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Insect Management

Feb 10, 2021

Lettuce Aphids Showing Up Early Again
Jan 27, 2021

Avoid Seed Corn Maggots in Spring Melons
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
May 27, 2020

Weeds Can Influence Insect Management in Produce
May 13, 2020

Twospotted Spider Mites on Melons 2020
Apr 29, 2020

Whiteflies Management on Spring Melons 2020
Apr 15, 2020

Proposed Changes in Neonicotinoid Labels Should Have Minor Impact on Desert Produce and Melons
Apr 1, 2020

Liriomyza Leafminer Management on Spring Melon
Mar 4, 2020

Lettuce Aphid Spreading
Feb 19, 2020

Pest Activity in Desert Produce
Feb 5, 2020

Prepare for Seed Corn Maggots in Spring Melons

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

Feb 10, 2021

Shepperdspurse
Jan 27, 2021

Contact Herbicides
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
May 27, 2020

Preharvest Weed Control in Wheat grown in Rotation with Vegetables 2020
May 13, 2020

Prohibited Noxious Weeds
Apr 29, 2020

Dodder 2020
Apr 15, 2020

Summer Fallow Weed Control
Apr 1, 2020

Earning Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) Remotely
Mar 4, 2020

Summer Annual Grass Identification March 3rd 2020
Feb 19, 2020

Alternatives to Glyphosate for Use Around Fields
Feb 5, 2020

New Regulations for Handling Paraquat

Plant Diagnostics

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
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
May 27, 2020

Virus Transmission: Part III
May 13, 2020

Virus Transmission: Part II
Apr 29, 2020

Virus Transmission: Part I
Apr 15, 2020

Virus 101
Apr 1, 2020

Botrytis Plant Diseases During Pandemic
Mar 4, 2020

Botrytis Crown Rot of Lettuce
Feb 19, 2020

New player in Lettuce Dieback disease: Lettuce Dieback Associated Virus
Feb 5, 2020

Late Blight of Celery

Mechanization

Feb 10, 2021

Autonomous Ag Robots – Current Status Update
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

Feb 10, 2021

Areawide Insect Trapping Network (February 10, 2021)
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