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Pest management advice for commercial vegetable production

Fusarium dry rot posing problems in potatoes
Willie Kirk and Phill Wharton, Plant Pathology

May 7, 2008 -- Fusarium dry rot is one of the most important diseases of potato, affecting tubers in storage and seed pieces after planting. Fusarium dry rot of seed tubers can reduce crop establishment by killing developing potato sprouts. Read more.

Irrigation for frost protection
Bill Steenwyk, MSUE educator

May 7, 2008 -- A farmer seeking to avoid crop loss from last week's freezing temperatures reported that in some fields, the irrigated areas received greater injury than plants along the borders where the sprinkler heads could not reach. Read more.

Civil rights in employment decisions
Vera Bitsch, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics

May 7, 2008 -- While many federal laws protecting equal employment opportunity exempt small businesses, Michigan laws do not. Michigan laws protect religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, marital status and disability. Read more.

Michigan centennial farms certification

May 7, 2008 -- For those that have questions arise concerning centennial farms, there is an excellent website to highlight the heritage of Michigan farms. Read more.

Advice for morel hunters
Leslie Johnson, MSU ANR Communications

May 7, 2008 -- Many people harvest morels who don’t hunt other mushrooms because morels are relatively easy to identify and there aren’t any other mushrooms that are easily confused with them. Read more.

The MSU IPM Program maintains this site as an access point to pest management information at MSU. The IPM Program is administered within the Department of Entomology, fueled by research from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, delivered to citizens through MSU Extension, and proud to be a part of Project GREEEN.
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