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Pest Management Newsletters
- Resistant
Pest Management Newsletter
http://www.msstate.edu/Entomology/EntHome.html
The Resistance Pest Management (RPM) Newsletter is a biannual
newsletter of the Center for Integrated Plant Systems (CIPS) in
cooperation with the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC)
and the Western Regional Coordinating Committee (WRCC-60).
- The RPM Newsletter was developed to spread knowledge of insecticide
resistance around the world. The goal of the RPM Newsletter is
to inform researchers, industry workers, pesticide policy bureaucrats
and field personnel worldwide of ongoing changes and advances
in pesticide resistance management, provide an archival resource
to national and international policy leaders, and enhance communication
of ideas among resistance managers worldCrop
- Mississippi Crop
Situation Blog
http://www.msstate.edu/Entomology/IPM/IPMCONTENTS.html
The Mississippi Crop Situation Blog was created by Extension and
Research personnel at Mississippi State University with responsibilities
in agricultural row crops.
- Iowa State
Integrated Crop Management Newsletters
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/
This crop news site is managed by the Iowa State University Agriculture
and Natural Resources Extension with assistance from Extension
Communications and External Relations. Specialists from the Departments
of Agriculture and Bio-Systems Engineering, Agronomy, Entomology
and Plant Pathology in the Iowa State University College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences supply most of the content on this site.
- Michigan
State University's Field Crop Extension News http://www.msue.msu.edu/ipm/fieldCAT.htm
This blog-style newsletter also allows readers to sign up for
email alerts when new content is posted online.
- Southwest
Florida Pest and Disease Hotline
http://hchort.ifas.ufl.edu/SWFPDH.htm
This newsletter contains a wide variety of information and researach
reports of interest to vegetable growers, including crop updates.
Current issue and past issues can be accessed from this page.
Published by the Hendry County Cooperative Extension Office, University
of Florida Cooperative Extension Service.
Newsletters for Field Crop Growers
- Indiana
Pest and Crop Newsletter
http://www.entm.purdue.edu/Entomology/ext/targets/newslett.htm
The Pest & Crop Newsletter provides up-to-date information
on pests (insect and mites, weeds, plant diseases, nematodes,
and vertebrates) and their impact on field crops throughout the
state. Graphics to aid in pest identification, scouting procedures,
management guidelines, and control materials and techniques are
also presented. Crop fertility, production information, weather
updates and forecasts, changes in pesticide regulations and/or
status, and opportunities for continuing education are also included.
- Iowa State Integrated
Crop Management Newsletters
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/
This newsletter for field crops gives you detailed, research-based
articles, weekly issues from spring to fall for the latest research
and information, statewide scouting reports of Iowa crop conditions
from ISU Extension and private consultants, full-color issues
from spring to fall for easy identification of crops and pests,
andannouncements of ISU conferences, short courses, and classes.
- Michigan
State University's Field Crop Advisory Team (CAT) Alert newsletters
http://fieldcrop.msu.edu/
This newsletter has pest management advice for growing small grains,
forages, soy beans, corn, dry beans and sugar beets. The articles
and reports are written by MSU Extension faculty and field agents.
Current season issues along with a searchable archives are available.
- Middlesex Soil &
Crop Association's Newsletter
https://tvrscia.wordpress.com/
"Between the Rows" has general cropping articles and
plot research data. The newsletter is published 4 - 6 times a
year.
- Wisconsin Crop Manager
http://ipcm.wisc.edu/wcm/
Newsletters for Fruit Growers
- Illinois Fruit
and Vegetable News
http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/ifvn/index.html
This newsletter contains crop updates across the state, plus updates
on pest situations, and research trials on fruits and vegetables.
- Massachusetts
Fruit Notes
http://www.umass.edu/fruitadvisor/fruitnotes/FruitNotes.htm
This newsletter is published each January, April, July, and October
by the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of
Massachusetts. Fruit Notes focuses primarily on tree-fruit
culture, but addresses small-fruit problems occasionally. Most
reports are from current research at the University of Massachusetts
and other universities.
- Michigan
State University's Fruit Crop Advisory Team (CAT) Alert newsletters
http://www.msue.msu.edu/ipm/fruitCAT.htm
This newsletter has pest management advice for commercial production
of tree fruit and small fruit. The articles and reports are written
by MSU Extension faculty and field agents. Current season issues
along with searchable archives are available.
- Southwest
Michigan Update
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/southwest_michigan_fruit_regional_report_august_6_2013
This Web page is provided for fruit growers and others who are
interested in current crop and pest conditions in Southwest Michigan.
Current Crop Conditions, a review of harvest pest and disease
conditions for fruit crops in Southwest Michigan. This regional
report is updated monthly during the winter. Online links to Current
Weather conditions and Weather Web sites, Calendar of Extension
Events for fruit growers in Southwest Michigan, Pest of The Month,
articles of general interest, plus a listing of articles on plants,
horticulture, insect pests and plant diseases. There is also a
list of Links to other Fruit Web sites.
- Missouri
Berry Basket News
http://guides.library.missouristate.edu/content.php?pid=101274&sid=786947
A quarterly newsletter for Missouri Small Fruit and Vegetable
Growers, The Berry Basket is produced cooperatively by the University
of Missouri Extension, Greene County and the State Fruit Experiment
Station of Southwest Missouri State University. A link is provided
to subscribe or unsubscribe to the Berry Basket. The Berry Basket
Newsletter is in PDF format and Adobe Acrobat Reader is required.(link
provided). Current and back issues are listed, index provided.
- Southwest
Missouri Grape Newsletter: Vineyard and Vintage Views http://guides.library.missouristate.edu/content.php?pid=101274&sid=786875
The Commercial Grape Advisory Program serves Missouri commercial
grape producers by publishing a newsletter jointly with the enology
or wine advisory program, bimonthly by the Southwest Missouri
State University. The Vineyard and Vintage View Newsletter is
in PDF format and Adobe Acrobat Reader is required (link provided).
Current and back issues are listed.
- New York
Fruit Newsletter - Scaffolds
http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/
Welcome to Scaffolds Fruit Journal, the weekly update on pest
management and crop development. Scaffolds is published by Cornell
University--NYS Agricultural Experiment Station (Geneva) and Ithaca--with
the assistance of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
- New
Jersey Plant & Pest Advisory Newsletters
http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/pubs/plantandpestadvisory/
Weekly newsletters from April to Oct, then monthly during the
winter. These newsletters are Adobe Acrobat PDF formatted files.
You will need to download the free Adobe PDF reader version 2.1.
or 3.0.
- New
Jersey Blueberry Bulletin
http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/pubs/blueberrybulletin/index.htm
Weekly Newsletters from April to Oct, then monthly during the
winter. These newsletters are Adobe Acrobat PDF formatted files.
You will need to download the free Adobe PDF reader version 2.1.
or 3.0.
- North
Carolina's Henderson County Apple Production Newsletters
http://henderson.ces.ncsu.edu/site-henderson/
The NC State Apple Production Newsletter is an informative, monthly
newsletter. It contains articles written by NC State Extension
specialists, researchers, and county agricultural extension agents.
Online subscription available.
- Nova Scotia
Orchard Outlook (archives)
http://www.perennia.ca/orchardoutlook.php
The Orchard Outlook was a newletter containing information about
the Tree Fruit Industry in Nova Scotia. Publication was weekly
in season, moving to biweekly. Published by Nova Scotia Department
of Agriculture and Marketing. Archives from 1995-2000.
- Nova Scotia
Berry Crops Newsletter
http://www.novascotiastrawberryblog.com/
The blog contains timely information mainly of interest to strawberry,
raspberry, blueberry and grape producers in Nova Scotia.
- Pennsylvania's Fruit
Times Newsletter
http://fruittimes.cas.psu.edu/
A multidisciplinary publication, PSU College of Ag Sciences, which
is published every 2 weeks from April 1 through October and published
monthly for the remainder of the year. Since 1999.
- Purdue's
Facts for Fancy Fruit
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/fff/fff.shtml
Facts for Fancy Fruit is a newsletter for commercial and advanced
amateur fruit growers developed in the Purdue University Department
of Horticulture with regular contributions from the specialists
in the Departments of Entomology and Botany and Plant Pathology,
and from other agents & specialists on campus. Available in
text or Adobe Acrobat PDF formatted files.
- Southeast
Regional Peach Newsletter
http://hos.ufl.edu/extension/stonefruit/newsletters
This newsletter is published quarterly for peach growers in the
southeastern US. Online since 2001. Available in Adobe Acrobat
PDF formatted files.
- Southern
Appalachian Apple IPM Net (North Carolina) http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/apple-pest-news-archives/
The Southern Appalachian Apple IPM Update is published bi-weekly
during the growing season and includes contributions from the
NC State University Extension Vegetable and Fruit Program faculty
and staff, Curtis Consulting, growers, private IPM consultants,
input suppliers, and others.
- Washington
State University Areawide IPM Update
http://www.tfrec.wsu.edu/IPMnews/index.html
The Newsletter of Pheromone-based Orchard Pest Management features
research updates and field scouting reports from Washington State.
Weekly during the growing season.
- The
Orchard Monitor Fruit Newsletter - West Virginia http://www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/wvufarm4.html
The Orchard Monitor Fruit Newsletter by Extension Specialists
at the West Virginia Experment Station, published biweekly from
April to August, with additional issues in February and October.
The newsletter contains information on regional and local educational
events of interest to fruit producers, entomological updates with
the latest pheromone trap catch information, plant pathology updates,
and labor relations issues.
Newsletters for Vegetable Growers
- New Jersey
Plant & Pest Advisory Newsletters
http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/pubs/plantandpestadvisory/
Subscribe to the newsletter by email or RSS. Newsletter archives
are online.
- Ohio State
University Extension Vegetable Crops - the VegNet
http:/www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~vegnet/
- Illinois Fruit and Vegetable
News
http://ipm.illinois.edu/ifvn/
A Publication of University of Illinois Extension and the College
of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. Each issue
includes a list of upcoming programs, local issues and articles
on fruit and vegetable production and IPM.
- Indiana
Vegetable Crop Hotline
http://www.btny.purdue.edu/pubs/vegcrop/index2011.html
Providing the commercial vegetable grower with timely information
about disease, insect and weed pests, fertility practices, post-harvest
problems, pesticide label changes, meetings and much more. Newsletters
are posted regularly during the growing season and monthly during
the winter. This website site has a handy newsletter index for
each year, allowing readers to view the season's topics listed
by crops and by subject matter
- Michigan
State University Vegetable Extension News
http://news.msue.msu.edu/news/category/vegetables
This blog-style newsletter also allows readers to sign up for
email alerts when new content is posted online. Its content encompasses
an extraordinary range of topics, extending beyond traditional
crop production issues, to include food safety, economy and regional
issues.
- Vegetable
Growers News
http://vegetablegrowersnews.com/index.php/magazine
Published monthly, this newspaper gives a good overview of vegetable
production issues and research south-of-the-border. Readers may
also follow VGN on Twitter @VGN_News.
Organic Agriculture
- Organic
Agriculture Centre of Canada
http://www.organicagcentre.ca/NewspaperArticles/na_welcome.asp
A regular selection of articles produced by The Organic Science
Cluster, a collaborative effort between Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada, the Organic Federation of Canada and industry partners.
Food Safety
- Food Safety News
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/
A daily Web-based newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding
food safety. An interesting perspective on food safety, the articles
often cover the legal and political implications of foodborne
illness.
Produce Business
- Perishable
Pundit
http://www.perishablepundit.com/index.php
Provides a unique and thought provoking perspective on key issues
within the food industry.
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