An error on yesterday’s slide: Vivando should not be on the downy mildew table!

I mistakingly placed Vivando, which does not work on downy mildew, on the downy mildew table. Please strike it out or use the updated version below. 1) List of short PHI… Read more

List of short PHI fungicides for late-season diseases and today’s presentation slides

Thank you again for participating in our meeting. Please find two materials from today’s meeting. 1) List of short PHI fungicides for late-season diseases (will open a pdf file) 2) Today’s presentation… Read more

Recent downy mildew risk events

This is another reminder about downy mildew. This post is probably more applicable to those of us who are in northern VA. We received several rain events in the past… Read more

Another reminder on downy mildew

It looks like many of us received some rain in the past few days, and we may see another rain toward the end of this week. Here are recent downy… Read more

Slides from today’s presentation, meetings, and newsletters (email subscription)

Presentation slides Thank you to those of you who were able to make it to the meeting today. Here are slides from today’s presentation (open PDF).  Up-coming meetings Eastern Section… Read more

Recent grape disease risk events

It looks like we all received much-needed rains, which is good for vine growth. However, since most of our vines are still within the critical period for cluster infection by… Read more

A quick reminder about downy mildew

Just a quick note that recent rain events were risk events for downy mildew based on the NEWA DMCast model. It seems that northern VA received more and longer rain… Read more

At bloom disease management tips

Recent cooler weather seems to have slowed down vine development, but it looks like vines in the south are about to bloom. Bloom is a start of the critical time… Read more

A quick note on Pierce’s Disease management

Since the past winter was more or less steady and mild, in terms of temperature fluctuations, there are less likely that many of us saw the minimum temperature at 15F… Read more

Slides from today’s virtual meeting and RSS feed

 Thank you to those of you who were able to join us today. Here are some of the items we discussed. Slides from today’s presentation (will open a pdf file… Read more
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