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Potato Seed from Spud to Bud
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 condition...
Alternatives to Plastic Mulch
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?...
From Cradle to Crate: Bacterial Diseases of Tomato
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 ...
Go Plant Activators!
Ben Phillips interviewed Steve Bogash, of Marrone Bio Innovations, and Dan Egel, vegetable pathologist at Purdue. They discussed a special group of fungicides that wor...
Spring Sprayer Startup at Center Ice
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 ...
Seeds in the Hot Seat
This week Katie King interviewed Mohammad Babadoost, from the University of Illinois, and Fracensca Rotondo, from The Ohio State University, about seed treatments for ...
Springtime in the Hoophouse
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 lo...
Organic Media Mixes and Fixes
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 f...
Lessons learned from Covid: Preparing for the 2021 Growing Season
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 lesso...
Rekindling the Flame
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CFAP 2, Money for You
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...
Bonus Sponsor Content!
Here is a compilation of all the sponsor ads from the 2020 season. Wow, it's nearly 12 minutes long!00:25 Miracle Carp01:15 Larry's Leaning Pumpkins01:59 Half-Baked Hi...
Pumpkin Decisions in the Final Stretch
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 o...
Phytophthora Phthoughts
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 perp...
A World Without Lorsban
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 N...
Peppers, Hot
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 Charli...
Cleaning & Sanitizing Postharvest Equipment
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 saniti...
Managing Sweet Corn Caterpillars
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 trappi...
Late Summer Covers for Veggie Rotations
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-...
Irrigation Setups for Vegetables
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.can...
A Biostimulating Discussion
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 ...
Getting Elemental with Boron
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 nutr...
Avoiding the Powdery Mildew Blues
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 be...
Predicting Pest Pressure
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 a...
Do's and Don't's For Submitting Samples and Reading Results
Our first guest today is Lina Rodriguez-Salamanca, Extension Plant Pathologist and Diagnostician, at Iowa State University. In the ISU Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clin...
Hoophouse Nutrient Management
Today’s episode is HOOPHOUSE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT. Our first guest today is Judson Reid, Extension Vegetable Specialist, at Cornell University. Judson focuses on cultur...
Pumpkin Planting for Halloween Markets
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 bu...
The white thread: early season weed management
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 seedb...
Seedbed prep + health transplants: freeze edition
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...