Reminders Mike Basedow and Janet van Zoeren Hopefully everyone found a good window to get pre-emergent materials on earlier this spring or last fall. Now that we are approaching summer, you may be planning to do some follow up herbicide applications to clean up what came up through your pre-emergent application, and Read More…
2025 Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides
2025 Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides Mike Basedow and Janet van Zoeren If you weren’t able to get pre-emergent herbicides on in the fall, spring still presents a good time to get something out before many annuals start to germinate. Below are some pre-emergent product recommendations to consider this spring. To help you select materials, have Read More…
Fall Orchard Herbicide Reminders
Fall Orchard Herbicide Reminders Mike Basedow and Janet van Zoeren As harvest season is winding down, we want to recommend that you consider a fall herbicide application (if the weather remains favorable postharvest). Fall Pre-Emergent Herbicide Recommendations From our multi-year ARDP-funded pre-emergent herbicide timing trials, we found fall applications of either Chateau + Prowl or Read More…
Veg Weekly Update 9.11.2024
All/multiple crops: As we approach peak u-pick season, it’s worth reading this short article from Rutger’s about what you can (and can’t) ask customers regarding service animals that they bring to your farm. Check out the short version here and the full length version here. The herbicide Dacthal and all other dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA) containing Read More…
2024 Orchard Post-Emergent Herbicide Reminders
2024 Post-Emergent Herbicide Reminders Mike Basedow and Janet van Zoeren Hopefully everyone found a good window to get pre-emergent materials on earlier this spring or last fall. Now that we are approaching summer, you may be planning to do some follow up herbicide applications to clean up what came up through your pre-emergent application, and Read More…
Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides
Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides Mike Basedow and Janet van Zoeren If you weren’t able to get pre-emergent herbicides on in the fall, spring still presents a good time to get something out before many annuals start to germinate. Below are some pre-emergent product recommendations to consider this spring. To help you select materials, have a Read More…
Tree Fruit Blog: Spring Orchard Pre-Emergent Herbicides
Mike Basedow, Extension Specialist & Janet van Zoeren, Extension Specialist Cornell Cooperative Extension If you weren’t able to get pre-emergent herbicides on in the fall, spring still presents a good time to get something out before many annuals start to germinate. Below are some pre-emergent product recommendations to consider this spring. To help you select Read More…
Weed of the Week: Common Lambsquarters
Jingjing Yin, Commercial Ornamental Horticulture Specialist Cornell Cooperative Extension Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program Common lambsquarters (Chenopodium album L.) is a broadleaf summer annual. It is one member of the goosefoot family. It was once thought to be a native of Europe and Asia. However, recent archaeological studies show that the seeds were stored Read More…
Weed of the Week – Marestail / Horseweed
Aaron Gabriel, Cornell Cooperative Extension Horseweed or Marestail, Conyza canadensis, is a very problematic weed across New York, especially in reduced tillage systems and soybean crops. Marestail is resistant to several herbicides, including glyphosate, but that does not mean it is hard to control. Marestail grows as both a winter annual (germinating in the late Read More…
Weed of the Week – Canada Thistle
Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) is a weed in the Aster family that has become more challenging in specialty crop systems, pastures and disturbed sites. Reduced tillage cropping systems struggle with Canada thistle because it spreads through seeds and underground root systems that can extend 20 feet deep and 17 feet across. It is found throughout Read More…
Weed of the Week – Yellow Nutsedge
Although nutsedge prefers moist environments, it is found in all our cropping systems – row crops, pasture, and hay fields. It looks like a grass, long slender leaves with parallel venastion, arising from the soil. The leaves however, are glossy, fairly thick, and pointed. When you cut across the base of the shoot, you can Read More…