Friday, August 31 at 12:45pm to 4:15pm Cornell Orchards 701 Dryden Rd, Ithaca, NY Cornell University’s Department of Horticulture is hosting a small fruit open house from 12:45 to 4:15 pm on Friday, August ...
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Via Cathy Heidenreich, Berry Extension Support Specialist: Suffolk County SWD Alert! July 24, 2012. Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) numbers in traps are up in Suffolk County. Four apple cider vinegar traps in raspberry caught ...
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From John Jaenike, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Rochester June 27, 2012. 3 female Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) were reared out of strawberries collected from a field in Monroe County. July 16, 2012. ...
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Special Drought Edition of New York Berry News Contents for Vol. 11 No. 7a, July 19, 2012: The Current Drought Situation in the Northeast and NY Water Requirements and Water Stress in Strawberry ...
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From Peter Jentsch, Senior Extension Associate, Department of Entomology, Hudson Valley Lab, pjj5@cornell.edu July 16, 2012. 2 male SWD were caught in an apple cider vinegar trap in Orange County in a stone fruit ...
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From Julie Carroll, Fruit IPM Coordinator, New York State Integrated Pest Management Program. July 16, 2012. 1 male and 1 female SWD were caught in an apple cider vinegar trap in Orleans County in ...
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From Cathy Heidenreich, Extension berry specialist mcm4@cornell.edu July 12, 2012. 1 male SWD was caught in an apple cider vinegar trap in Tompkins County near a wood where a wild host species (Twinberry) was ...
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From Cathy Heidenreich, Extension berry specialist mcm4@cornell.edu 1 male and 1 female adult SWD were caught in an apple cider vinegar trap in a Yates County cherry orchard (non-fruiting) during the past week. This ...
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Story by Amanda Garris, Cornell Chronicle, 7/5/2012: “Through a new agreement between the New York State Berry Growers Association (NYSBGA) and the Cornell berry breeding program, raspberry and strawberry growers across the state will ...
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The June issue of NY Berry News is now available online: www.fruit.cornell.edu/nybn Headlines include: Annual Nitrogen Fertility Management in Blueberries for Organic and Conventional Farms Armyworms Invade Parts of New York USDA Designates Counties in New York as Primary Natural Disaster Areas Disease Snapshot: Mummy berry Long‐necked Seed Bug – An Occasional Pest in Strawberries Causes of Misshapen Strawberries Blueberry Harvest & Postharvest Handling Strawberry Renovation Revisited Raspberry & Blackberry Harvest & Postharvest Handling
