2025 | Volume 16, Issue 7
Inside this issue:
- An Unusual Vegetable Pest Observed This Season: Fleahoppers
- Differentiating Common Caterpillar Pests of Late-Season Vegetables
- Late Fall Vegetable Crop Scouting
- Updated Post-Planting (Fall 2025) Recommendations for Managing Neopestalotiopsis
- Agricultural Water Assessment Builder
- Maryland Pesticide News Updates (August-September)
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Vegetable Production Guide Mid-Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations (EB-236)
Vegetable Production Guide Mid-Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations (EB-236) -
Spray Program for Multi-Small Fruit Plantings
Spray Program for Multi-Small Fruit Plantings -
Common Fruit Herbicides*
Common Fruit Herbicides*
2025 Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference
University of Maryland, Agriculture Law Education Initiative ALEI hosts an Agricultural and Environmental Law Conference annually. This event attracts agricultural service providers, attorneys, educators, environmentalists, producers, landowners, policymakers, and students to discuss the complex intersection of environmental regulation and agriculture in Maryland. ALEI prides itself on hosting an event that brings agriculture and conservation experts together in a forum that allows for exchanging ideas and education for conference attendees on current legal topics of interest. This year’s conference will be held in person on November 10, 2025, at the Graduate Hotel in Annapolis. Registration is now available! Register Here: https://bit.ly/2025AGENLAWCON
Extensión en Español Check out Extensión en Español, a Spanish language blog by two UMD professors, Anahí Espíndola (Entomology) and Macarena Farcuh (Plant Sciences & Landscape Architecture). https://extensionesp.umd.edu/
They cover a range of topics, including fruit, pollinators, pests, soils, and pesticides.
Upcoming UME Events!
UMES Extension’s Small Farm Conference
Oct. 24-25, 2025, at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury, MD, and learn how to make your small farm an even greater success. $50 per day per participant or $100 for both days (ends Oct. 10). More information and to register go to https://wwwcp.umes.edu/extension/small-farm-conference/
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Event: Ag Integrated Pest Management Webinar Series: Navigating EPA’s Bulletin Live! Two
Date: November 13, 2025 | Thursday
Location: Online webinar (Via Zoom)
For more details and registration, visit https://go.umd.edu/ipmwebinar
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Hayden Schug at 301-226-7502.
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Event: 2025 Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School
Date: November 18-20, 2025 | Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Time: varies | Cost: Early bird: $350 (Early bird ends on Oct. 24); General Registration: $410
Location: Princess Royale, 9110 Coastal Highway, Ocean City, MD 21842
Description: The Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School offers a 2 1/2 day format with a variety of breakout sessions. Individuals needing training in soil and water, nutrient management, crop management and pest management can create their own schedule by choosing from up to 5 program options offered each hour. Emphasis is placed on new and advanced information, with group discussions and interaction encouraged.
For more information or to register: http://go.umd.edu/25crop
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Event: Urban Farming Vegetable and Fruit Production IPM Workshop
Date: December 18, 2025 | Thursday
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm | Cost: free
Description: Make plans to attend one of the Urban Farming Vegetable and Fruit Production IPM Workshop PAT/NM Recertification, Thursday, December 18, 2025, from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the Anne Arundel County Extension Office. The workshops will explore advanced fruit and vegetable production practices focusing on sustainability, food security and integrated pest management tactics. This meeting will provide Private Applicator Recertification & Nutrient Applicator Voucher Recertification.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-farming-vegetable-and-fruit-production-ipm-workshop-tickets-1802684841889?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Hiring and Retaining Farm Employees – What you Need to Know and Do
Are you trying to find, hire and keep great employees? Is it a bit confusing and time consuming? Do you know where to start and who to involve? Are you worried about the legal considerations when having non-family members employed? This course will help you sort through all these questions and concerns. Navigating this process doesn’t have to be difficult as this course will share with you. Through the four modules of this course, you’ll get important information and resources you can adapt for your own operation. For more information go to https://agrisk.umd.edu/grant-proposals/hiring-and-retaining-farm-employees
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SAVE THE DATE
- Central Maryland Fruit and Vegetable Meeting– January 21, 2026, Monkton, MD
- Western Maryland Regional Fruit Meeting, February 12, 2025, Keedysville, MD
- Eastern Shore Vegetable Grower Meeting: February 18, 2026, Cambridge, MD
- Mid-Atlantic Fruit & Vegetable Convention (https://mafvc.org/): January 27-29, 2026, Hershey, PA.
Precision Ag Irrigation Survey
The Precision Agriculture Lab at UME is conducting a survey of all farmers in Maryland on irrigation management practices and knowledge, regardless of whether they currently use irrigation or not. This survey will help to collect data to better assess the need in the state and to develop irrigation management resources. All survey participants must be at least 18 years old and operate in the state. We anticipate the survey will take 10 minutes or less to complete. All responses to this survey will be anonymous; no identifying information will be collected or connected to participant responses.
Any questions or comments can be directed to Dr. Hemendra Kumar (hemendra@umd.edu) or Dr. Cara Peterson (cmpeters@umd.edu) of the Precision Agriculture Lab at University of Maryland Extension.
The survey can be found at
https://bit.ly/3J8QVEM
Vegetable & Fruit News Volume 16 Issue 7 - Download PDF
Vegetable & Fruit News is a research-based publication for the commercial vegetable and fruit industry available electronically from April through October. Published by the University of Maryland Extension Agriculture and Food Systems team.
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