Weed Management

Multi-fruit orchard spray program for the control of major tree fruit pests and diseases.

Agronomy Newsletter -May 2024, Volume 15, Issue 2. Topics include:

Agronomy News is a statewide newsletter for farmers, consultants, researchers, and educators interested in grain and row crop forage production systems. The topics for this edition are

Take a look at the research happening here at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center in Upper Marlboro (CMREC-UM). Even though we are one of the smallest Research and Education Centers (RECs) in the State, our scope of research is quite vast.  Here at CMREC-UM you will find research on agronomy, cover crops, forestry, horticulture, irrigation, livestock, water quality and more.

Agronomy News-October 2022, Volume 13, Issue 7. Topics in this issue are Survey of the Most Common and Troublesome Weeds, Farm Emergency Action Plan, Preparing for 2023: Small Grains Disease Management, Maryland Accepting Proposals for 2023 Animal Waste Technology Fund, Scouting For Ear and Stalk Rots in Corn, Keep An Eye On Nitrogen Fertilizer Prices, Grain Market Report, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.

Roots in Research - Yield of 2019 - Upper Marlboro CMREC

A variety of information on commercial Bramble production including organic production, pest and weed management, frost and freeze prevention, and more.

By now almost all growers have started transplant production or have hired someone else to grow their transplants. With all of the important things that go into transplant production one of the sanitation factors that is somewhat neglected is weed control. Figure 1 shows the outside edge of a high tunnel production house in February. The grower was getting ready to drop seed in just a few days after they cleaned up the house from the fall growing season. This particular grower had been having intermittent problems with thrips (and consequently tomato spotted wilt virus) and two spotted spider mites in their production house.