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Insect Management

May 5, 2021

Summer Sanitation Is Important as Ever
Apr 21, 2021

Whitefly Management on Spring Melons 2021
Apr 7, 2021

Spider Mites on Spring Melons 2021
Mar 24, 2021

Insecticide Modes of Action and Resistance Management 2021
Mar 10, 2021

Late-season Thrips Management in Lettuce
Feb 24, 2021

Spring Pest Activity in Desert Produce
Feb 10, 2021

Lettuce Aphids Showing Up Early Again
Jan 27, 2021

Avoid Seed Corn Maggots in Spring Melons
Dec 9, 2020

Weather Can Influence Desert Insect Pest Abundance and Activity
Nov 11, 2020

Weather Breaking, But Don’t Relax Yet
Oct 28, 2020

Time for Seasonal Aphid Movement into the Desert
Oct 14, 2020

Be Prepared for Corn Earworm in Lettuce
Sep 30, 2020

Don’t Forget to Rotate Chemistries when Fighting Beet Armyworm
Sep 2, 2020

Let The 2020 Produce Season Begin
Aug 19, 2020

Diamondback Moth on Fall Cole Crops
Aug 5, 2020

Summary of 2019-20 Insecticide Usage on Arizona Lettuce
Jul 22, 2020

Management Guidelines for Whiteflies and CYSDV on Fall Melons in 2020
Jul 8, 2020

Sanitation and Preparing for Fall Plantings
Jun 24, 2020

Do Antimicrobial Water Sanitizers Affect Insecticide Efficacy in Produce?
Jun 10, 2020

Ten Years of Bagrada Bug on Desert Cole Crops

Disease

Dec 11, 2019

High Threat Level for Downy Mildew
Nov 27, 2019

Plant Pathogen Resistance to Fungicides - Nov, 2019
Nov 13, 2019

Effect of Weather on Plant Disease Development
Oct 29, 2019

Downy Mildew 2019
Oct 16, 2019

Comparison of Two Lettuce Wilt diseases
Oct 2, 2019

Fusarium Wilt of Lettuce 2019
Sep 18, 2019

Managing Sclerotinia Drop of Lettuce With Fungicides 2019
Sep 4, 2019

Soil-borne Lettuce Pathogens - Sep, 2019
Aug 21, 2019

Plant Produced Chemicals Help Keep Diseases in Check - 2019
Aug 7, 2019

Survival of Plant Pathogens in The Desert
Jul 24, 2019

Summer soil flooding as a management tool for Sclerotinia lettuce drop 2019
Jul 10, 2019

Soil Solarization: A Management Tool for Lettuce Fusarium Wilt
Jun 26, 2019

Sudden Wilt and Death of Melon Plants 2019
Jun 12, 2019

Melon Powdery Mildew 2019
May 29, 2019

Comparing Fungicides for Lettuce Powdery Mildew Management
May 15, 2019

Comparison of Melon Powdery Mildew Fungicides
May 1, 2019

Melon Powdery Mildew - 2019
Apr 17, 2019

Lettuce Powdery Mildew Fungicides Evaluated
Apr 3, 2019

The Ups and Downs of Downy Mildew Severity
Mar 20, 2019

Gray Mold -2019

Weeds

May 5, 2021

Clover
Apr 21, 2021

Summer Fallow Weed Control 2021-2
Apr 7, 2021

Summer Fallow Weed Control 2021-1
Mar 24, 2021

Malva
Mar 10, 2021

The Transition from Winter to Summer Weeds
Feb 24, 2021

Carryover of Vegetable Herbicides to Wheat Grown in Rotation
Feb 10, 2021

Shepperdspurse
Jan 27, 2021

Contact Herbicides
Dec 9, 2020

Herbicide Resistance
Nov 11, 2020

Goal Preemergence, Postemergence and Chemigated
Oct 28, 2020

Using Multiple Preplant Herbicides in Lettuce
Oct 14, 2020

Seedling Emergence After Applying Preemergence Herbicides
Sep 30, 2020

Visibility of Weeds
Sep 2, 2020

Perennial Problems with Common Purslane
Aug 19, 2020

Managing Water with Preemergence Herbicides in Lettuce
Aug 5, 2020

Marestail and Fleabane
Jul 22, 2020

Sptangletop 2020
Jul 8, 2020

Measuring Herbicide Volatility
Jun 24, 2020

Why is Off-target Movement of Dicamba and 2,4-D Not a Major Problem in Arizona?
Jun 10, 2020

Puncturevine 2020

Plant Diagnostics

May 5, 2021

Fusarium wilt of Watermelon 2021
Apr 21, 2021

Ornamental hosts of INSV
Apr 7, 2021

Bacterial Fruit Blotch (BFB) in Melon Seedlings 2021
Mar 24, 2021

Wrapping Up 2020/2021 Growing Season
Mar 10, 2021

INSV in Yuma
Feb 24, 2021

Downy Mildew of Lettuce 2021
Feb 10, 2021

New Player in Lettuce Dieback Disease: Lettuce Dieback Associated Virus 2021
Jan 27, 2021

Bacterial Leaf Spot on Cilantro and Parsley 2021
Dec 9, 2020

Bacterial Leaf Spot
Nov 11, 2020

Damping Off in Spinach
Oct 28, 2020

DIY testing: Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV)
Oct 14, 2020

Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus
Sep 30, 2020

Disease of Cole crops
Sep 2, 2020

2020 Powdery Mildew of melon Fungicide Trial
Aug 19, 2020

2020 Downy Mildew of Spinach Fungicide Trial
Aug 5, 2020

2019-2020 Sclerotinia Drop of Lettuce Fungicide Trial
Jul 22, 2020

2019-2020 Powdery Mildew of Lettuce Fungicide Trial
Jul 8, 2020

2010-2020 Downy Mildew of Lettuce Fungicide Trial
Jun 24, 2020

Fusarium Wilt of Watermelon
Jun 10, 2020

Weed Hosts of Plant Viruses

Mechanization

May 5, 2021

Spot Sprayers – An Option for Reducing Pesticide Application Costs?
Apr 7, 2021

Technology Needs for Automated
Mar 24, 2021

Computational Agriculture - Alphabet’s (Google) Latest X-Project
Mar 10, 2021

Controlling Disease and Weeds with Band-Steam – Yuma Trials Show Good Promise
Feb 24, 2021

Advances in Weed Control Technologies – Breakout Session at 2021 Southwest Ag Summit
Feb 10, 2021

Autonomous Ag Robots – Current Status Update
Dec 9, 2020

Zapping Weeds with High Voltage Electricity
Nov 11, 2020

2020 Advances in Automated Thinning and Weeding Technologies Update #3
Oct 28, 2020

2020 Advances in Automated Thinning and Weeding Technologies Update #2
Oct 14, 2020

2020 Advances in Automated Thinning and Weeding Technologies Update #1
Sep 30, 2020

Controlling Fusarium Wilt of Lettuce Using Steam Heat – Trial Initiated
Aug 5, 2020

Crop Signaling: A Promising Technique for Improved Automated Weed Control
Jul 22, 2020

Automated Lettuce Thinner Effects on Weed Control
Jul 8, 2020

Robotic and Automated Technologies for In-Row Weeding in Vegetable Crops
Jun 24, 2020

Band-Steam Applicator for Controlling Soilborne Pathogens and Weeds in Lettuce
Jun 10, 2020

Video: Band-Steam Applicator for Controlling Soilborne Pathogens and In-Row Weeds
May 27, 2020

Point Injection – A Low Disturbance System for Delivering Soil Applied Pesticides
May 13, 2020

Check out the following videos on Precision Cultivation Technology and High Speed Centimeter Scale Resolution Sprayers
Apr 29, 2020

Precision Cultivating Technologies for Improved Weed Control
Apr 15, 2020

High Speed Centimeter Scale Resolution Sprayers for Precision Weed Control in Vegetable Crops

Areawide Insect Trapping Network

Mar 24, 2021

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (March 24, 2021)
Mar 10, 2021

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (March 10, 2021)
Feb 24, 2021

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (February 24, 2021)
Feb 10, 2021

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (February 10, 2021)
Nov 11, 2020

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (November 11, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (October 28, 2020)
Oct 14, 2020

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (October 14, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (September 30, 2020)
Apr 1, 2020

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (April 1, 2020)
Apr 3, 2019

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (April 3, 2019)
Mar 20, 2019

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (March 20, 2019)
Mar 6, 2019

Area wide Insect Trapping Network for Mar 6, 2019
Mar 21, 2018

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (March 21, 2018)
Sep 18, 2013

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (September 18, 2013)

Biometeorology

Dec 11, 2019

Leaf Wetness Network - Dec 11, 2019
Nov 27, 2019

Leaf Wetness Network - Nov 27, 2019
Nov 13, 2019

Leaf Wetness Network - Nov 13, 2019
Oct 2, 2019

Leaf Wetness Network - Oct 2, 2019
Sep 18, 2019

Leaf Wetness Network - Sep, 18 2019
Sep 4, 2019

Leaf Wetness Network - Sep 4, 2019
Aug 21, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Aug 21, 2019
Aug 7, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Aug 7, 2019
Jul 24, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Jul 24, 2018
Jul 10, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Jul 10, 2019
Jun 26, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Jun 26, 2019
Jun 12, 2019

Leaf Wetness Network - Jun 12, 2019
May 29, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - May 29, 2019
May 15, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - May 15, 2019
May 1, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - May 1, 2019
Apr 17, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Apr 17, 219
Apr 3, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Apr 3, 2019
Mar 20, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Mar 20, 2019
Mar 6, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Mar 6, 2019
Feb 6, 2019

Leaf Wetness Update - Feb 6, 2019