UMass Vegetable & Fruit IPM Network

09/30/2022

Be advised!

New UMass Amherst research says that we need to pay more attention to flies landing on our food.

02/01/2022

The UMass Extension Fruit Team is offering its Mass Aggies seminar series online again this year! Visit the event page here, https://ag.umass.edu/fruit/news-events/mass-aggie-seminars-2022,
for more details and registration information. The first in the series is this Saturday, 10:30am!

Use this link to register online! Links to access the Zoom seminar will be sent out in a seperate e-mail prior to the date of the session(s) you have registered for. Important information for registrants: Mail in sign ups: We are currently working remotely. As such, mail is not collected on a daily....

12/15/2021

It wouldn't be a NE Veg Conference without Dr. Meg McGrath, truly a standard feature in our program. Today she's talking about downy mildew controls, including resistant cultivars and biopesticides. As always her work is well published and easily accessed here:
https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/

12/12/2021

This Monday! Register now! nevbga.com/nevfc

New England Vegetable & Fruit Conference Conference includes more than 25 educational sessions over 3 days, covering major vegetable, berry and tree fruit crops as well as various special topics. A Farmer to Farmer meeting after each morning and afternoon session will bring speakers and farmers toge...

12/08/2021

There's still time to register for the New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference. 10 sessions, 15.5 hours of pesticide credits, and
18 crop advisor credits for $50

Registration and more info here: https://nevbga.com/nevfc/

06/09/2021

Looking for a short, sweet, information packed (with a few bad jokes for good measure)podcast to get you up to speed on current fruit production events in Massachusetts? Look no further! The UMass IPM Fruit Loop goes out once a week and covers the information presented in that week's Healthy Fruit Newsletter.
Take a listen!

This week's UMass IPM Fruit Loop features Jon Clements, Dan Cooley, Jaime Piñero and myself (Hawkeye) from the fruit team and a guest article from Cornell's Dr. Terrence Robinson. Join us for a spin through the orchard where we cover meeting updates, currently degree day accumulations, insect pest ...

04/28/2021

Its a Fruit Loop Two-fer! Last week's and tis week's Healthy Fruit audio recording are available for you to use to get caught up on all your tree fruit production concerns. Use this link to listen in!

Welcome to The UMass IPM Fruit Loop! While Hawkeye and Lens do most of the talking, this is a co-creation of weekly contributions from Extension Educators Jon Clements and Elizabeth Garofalo. Extension and Stockbridge School of Agriculture's Dr. Jamie Piñero contributes weekly insect updates and in...

04/16/2021

We get it, you can't always make it to the zoom meeting. No worries, we got you covered! Here is the newest UMass Extension Fruit Team Twilight meeting recording. Click the link to get up to date on all things apple and grape: https://youtu.be/xxvWem_eWJo

04/07/2021

Hawkeye and the rest of the Fruit team are back in the saddle, bringing you the latest in the wild and wooly (apple aphid, haha) world of fruit production. Check out the first UMass IPM Fruit Loop podcast episode of the season here:

Its the all Hawkeye channel until I can hoodwink... I mean, get someone else to join me in the weekly Healthy Fruit shenanigans. Nonetheless, listen in for your in season weekly run down of what all is afoot in the orchard and field. This week you will find budstages, disease updates and early seaso...

03/24/2021

URI Cooperative Extension's Heather Faubert has posted the first winter moth update for 2021. Click this link to see what's happening out there!

March 22, 2021 Winter moth update Winter moth update, March 24, 2021 Winter moth populations have been decreasing for several years, though they can still be a problem for people growing apples, pears, and blueberries. Over the last decade, winter moth eggs started hatching anywhere from mid-March t...

03/19/2021

The latest recording from the New England Extension Fruit Educators Consortium is on Youtube and ready to view!
Use the link below to hear about Honecrisp bitter pit and soft scald research and get all the juicy details about the AgRadar relaunch!
https://youtu.be/Doaq4BMV7gU

03/16/2021

Early season insect pests recording is up and ready to watch!
Use this link to check it out: https://youtu.be/0kNaQEKafEA