Pest management advice for landscape management and nurseries
Dave Smitley, Entomology
September 19, 2008 -- We have just finished compiling our ratings of ash trees in East Lansing and Adrian, Michigan where we have been treating large, 12 to 15 inch dbh, ash trees to protect them from emerald ash borer as part of a research test on several new products. Read more.
Bert Cregg
Horticulture and Forestry
September 19, 2008 -- Our rapid shift from hot, dry weather around Labor Day, to the heavy rains of a week ago make forecasting Michigan’s fall color more dicey than usual. Read more.
Bert Cregg
Horticulture and Forestry
September 19, 2008 -- With football season in full swing and leaves about to turn color, we come to the sad realization that snow will be flying before too long. Landscape plants in Michigan face an array of environmental challenges, but it’s safe to say that winter is the toughest season for environmental, or abiotic, injuries. Read more. |
Jennie Stanger
MSUE Monroe County educator
September 19, 2008 -- The MSU Soil and Plant Nutrient Laboratory announced a price increase effective October 1. County Extension offices will receive a copy of the new schedule next week. Read more. Kevin Frank
Crop and Soil Sciences
September 19, 2008 -- The deluge of rain the state received last week has certainly revived turfgrass that had been struggling from dry conditions the previous six weeks. Now the challenge is catching up with the flush of growth the rain has produced. Read more.
Dennis Fulbright
Plant Pathology
September 19, 2008 -- In the December 2006 issue, the North Dakota State University extension service publication Tree Talk, (http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/whatnew/Tree_Talk_Newsletter.htm), authors Jim Walla (forest pathologist) and Kasia Kinzer (plant pest diagnostician), NDSU Department of Plant Pathology, report that a fungus, Stigmina lautii had been discovered on spruce in North Dakota. Read more.
Dennis Fulbright
Plant Pathology
September 19, 2008 -- Last week I was called by a resident of Charlotte (Eaton County) who was wondering if anyone knew why so many pine trees in his city were dying. I jumped in the car and went to see what he was talking about. In touring the area with him, I found that he was correct; large numbers of landscape Austrian, Scotch and red pine are diseased and many are dying. Read more.
Howard Russell, Diagnostic Services
September 19, 2008 -- Autumn is the time of year when we humbly and gratefully thank our lucky stars for surviving, though possibly not unscathed, the summer onslaught of biting insects, stinging insects and other annoying arthropods. Read more.
Vera Bitsch
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
September 19, 2008 -- Dismissal is the involuntary termination of an employee’s employment. Because emotions are often high, dismissals need to be handled with great care, or avoided. How can managers avoid dismissals? Read more. |
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