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- Yesterday36 min
Elisabeth is serious about onions
Fellow entomologist, Elisabeth Hodgdon, joins us for a deep dive into onion thrips management as she has been troubleshooting an unusual situation that is becoming more common among small-scale farming in across the northeast. We are joined by Ethan Grunberg to compare and contrast pest complexes in small- and large-scale onion production. The full interview with Elisabeth & Ethan, Cornell Cooperative Extension More on variety selection for overwintering onion crops More on successful application of entomopathogenic nematodes Music: With the Homies - Sarah, The Illstrumentalist; Tell 'Em No - Flux Vortex; Dress Up - Walking Hearts; Arzoo - Kanika; Fantasize - I'MIN; Feel Alive - Glass House
- 6 days ago13 min
Field Report for June 10, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! Check out breaking news on corn earworm research! https://www.cewipm.org/ More information about onion & garlic diseases https://www.apsnet.org/edcenter/pdlessons/Pages/Stemphylium-leaf-blight-Onion.aspx https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_480.pdf https://www.umass.edu/agriculture-food-environment/vegetable/fact-sheets/alliums-botrytis-neck-rot Biocontrol suppliers for beneficial nematodes https://ipmlabs.com/ https://www.griffins.com/category/HGPROD.PROTECT.INSECTS https://www.biolineagrosciencesna.com/ https://www.persistentbiocontrol.com/about How to grow your own beneficial nematodes https://nnyagdev.org/index.php/persistent-biocontrol-nematodes-instructional-manuals-and-videos/
- 1 weeks ago32 min
Jason is unfazed by his climate
Jason wants to turn his lawn into an edible landscape and an amazing place for his family in Oregon. We’ll drop in throughout the year to hear how things are progressing, including an update on their luffa project, more construction plans and a discussion of new and repurposed building materials. Check out this example of the Sunset Climate Zones put to use, this pictographic on Trigger (Willie Nelson's guitar), as well as extension resources on using pressure treated wood in raised bed construction, using heat tape/cables in tunnel production, and plasticulture for extended season sweetcorn. Music: With the Homies - Sarah, The Illstrumentalist; Joyride - Roy Edwin Williams; Sneaky Breezy, Dinner at Chez Paul - Martin Landstrom; Birds of Paradise - Ennio Mano
- 1 weeks ago11 min
Field Report for June 3, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! More information on swede midge https://blogs.cornell.edu/swedemidge/ More information on brassica downy mildew https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/crucifers-cole-crops/downy-mildew-on-cabbage/ More information on scouting onions for thrips https://youtu.be/VdoXseBqo5o?si=2kC0tr7IqW6GQfll https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1168.pdf More information about purple blotch and other diseases of alliums https://www.mofga.org/resources/fact-sheets/foliar-diseases-of-alliums/ More information about RNAi for Colorado potato beetle https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/sprayable-rna-pesticide-works-best-when-potato-beetles-are-small More information about URI's Laser Scarecrow Project https://sites.google.com/view/urilaserscarecrow/home
- 2 weeks ago26 min
Caleb discusses (phyto)toxic gases (feat. Kasi!)
Caleb Goossen (MOFGA) provides some practical guidance on understanding the good and bad byproducts of microbial activity, while we traverse current and historical approaches for capturing heat for indoor lettuce production. Listen to the full interview with Dr. Md Sazan Rahman about UNH's Manure Heating Project. Music: With the Homies, Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Mt. Fiji, Ryan James Carr; Una Noche en Lagos, El Flaco Collective
- 2 weeks ago10 min
Field Report for May 27, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! More information on scouting onions for thrips https://youtu.be/VdoXseBqo5o?si=2kC0tr7IqW6GQfll https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1168.pdf More information about garden springtails https://www.mofga.org/resources/fact-sheets/garden-springtails/ More information on epinasty https://u.osu.edu/greenhouse/tag/epinasty/ https://vegcropshotline.org/article/ethylene-damage-on-tomato-2/ More information on herbicide injury and persistent herbicides https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/synthetic-auxins https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/herbicide-carryover
- 3 weeks ago32 min
Tomato IPM Study Group: Pre Season Topics
Do you want to know more about where your tomatoes come from and the experts who are supporting our vegetable farmers to grow us the freshest, tastiest tomatoes possible, using the most economically & environmentally sustainable practices? Watch this video of large-scale processing tomato harvest. So neat! This discussion includes many pre-season topics including the economics of reflective mulch for management of pests & disease (including thrips that vector tomato spotted wilt virus) as well as an emerging pest impacting high tunnel tomato production, potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae. For the stone cold nerds, here's how to identify this aphid. Special thanks to Amanda Quadrel & Maria Cramer at Rutgers Cooperative Extension and Samantha Willden at Cornell AgriTech. Learn more about how federal and state funding provide expert support to our farmers to make pest management as environmentally and economically sustainable as possible by using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) tools & tactics. Music: With the Homies, Its a Good Day - Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Karmalot - Janset; Machete Dream - Speedy the Spider
- 3 weeks ago4 min
Field Report for May 20, 2026
I will be including brief field reports in the feed through the growing season, featuring real-time reports from extension specialists in New England, New York, and the mid-Atlantic states. Pay close attention to where some of these reports are coming from because we’ll be covering a wide region and please reach out if you need help connecting with your local extension specialist wherever you are. We’ll get you hooked up with the right expert in your area! More information on alium leafminer https://extension.psu.edu/allium-leaf-miner-on-track-to-emerge-in-early-april More information on identifying brassica pests https://lgpress.clemson.edu/publication/identification-of-common-insect-pests-of-brassica-crops/ More information on scouting onions for thrips https://youtu.be/VdoXseBqo5o?si=2kC0tr7IqW6GQfll https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/uploads/doc_1168.pdf Interactive Air Quality Map https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/?monitors=ozonepm&contours=ozone&xmin=-9064742.346057506&xmax=-7186225.938921513&ymin=4781064.352722573&ymax=5627375.12989582 More information about ozone damage on vegetable crops https://cvp.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=92 https://blogs.cornell.edu/livegpath/gallery/cucurbits/ozone-injury-in-cucurbit-crops/
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