Crops

Author(s) Karen Delahaut, Walt Stevenson.  Bacterial spot and speck are found wherever tomatoes or peppers are grown. On occasion, these diseases ...

Author(s) Scott Sanford, John Panuska. Micro irrigation has numerous advantages over sprinkler irrigation and can be used in greenhouses, orchard...

Author(s) Jed Colquhoun. This manual provides an objective analysis of organic weed management strategies, based on peer-reviewed and published ap...

Author(s) K. A. Delahaut, A. C. Newenhouse. Salad greens provide market gardeners with a high-value crop that brings a premium price if grown and...

Author(s) K. A. Delahaut, A. C. Newenhouse. Growing vine crops such as pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, gourds, and squash is an excellent way to bri...

Author(s) K. A. Delahaut, A. C. Newenhouse. This highly detailed, publication is packed with practical information for organic and conventional gr...

Author(s) Dan Undersander, Jim Morrison, Ellen Phillips, Richard Leep, Paul Peterson, Craig Sheaffer. Buying Horse Hay debunks the myths surroundi...

Author(s) Christelle Guédot, Janet van Zoeren. In the summer of 2016, the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) was detected for the first time in agr...

Author(s) P. S. McManus, M. F. Heimann Sooty blotch and flyspeck are separate diseases that often occur together on apple and pear fruit during l...

Author(s) Brian R. Smith, Daniel L. Mahr, Patricia S. McManus, Teryl R. Roper. A variety of raspberries-black, purple, and yellow as well as red-c...

Author(s) Teryl R. Roper, Daniel L. Mahr, Patricia S. McManus. Apricot, cherry, peach, and plum trees produce some of the tastiest fruit available...

Author(s) Christelle Guédot, Jed Colquhoun, Glenn Nice, Leslie Holland. Revised March 2024. The latest recommendations for disease, insect, and wee...

Author(s) Karen Delahaut, Walt Stevenson. Fusarium and Verticillium wilts once routinely devastated tomato crops. However, the availability of res...

Author(s) Karen Delahaut, Walt Stevenson. Environmental factors can affect the look—and sometimes the flavor—of developing tomato fruits. Because ...

Author(s) Carrie M. Laboski, Kevin Shelley. The soil fertility guidelines contained in this publication help Wisconsin graziers maintain an adequ...

This four-part series describes how to make quality forage in horizontal silos. Topics include preparation, packing, covering and feed out. (2013;...

Author(s) Dan Undersander, Craig Grau, Dennis Cosgrove, Jerry Doll, Neal Martin. As alfalfa stands age and thin, the primary question becomes: is ...

Author(s) Susan E. Rice Mahr, Raymond A. Cloyd, Daniel L. Mahr, Clifford S. Sadof. Greenhouse managers wage ongoing battles with insect pests. Thi...

Author(s) Amaya Atucha, Janet van Zoeren. Monitoring fruit ripening is a critical step in determining the optimal time to harvest grapes to ensure...

Author(s) C. F. Koval, S. W. Binnie. The eastern tent caterpillar is native to North America, and records of its existence go back as far as 1646....

Author(s) Christopher Anderson, Diane Mayerfeld. The drought has left many Wisconsin growers short on forage to feed their animals. As a consequen...

Author(s) Amanda Gevens, Jaime Wilbur. Late blight affects a variety of plants in the Solanaceae family but is best known for its destruction of ...

Author(s) Annie Deutsch, Christelle Guédot. Plum curculio, a beetle native to the midwestern United States, is one of the most common and detrimen...

Author(s) Teryl R. Roper. Plant growth regulators (PGRs) can be used with some precision for thinning fruit, regulating growth, and adjusting har...

Author(s) Teryl R. Roper, Gary G. Frank. Apple production can be a financially and emotionally rewarding venture. However, a desire to grow fruit...

Author(s) Dan Undersander, Ray Antoniewicz. Save money and raise healthier horses by improving the pastures they graze on. This 8-page publication...

Author(s) Jed Colquhoun. Residual herbicides are those that continue to control weeds for some time after application. Residual herbicides extend ...

Author(s) K. A. Delahaut, A. C. Newenhouse. This publication is packed with practical information for organic and conventional growers, and it's t...

Author(s) Karen Delahaut, Walt Stevenson. Angular leaf spot is a bacterial disease that can be economically damaging to cucumbers, honeydew melon,...

Author(s) Karen Delahaut, Walt Stevenson. Phytophthora blight is a fungal disease capable of completely destroying zucchini, pumpkin, summer squas...

Author(s) Amanda Gevens, Jaime Wilbur. Late blight can result in complete destruction of tomato crops if left unmanaged. Learn about the symptoms...

Author(s) Karen Delahaut, Walt Stevenson. Both early blight and Septoria leaf spot are potentially serious diseases that affect the leaves, stems,...

Author(s) Geoffrey Siemering, Matthew Ruark, Amanda Gevens. Trichoderma are fungi found worldwide that grow in and around plant roots and can incr...

Author(s) Geoffrey Siemering, Matthew Ruark, Amanda Gevens. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (BAA) is a bacterium found in soil ecosystems worldwide tha...

Author(s) Geoffrey Siemering, Matthew Ruark, Francisco Arriaga, Erin Silva, Heidi Johnson. Many important field crops can benefit from an associat...

Author(s) P. S. McManus. Black Root Rot is one of the most common problems affecting strawberries in commercial plantings and in the home garden. ...