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Blueberry Advisory Committee Research Report, H Y. Forsythe Jr, Judith A. Collins, David Lambert, John M. Smagula, Tom Degomez, Susan Erich, Mike Goltz, Joan M. King, Rodney J. Bushway, Alfred A. Bushway, Paul R. Hepler, David E. Yarborough, Delmont C. Emerson, Michele Marra

Wild Blueberry Research Reports

The 1988 edition of the Blueberry Advisory Committee Research Reports was prepared for the Maine Wild Blueberry Commission and the University of Maine Wild Blueberry Advisory Committee by researchers with the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station and Maine Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Maine, Orono. Projects in this report include:

1. Monitoring methods, economic injury levels, and action thresholds for blueberry spanworm larvae in vegetative year fields.

2. Control of secondary blueberry pests

3. Control of blueberry maggot

4. Effect of pruning practices on blueberry insect abundance

5. Survey of Fungi Contaminating Lowbush Blueberries

6. Nutrition Survey 1988

7. …

G89-925 'Helminthosporium' Leaf Spot And Melting Out Diseases Of Turfgrass (Revised December 1995), John E. Watkins, Roch E. Gaussoin, Terrance P. Riordan

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Symptoms and controls for "Helminthosporium" leaf spot and melting out are discussed.

Leaf spot and melting out are two fungal diseases of turfgrass within the "Helminthosporium" leaf, crown and root disease complex. They are the most common and serious groups of cool season turfgrass diseases in North America.

G89-931 Alfalfa Anthracnose, John E. Watkins, Bruce Anderson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Symptoms, disease cycle and control of alfalfa anthracnose are discussed here.

Forage crops are grown on and harvested from more acres in Nebraska than any other crop. Of the almost 49 million acres of agricultural land in Nebraska, approximately 24 million acres are in hay. Alfalfa production has stabilized at about two million acres.

High feed and forage production costs and periodic droughts have generated increased concern by farmers and ranchers over forage losses from diseases, insects and environmental stresses. Estimates suggest about one-fourth of the U.S. alfalfa hay crop and one-tenth of the seed crop are lost annually to …