Cornell Vegetable Program

Serving Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans,Seneca, Wayne & Yates Counties

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Welcome to the Cornell Vegetable Program Home Page! Our mission: To provide vegetable producers, processors, and the vegetable industry with high quality educational programs and cutting edge research-based information so they can profitably produce and market safe and healthful vegetable crops in an environmentally sound manner. This will benefit consumers by supplying safe, high quality, locally grown vegetable products, while maintaining viable farms to enhance the rural landscape and economy of NY State.



		Downy Mildew Factsheet With Downy Mildew spreading across the state, here is an article from Mary Hausbeck at Michigan State University who has been battling this disease problem for several years now. Download the STATEWIDE DOWNY MILDEW SPRAYS RECOMMENDED (pdf) *2008 PestMinder* -15th Edition Don’t Miss out on Timely Pest Information! - Subscribe Now! PestMinder is a weekly newsletter produced locally by the six program staff of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Vegetable Program in Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates counties. Information provided weekly in PestMinder: Crop Updates for fresh market sweet corn, cabbage & other cole crops, tomatoes & peppers, vinecrops, potatoes, onions, peas, snap beans, processing sweet corn, beets, carrots, and dry beans Pest activity reports Corn (ECB, FAW, CEW) and onion (onion and seed corn maggot) trap catch reports Degree days to predict cabbage and onion maggot emergence and peak flights Late blight severity values for potatoes and tomatoes Botrytis leaf blight, downy mildew and purple blotch disease forecasting for onions Pest identification and life cycles Pesticide control recommendations Local weather summaries including growing degree days and rainfall Pesticide Updates Meeting Announcements Availability: 20 weeks from May until mid-September Receive via First class mail, same-day FAX or same-day email FAX and email are encouraged for speedier delivery Grower Comments:** ~ “most useful tool that Extension offers” PestMinder keeps us in touch with conditions in all crops” ~ “I saved at least one insecticide spray on my sweet corn after reading the corn borer populations were way down. Thank you!!” To subscribe to PestMinder: Print and complete this pdf form and enclose $40 if enrolled in Cornell Vegetable Program of Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates counties; $100 if not enrolled in one of these counties, and return completed form to: Christy Hoepting PestMinder subscription 12690 Rte. 31, Albion, NY 14411 Checks should be payable to Cornell Cooperative Extension

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