The creation and educational impact of a reciprocal travel exchange program for student groups in horticulture and allied sciences between ...

Anaphes iole Girault has been reported to parasitize Lygus lineolaris Palisot de Beauvois eggs in several crops but not in ...

Integrated peat management (IPM) strategies for control of apple scab and codling moth (Cydia pomonolla) were compared with a traditional ...

"Organic gardening" or "organic farming" is a term that has received a lot of media and consumer attention in recent ...

Pesticides can be valuable garden and home pest control tools but they must be selected and applied with personal and ...

Galls are distinctive swellings or abnormal growths of plant tissue caused by an attack of a living organism. Insects, mites, ...

Every pesticide is labeled with instructions on how to properly use the product. A label is the written, printed, or ...

Trees provide shelter and shade, help prevent erosion, and add beauty and monetary value to our property. Unfortunately, many factors ...

Este libro proporciona a los agricultores de habla hispana con información para usar los túneles altos, que aumenten la productividad ...

This has been the week of the fuzzy brown moths or FBMs (as entomologists not-so-technically call the hundreds of moth ...

The Iowa Bee Rule was established in June 1980 to protect honey bees in Iowa from unnecessary insecticide poisoning. This ...

Three years of experiments were conducted to help increase profit margins for apple growers, cope with new regulations on pesticide ...

Several ways to decrease grower reliance on chemicals in muskmelon production were studied.

Iowa growers have made strides in decreasing chemical use in their apple production. However, demands of the marketplace and regulatory ...

Growers receive nearly $3.5 million gross income from strawberry production in Iowa. Substitution of environmentally friendly, natural products and biological ...

Fifty-one commercial growers of apples, strawberries, tomatoes, and/or watermelons cooperated with Iowa State University (ISU) Extension specialists in a three-year ...

Day-neutral strawberries were planted on 17 and 18 May 1994 in sand loam soil (fine , loamy, mixed mesic, Typic ...

The trial was held at the Iowa State University Horticulture Farm. Day-neutral strawberries planted into plastic mulch in May 1992 ...

Strict grading standards require that fresh market apples be blemish-free. Consequently, Iowa orchardists are heavy users of synthetic chemical pesticides, ...

The trial was held at the Iowa State University Horticulture Farm in 1991. Day-neutral strawberries planted in May 1991 on ...