Small Fruits

Vegetable and Fruit News-2024 (Volume 15, Issue 9)

This webpage is the production archives of the Women In Agriculture webinars.

A list of meetings for fruit and vegetable growers.

A list of meetings for Urban Agriculture growers.

Common Fruit Herbicides*

Fruit and Vegetable News, Volume 12, Issue 2 (May 13, 2021)

IpM Scouting Tips posted in the Fruit and Vegetable News.

There exists a lack of control efficacy information to enable decision-making about which organic insecticide product works best for a given insect pest. Here we summarize results of 153 field trials on the control efficacy of common active ingredients in organic insecticides against groups of the most difficult to control insect pests. The performance of organic products Entrust (spinosad), Azera (pyrethrin and azadirachtin), PyGanic (pyrethrin) and Neemix (azadirachtin) varied widely among pest groups, as well as among pest species within a group, providing an overall reduction in pest infestations by 73.9%, 61.7%, 48.6% and 46.1%, respectively.

A few blueberry and cherry growers in central Maryland have reported fruit damage to their crop from Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) this week. If you grow any small fruit such as blueberries, cherries, blackberries, raspberries it would be best if you check these crops for the presence of SWD.

The invasive spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) is the key insect pest of soft-skinned fruit across the United States. With the recent wet weather, we have been experiencing higher than normal spotted wing drosophila (SWD) pressure.