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Guides

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New England Vegetable Management Guide

This is a comprehensive guide for commercial vegetable growers with information on current production and pest management techniques for vegetable crops.

Northeast Vegetable and Strawberry Pest Identification Guide

A 55 page comprehensive pest identification guide that can be carried to the field to better identify pests and select appropriate management measures. It contains color photos of all of the insects, diseases, and weeds that are described in the regions various Vegetable Management Recommendations, including photos of weeds at the seedling stage and disease symptoms on different crops.

Cucurbit Disease Scouting and Management Guide

The goal of this handbook is to help growers identify the diseases they see in their cucurbit crops, use preventative practices as effectively as possible, and develop a more complete understanding of how to design a spray program to address all these different diseases.

Sweet Corn IPM Guide

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a systematic approach to pest management that considers all factors affecting crop health, including plant nutrition, horticultural practices, and all suitable means of pest suppression.

Nutrient Management Guide for New England Vegetable Production

This manual is intended to help the reader understand more about soils—some of the basics about what happens in the soil and how it impacts crops, and also to offer some insight on soil and nutrient management practices and how they affect soils, crop productivity and profit.


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Publications

  • Vegetable Notes
  • New England Vegetable Management Guide
  • Northeast Vegetable and Strawberry Pest Identification Guide
  • Cucurbit Disease Scouting & Management Guide
  • Sweet Corn IPM Scouting Guide & Record Keeping Book
  • Nutrient Management Guide for New England Vegetable Production

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