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Earlier this month (Feb 5th), Georgia blueberry growers and UGA researchers visited with the leadership of Georgia Department of Agriculture and Commissioner Gary W. Black to discuss potential avenues to secure research funding in order to find appropriate solutions to the major problems facing blueberry industry in the state, such as spotted wing drosophila (SWD).
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By: D. Scott NeSmith Often times during blueberry presentations or when reading some of our management guidelines, you might come across something referring to blueberry flower bud stages. A recommendation may instruct the user to apply a compound at stage 6 of bud development, for example. Or, you might hear someone say, “do not…
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Last year, I visited a blueberry site with significant mummy berry pressure in one of our southern Georgia counties. Based on the producer spray records, the materials applied and application timings were on target; there initially appeared to be no good reason for the level of mummy berry observed – assuming all was accurate. At…
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After the 2013 blueberry harvest, we received blueberry foliage samples collected from blueberries in Bacon County, Georgia. The undersides of the leaves were infested with large numbers of whitefly pupae that were identified as Tetraleurodes ursorum Cockerell (Aleyrodidae: Hemiptera). This species is sometimes called “bearberry whitefly” because it was first reported on the common bearberry…
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Exobasidium leaf and fruit spot has been an infrequent and geographically dispersed disease of blueberries in the Southeast. However, during the 2011-2013 harvest seasons, we have had frequent reports of the disease in rabbiteye and highbush blueberries. Although scattered, where Exobasidium leaf and fruit spot occurs it can cause significant losses (60-70% in specific locations),…
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https://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-forward/2013/08/06/georgia-the-blueberry-state/
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