Dennis Van Dyk interviewed Steve Johnson, from the University of Maine, about potato seed piece handling from spud to bud. How do seed age, size, and storage conditions affect your final stand, and what disease prevention options work best? Steve is a true master of his material, and was a pleasure to interview. You can see more of Steve's work on potatoes through the University of Maine pesticide credit system . This is website is technically for pesticide applicators in Maine, but don't have t...
Apr 29, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Natalie Hoidal will be interviewing Steve Poppe and Nate Dalman of the University of Minnesota. Is plastic mulch a key part of your farm that you wish you could ditch? Natalie will get the scoop on possible alternatives to plastic mulch, including non-living mulches and cover crops. Here is a synopsis of Steve Poppe's research on biodegradable plastics in strawberries: https://blog-fruit-vegetable-ipm.extension.umn.edu/2019/02/developing-annual-day-neutral.html Here is an article about Nate Dalm...
Apr 21, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Ben Werling interviewed Cheryl Trueman, who works with Ontario tomato growers at the University of Guelph. Flex your epidemiology muscles-on a non-Covid subject-as we chat about bacterial diseases of tomatoes-how they spread, and what you can do to slow them down. Do tomato plants need to mask up? Cheryl has an article that summarizes much of what we talked about today. https://onvegetables.com/2019/06/06/managing-bacterial-spot-in-ontario-tomatoes-updated-best-management-practices-for-field-pro...
Apr 15, 2021•38 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Ben Phillips interviewed Steve Bogash, of Marrone Bio Innovations, and Dan Egel, vegetable pathologist at Purdue. They discussed a special group of fungicides that work inside of the plant to "turn on" their own natural chemical defenses against pathogens. They go by many names, including Plant Activators, Plant Defense Regulators, and Defense Activators. Theme music for this episode, Go Plant Activators!, was a topical parody of Go Go Power Rangers by Ron Wasserman. Parody lyrics and performanc...
Apr 07, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Ben Werling interviewed Jason Deveau (@spray_guy), from the Ontario Ministry of Farms and Rural Affairs, about ways to avoid frustration when starting up your sprayer for the first time. Jason is also one of the hot shot founders and content producers for sprayers101.com , a great place to learn about all things sprayed!...
Apr 02, 2021•44 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This week Katie King interviewed Mohammad Babadoost, from the University of Illinois, and Fracensca Rotondo, from The Ohio State University, about seed treatments for vegetables. Here is the OSU guide to hot water seed treatment. Law and Order: Seed Unit written by Ben Phillips. Performed by Ben Phillips and Mike Reinke.
Mar 26, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Matt Kleinhenz interviewed Jud Reid about spring time transitional hoophouse production decisions. Both Matt and Jud have a ton of experience with this, and tackled lots of great questions! Boys' Hood Greenhouses bit by Ben Phillips.
Mar 18, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This week Ben Phillips interviewed Liz Maynard, Wenjing Guan, and Lori Hoagland about their work on organic transplant media for starting vegetable seeds. Here are a few things they left us with. Growing Media for Productive Transplants - Indiana Small Farms Conference 2021 Organic Growing Media – How Can it Affect the Health of My Transplants - eOrganic webinar December 2020 Organic Potting Mix Basics, M. Wander, U of I - eOrganic resource node. Jumping worms, Bradley Herrick, Ecologist/Researc...
Mar 12, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Natalie Hoidal rejoined Annalisa Hultberg, from the University of Minnesota, and Amanda Byler, from Great Lakes Bay Health Centers, to catch up on COVID-related lessons learned on farms through 2020. Get vaccinated if you get a chance. Communicate openly and respectfully with your employees. Hopes without a plan are just a wish.
Mar 04, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 1
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Nov 11, 2020•2 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Ben Werling and Florencia Colella interview Benita Meekhof, from the Farm Service Agency about CFAP 2, the renewed and modified COVID-19 support program that specialty crop growers definitely need to check out. Visit farmers.gov/cfap/specialty , call your FSA office, and apply by December 11!
Oct 09, 2020•12 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Here is a compilation of all the sponsor ads from the 2020 season. Wow, it's nearly 12 minutes long! 00:25 Miracle Carp 01:15 Larry's Leaning Pumpkins 01:59 Half-Baked High Tunnels 03:35 The Dissipation Station 04:16 The Bubble 05:04 The Letter B 05:23 Macro Bio Bros 06:30 Brassica No. 5 07:03 Bobby's Cobby Lobby and Sweet Corn Emporium Multi-Purpose Fishing Corn 08:44 A World Without Lorsban [TRAILER] 09:33 WBIN The Bin For real though, the North Central Integrated Pest Management Center and US...
Sep 24, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 19
We're in the final stretch for pumpkin season, with market demand increasing in mid-September through the end of October. We have Brad Bergefurd and Nathan Johanning on this week to calm your jitters, and answer your questions about what can and can't be done at this point in the season. This year both University of Illinois and The Ohio State University offered virtual field days for their pumpkin variety trials. See those at the links below! 2020 Illinois Pumpkin Virtual Field Day https://exte...
Sep 02, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 18
How can growers living with this devastating disease of cucurbits, peppers and tomatoes produce a harvestable crop? We invited Dr. Christine Smart to discuss this perplexing pathogen. Dr. Smart works on the "Phytophthora farm " at Cornell University, land which is dedicated to researching solutions growers can use to deal with this disease.
Aug 26, 2020•59 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Chlorpyrifos pesticide registrations are on their way out, due to human health risks. What will fill the gaps for key pests and vegetable crops? Our guests are Brian Nault , Faruque Zaman, and Dan Gilrein of Cornell University. Summary of regulatory actions for chlorpyrifos at EPA The Brassica Pest Collaborative Growers can also send a request in via the IR-4 website to petition for a needed pesticide (organic or conventional) use for onion maggot, cabbage maggot or any other pests/diseases/weed...
Aug 22, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Bells are boring! This is a show for those seeking hot head and ethnic markets with peppers that make tongues sizzle. Our guests are Ben Phillips, from MSU, and Charlie Rohwer, from University of Minnesota. Trial results can be found at bit.ly/mwvegtrials
Aug 13, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 15
It's not fun, but we need to get it done! What's the difference between cleaning and sanitizing? What are clean breaks, and how do they fit in with cleaning and sanitizing? How should postharvest practices change given novel coronavirus? Melanie Ivey (OSU) and Amanda Deering (Purdue) joined us to talk about food safety in the packinghouse. Here is the EPA List N of disinfectants that can be used against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/list-n-disinfectants-use-ag...
Aug 05, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Our guests are Celeste Welty, from OSU, and Laura Ingwell, from Purdue. Today, we will be chewing the cob about wormageddon in sweet corn. We spent some time on trapping. Nothing beats the data collected from your own trap in your own field. But, there are a number of efforts to collect trapping data in a way grower's can reference. Here are a few in our region. Great Lakes and Maritimes Pest Monitoring Network 2020 . This is an international trapping effort focused mainly on Western Bean Cutwor...
Jul 29, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Our guests are Marisol Quintanilla, from MSU, and Sam Wortman, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We talked about cover crops that can be planted after an early-harvested vegetable, and into the fall. Are you covered?
Jul 23, 2020•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Our guests were Ron Goldy, from MSU, and Lyndon Kelley, from MSU/Purdue talking about irrigation setups for vegetables from sources to sprinklers. Visit https://www.canr.msu.edu/irrigation/ for more information on Specialty Crops irrigation. Specialty Crops Information Videos Irrigation Overview - Lyndon Kelley - https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/1_81hubozs Moisture Sensors - Dr. Younsuk Dong - https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/1_t6dgpqwu Trickle Irrigation Presentation - Phil Ausra of TRICKL-EEZ ...
Jul 16, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Our guest is Matt Kleinhenz, from OSU. One of Matt's recent lines of study has been on plant-health enhancing microbial products. There tends to be a lot of confusion in this arena with new terms, claims, and a rapidly evolving industry. So, we have invited Matt to help us get it all straight. You can catch up with Matt's work on his Bugs in a Jug website.
Jul 08, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Our guests are Carl Rosen, from the University of Minnesota, and Dan Egel, from Purdue. Carl's research and outreach program is concerned with plant nutrition and nutrient management with particular emphasis on commercial vegetable and fruit crop production. Dan focuses on disease control in vegetable crops. We spoke to them today about what Boron does for plants, and what uses are advisable. Preventing disease? Killing weeds? Ensuring proper nutrition? Foliar or soil-applied?
Jul 01, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Meg McGrath, the Mildew Guru from Cornell, spoke with us today to talk all about powdery mildew in vine crops! Meg has spent a career learning how pathogens survive between crops, investigating factors that favor disease development, evaluating fungicides and resistant varieties, developing scouting protocols and action thresholds for timing the initiation of fungicide applications after disease detection. Here is the main page of resources that Meg has put together on this topic. https://www.ve...
Jun 25, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Hindsight is 20/20 when it comes to pest problems when a missed management opportunity passes. What information can help you get ahead of the curve? And what does it all mean? Our guests today are Dan Egel , vegetable pathologist from Purdue, Keith Mason , entomologist and Enviroweather station network manager from Michigan State University, and Cheryl Trueman , vegetable pathologist from the University of Guelph in Ontario. Together we discuss the weather tools available to growers for predicti...
Jun 19, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Our first guest today is Lina Rodriguez-Salamanca , Extension Plant Pathologist and Diagnostician, at Iowa State University. In the ISU Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic, Lina focuses her efforts on disease diagnosis and its importance in disease management and IPM implementation. Our second guest is Kyle Broderick from the University of Nebraska Extension. As the Plant and Pest Diagnostics Extension Educator, Kyle coordinates the Plant & Pest Diagnostic Clinic we can help diagnose plant di...
Jun 11, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Today’s episode is HOOPHOUSE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT. Our first guest today is Judson Reid, Extension Vegetable Specialist, at Cornell University. Judson focuses on cultural practices, small farm operations and season extension techniques. Our second guest is David Van Eeckhout from The Good Acre food hub in St. Paul, Minnesota. As The Good Acre’s Grower Support Specialist, David combines his experience in farming and business to help their network of farmers be sustainable both financially and in t...
Jun 04, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Brad Bergefurd and Nathan Johanning are both Extension Educators based in the southern tier counties of Ohio and Illinois. They also both raise pumpkins as personal businesses. Together we will discuss planting time decisions to hit your target markets for conventional and strip-till/no-till systems. Nathan talked about a no-till transplanter, and pictures of his and another type can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KIpvlYrmCshsyOLM8Iax0yT_XVwva8ky?usp=sharing...
May 28, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Our guests today were Dan Brainard, Professor of Horticulture at MSU, and Stephen Meyers, Weed Scientist at Purdue University. Dan’s recent work focuses on using seedbed prep, mechanical weeders, and cover crops for weed control. Stephen focuses on helping vegetable growers using herbicides safely and effectively, as well as testing new products. How can growers prepare a seedbed to start off as weed-free as possible? How does weather affect the activity of pre-emergence herbicides? Are there an...
May 20, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this epidoside we interviewed Anne Verhallen, Soil Management Specialist Horticulture at the Ontario Ministry of Food and Rural Affairs, and Ajay Nair, Professor of Horticulture at Iowa State University about soil dynamics during freeze events, and their potential effects on germinating seed and emerged vegetable plants, assessing freeze damage, and on maintaining transplants when they must be held due to poor planting conditions.
May 14, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 2
