Weed Management for Vegetable Crops

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Taylor in Farming Practices, Farming Resources, Internet Resources, Management, Pest Control, Webinar // 0 Comments

Weed Management for Vegetable Crops Webinar from UMass Extension

Join the UMass Extension Vegetable Program for our final spring twilight meeting – Weed Management for Vegetable Crops – this Wednesday, June 24, 2020 from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. This week’s topic is:

Weed Management for Vegetable Crops with Bryan Brown, Integrated Weed Management Specialist from New York State IPM Program

Stop drowning in weeds! Use their biology against them. Setup a cultivator to maximize effectiveness. Find low-cost ways to integrate mulch. We will discuss some weed management techniques for organic and conventional systems alike and will have plenty of time for Q&A.

1 pesticide recertification credit is available.

How to join: Click here to register and receive the sign-in information.

To view past workshops, visit the virtual twilight meetings page here: https://ag.umass.edu/vegetable/resources-services/virtual-twilight-meetings

Past topics include:

Organic insecticides
Early Season Pest Scouting
Greenhouse Fertigation
COVID-19 Marketing Adaptations
Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting
COVID-19 Business Relief

The UMass Extension Vegetable team is a multidisciplinary group including specialists in sustainable vegetable production, cover crops and soil fertility, IPM and organic management of weeds, insects and diseases, disease diagnostics, plant breeding, development of new crops especially for ethnic and immigrant communities (http://worldcrops.org/), education of new and immigrant farmers, and marketing. They work with other New England Vegetable Extension programs to produce the New England Vegetable Management Guide (http://nevegetable.org/). With this group and the New England Vegetable and Berry Growers Association, we organize the New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference (http://newenglandvfc.org/), the region’s premier conference for vegetable producers, as well as other educational programs. They conduct on-farm research and demonstrations as well as applied research at the University of Massachusetts Crops Research and Education Center in South Deerfield Massachusetts. We publish Vegetable Notes, which provides growers with weekly information throughout the growing season on pest and crop conditions, IPM techniques and recommendations.