With the wet weather over the weekend, we have had moderate to high risk of Botrytis infection in fields which already had Botrytis present. If there was no Botrytis seen before this weekend in your field, it is unlikely there will be more disease now. Botrytis infection levels are affected by both temperature and length […]
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There were weather conditions that provided for some risk of Botrytis infection from the rain storms that came through from Thursday, May 28 to Friday, May 29. Please see the chart below for the risk in your area. IF you have already seen Botrytis in your field, then you may have more if you were […]
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Mummy Berry Disease in Hancock and Washington Counties The reports I have from around Washington county are there are drying up cups and no new viable pinheads being produced. Only a couple of sites have reported still seeing drying up cups. I think we are near the end of the mummy berry cup period this […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties There were conditions for mummy berry infection throughout this area overnight. Please see the chart below for times when infection periods started. Some start times are a bit uncertain due to some interrupted reports in cellular signal for the weather stations, but I am certain infection periods did occur in those […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties Localized rain has produced a mummy berry infection period overnight at our weather stations in Eastbrook, Aurora, and Deblois. Other locations did not have infection periods overnight. I suspect the rain forecast for today will produce infection periods in other fields today. If you have applied fungicides after May 9 to […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties I have heard from a variety of growers and sounds like cups are drying up in some areas BUT are still active with pinheads and mature spore-producing cups in other fields. Whether there are still cups in your field, likely depends upon how far along your field is and how much […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties I have had reports of cups and pinheads around various areas of Hancock and Washington counties on Thursday and Friday of last week (May 14 and 15), so I think there were still cups present in fields over this weekend in these areas. The cups are drying up and I suspect […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties Mature cups producing spores and pinheads are still being reported in areas around these counties. In some fields, the cups and pinheads appear to have dried up in the mummy berry plots, but I suspect there are still cups present in other areas of the field considering how widespread reports of […]
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Hancock and Washington Counties There were not long enough wet periods for mummy berry infection to have occurred from Tuesday, May 23 night to Wednesday, May 14 morning. There were infection periods in most areas starting on Saturday, May 9 night and another starting Monday, May 11 night, and in some fields starting on Sunday, […]
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Lincoln, Waldo and Knox Counties I have reports the cups have dried up in these areas and no new cups or pinheads are developing. There were conditions for an infection period overnight in these areas but I think it is unlikely that many fields had infections considering the fungus is probably done in most fields. […]
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