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Wee ekly Berryy Call – Ju uly 6, 20111 Partiicipants: Keviin Schooley (Otttawa, Ontarioo Berry Growerrs Assoc., NASG GA Exec. Directtor), Laura McDermott (Easteern NY/Upper Hudson/Lower Adirrondack), Marvvin Pritts (Finge er Lakes region n/Ithaca), Courrtney Weber (N NYSAES Genevva), Dale Ila Rigggs on Bachman (Erie Co.) (Stephentown, Easttern NY), Sharo Grow wing conditio ons: (courtesy N NY NASS) Weekk ending July 3 3, 2011: The firrst full week off summer 2011 1 provided tem mperatures at o or slightly below w seasonable normals with rainfaall amounts offfering a varietyy of results. Portions of weste ern New York w were drier than normal with portions of eaastern New York aaveraging nearr normal. Severe weather rep ports were nottable on Tuesdday, June 28th across upstatee New York. We began the period rather cool aand unsettled w with an upper level low in ou ur region. This w with a region o of high pressurre for the early was replaced w of the week as a storm system m was develop ping over the ccenter of the naation. This storrm approached d on Tuesday w with showers part o and thunderstorms. By Wednesdaay a slightly cooler and more stable airmasss filtered acrosss the Great Laakes region and d into portionss mained dominant for the rem mainder of thee week with litttle additional rrainfall. of Neew England. This region of higgh pressure rem
Repo orts from the Field Steph hentown, Eastern NY – Still p picking strawbe erries but will b be done beforee the weekend d (July 9). Sum mmer raspberries (actually Polan na and Autumn n Britten kept ffor two crops) in the high tun nnel are gorgeoous – huge 1.225” fruit and deelicious. The p primocanes also o look ggreat. Blackbe erries in tunnel also look greaat. The blueberries are almosst ready – size looks wonderful. Had lots o of rain over the e weekknd. ots of very heavvy (up to 4” in some areas, Easteern NY/Upper Hudson/Lower Adirondacks – Very erratic weather patteern bringing lo most getting about an inch in an h hour) showers that are localized. This has m made pest con ntrol difficult and also field w work impossible e me areas. Straawberry season n was down 20 0‐50% in most areas. Bluebeerries look mosstly quite good d – a few spots that the fruit in som set is very poor, and d most places tthe berry size m may help an avverage fruit sett. Brown Marm morated Stink Bug nymphs aand egg massess d in the capital district. found berries in HT lo ook spectacular. Showers over the weekennd missed Ithacca and now theey are in a rath her extended Ithacaa – Black raspb dry seeason with lotss of sun. o get trials plannted. Have no ot had rain in o over 2 weeks. JJust began Geneeva – Very rouggh strawberry sseason – just too wet even to pickin ng summer beaaring raspberriies in HT a wee ek ago (late Jun ne). Powdery m mildew is show wing up on sussceptible varietties, pressure causeed by such high h humidity. So o much mildew w on Canby fruit that it is not marketable. M More information about varieeties in report below w. ually getting a little too dry! D Duke blueberrry has started p picking. There have been a Westtern NY/Lake EErie – Dry all last week – actu few in ndividual sitinggs of Brown Marmorated Stin nk bug in the region. These ssamples were sent to the Hu udson Valley lab. ps of 28 eggs exxactly. This is Two apple leaves sshowing egg masses in group ug lays eggs. TThe leaf on leftt, with white how Brown Marmoorated Stink Bu olor eggs is a n native stink eggs is BMSB. The mass on right with darker co were found by ggeneral visual observation bug. Both of thesee egg masses w both on the low wer limbs of trrees. and b ber, Cornell Un niversity NYSA AES, Geneva. Guesst Speaker Dr. Courtney Web Dr. W Weber is the sm mall fruit breed der for Cornell University and d spoke with us abou ut some of his oongoing field ttrials. The sum mmer raspberryy varieties in the h high tunnel aree being challen nged by Powdeery Mildew and d ‘Canby’ has not h held up. The vvegetation in th he tunnel is exttremely heavyy adding to the challenge. ‘Preludee’ is done picking, but 1st fruit was delivereed on June 27thh which was 9 days laater than last yyear. ‘Killarneyy’ and ‘Mouterre’ harvest is ongo oing. This earlyy material is a bit disappointiing – the plantts did not seem m to thrrive (especiallyy ‘Encore’), and d ‘Killarney’ fru uit size was nott spectacular. ‘Titan’ and ‘En ncore’ is just beeginning, and tthis fruit size seem ms MUCH better than early se eason varieties. K81‐6 has no ot started pickking yet. The ggoal is to have ffruit from mid‐‐June to end of July. ‘Nova’ is only in outside trials, not the HT yyet.
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Wee ekly Berryy Call – Ju uly 6, 20111 Primo ocane trial – 7 varieties are b being evaluated d. Autumn Brritten – very nice looking, butt the fruit is daark. Joan J – thornelss – long production run, fruit is dark but very firm –– almost rubbeery. Shelf life iis good. Himbo Top p – brightest co olor Caroline – very vigorous but still productive Jacqueline – best tasting berry but veryy hard to pick Crimson Giant – later thaan Heritage and has better co olor No Jo osephine in the e trial, it is later than Heritage e but more vigorous. The coolor is dark and d has large fruitt. Day Neutral strrawberry trial w was a challenge e to get started d. It was a verry difficult plan nting season an nd the dorman nt crowns did The D not get into the gro ound until mid‐‐June. The sam me varieties will also be plantted in early August as well. TThe plants havee een sourced d in the trial arre: Evie‐2, Trib bute, Albion, Seeascape, Porto ola. Chandler is not included – this variety from different nurseries. Included ostly grown in N North Carolina and is popularr with some off the folks grow wing for Farmeers’ markets ass it allows them m to get very is mo early berries when planted as roo oted cuttings in n the early autu umn. wn in the fall s o that spring p planting goes seamlessly. They do this in The kkey to early plaanting may be tto get field fit aand plastic dow Queb bec and it workks well. n plastic. ‘Ovation’ seems too do better onp plastic than it d does in a matteed row. Jewel,, Otherr variety trials include a June Bearer trial on Clanccy and Seneca w will be evaluatted for their pe erformance on plastic. The m matted row triaal includes: ‘AC Valleyy Sunset’ – late and large – so o large that the e uneven ripenning where there is an obviou usl shade and ssun side. The eating quaality is very goo od, and a vigorrous plant. ‘Record’ w which is a darke er color replacement for ‘Ide ea’ ‘Ovation’ is a nice late bloomer therefo ore avoiding frrost, but it undderperforms in a matted row. more informatio on about berryy varieties, che eck out the Corrnell Berry webbsite: http://www.fruit.corneell.edu/index.h html For m Questions? nd some nice firm berries thaat will stand up to rain for th he duration off the season? Can yyou recommen Wendy – aan early firm be erry that has Verticillium problems L’Amour – is a mid‐seaso on firm that did d pretty well th his year despitee rain Jewel – not as firm as one would like, b but still the besst mid‐season bberry out theree Clancy ‐= aa mid‐late berry, firm but doe esn’t renovate well. AC Valley SSunset – late firm with poten ntial uneven rip pening mentio ned above Also ‘‘Seneca’ – VER RY firm, almost crunchy, but it tends to deve elop off flavorss. It also doesnn’t run well an nd needs to be planted at 12”” or lesss in the row. IIt will bear mid d‐season at the e same time ass Jewel, which outperforms itt in good weather seasons. bleshooting: Troub How are sap beetle es handled in N NYS? Some succcess with trap ps baited with bbread dough yyeast as a way tto remove them from field. ding sap beetle es in the fields BEFORE the Brigade has helped for a while. Now we are find help if pickers ccan remove all berries from ffield – includinng the junk, in fruit iis ripe. It will h orderr to clean up th he field and red duce sap beetle pressure. 0 lbs of sugar d dissolved in 40 0 gallons of watter include a Sugarr solution – birrd control? 200 stickeer. The birds cannot digest th he sticky syrup p and this does seem to help with bird contrrol Ancillary prroblems include yellow jackets and bees. ook like? See p photo at right. To control m ummy berry, Whatt does early mummy berry lo remo ove the mulch u under infected d berries and reapply with fre esh mulch nextt spring. Use Indarr alternating wiith Pristine from 1/4" shoot tto petal fall next year. edation permitt from the US For flocking bird prroblems you caan get a migrattory bird depre ervice. Then se end approval to o NYS DEC. Fish aand Wildlife Se http:///www.fws.gov/forms/3‐200 0‐13.pdf
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Temperature (oF) Station
Hudson Valley Albany Glens Falls Poughkeepsie Mohawk Valley Boonville Champlain Valley Plattsburgh St. Lawrence Valley Canton Massena Great Lakes Buffalo Wales Niagara Falls Rochester Watertown Central Lakes Dansville Geneva Honeoye Ithaca Penn Yan Syracuse Warsaw Western Plateau Hornell Almond Dam Elmira Franklinville Jamestown Eastern Plateau Binghamton Cobleskill Morrisville Norwich Oneonta Coastal Bridgehamton New York
Growing Degree Days Precipitation Base 50o 1/ (Inches) 1/ Dep. Dep. Dep. from Week from Season from Week Season Norm Norm Norm
High
Low
Avg
Dep. from Norm
86 83 85
54 53 51
70 69 71
+0 +2 +1
144 133 148
1103 926 1174
+254 +207 +273
0.36 1.02 0.55
-0.43 14.17 +3.82 +0.33 13.68 +3.63 -0.35 15.46 +3.45
77
51
63
-2
91
660
+120
0.46
-0.53
21.78 +7.73
84
53
68
+0
129
815
+77
0.30
-0.40
17.13 +8.08
83 86
55 55
67 70
+0 +3
118 141
846 924
+209 +240
0.58 0.09
-0.19 -0.64
15.42 +5.98 12.42 +3.79
84 84 83 87 85
54 49 50 51 52
69 65 68 69 68
-2 -2 -2 +2 +2
132 104 129 137 126
980 788 927 1000 851
+182 +163 +114 +210 +221
0.02 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.06
-0.73 -0.81 -0.71 -0.67 -0.45
17.30 16.01 14.17 11.95 13.36
+7.43 +4.11 +4.38 +3.35 +5.26
90 86 87 85 87 88 82
52 55 49 46 54 56 52
71 69 67 66 70 71 64
+2 +0 -3 -2 +2 +3 -2
146 132 119 111 139 148 99
1163 968 957 912 1045 1194 752
+378 +205 +166 +266 +282 +395 +176
0.05 0.37 0.39 1.38 0.42 0.25 0.35
-0.77 -0.42 -0.38 +0.54 -0.37 -0.66 -0.56
11.62 12.25 14.18 16.31 10.99 15.78 17.73
+1.75 +2.34 +4.38 +5.96 +1.08 +4.99 +6.22
86 87 83 84
45 43 44 48
65 67 63 66
-2 -1 -1 +2
106 123 93 112
836 994 779 888
+205 +261 +274 +304
0.18 0.01 0.07 0.02
-0.66 -0.83 -0.86 -0.99
16.58 13.49 19.66 18.56
+6.86 +3.48 +8.21 +5.83
82 82 82 84 83
51 52 50 46 46
67 66 65 65 66
-2 +0 -1 -2 +1
118 114 109 109 112
932 828 782 864 857
+224 +175 +169 +213 +261
0.86 0.12 0.09 1.36 0.91
+0.02 -0.80 -0.81 +0.47 -0.04
19.37 13.72 15.38 20.41 19.41
+8.92 +2.22 +4.13 +8.85 +7.03
83 84
55 66
72 76
+3 +2
153 184
983 1337
+230 +176
0.05 0.03
-0.70 -0.84
11.91 +0.22 12.95 +1.38
1/ Season accumulations are for April 1st to date. Weekly accumulations are through 7:00 AM Sunday Morning
The information contained in this weekly release is obtained in cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension, USDA Farm Service Agency, the National Weather Service, Agricultural Weather Information Service and other knowledgeable persons associated with New York agriculture. Their cooperation is greatly appreciated.
Visit our website at www.nass.usda.gov/ny and click on “Subscribe to NY Reports” for instructions on subscribing electronically. You may also visit our website to access all our reports which are available for free online.
Repo orts from the Field Steph hentown, Eastern NY – Still p picking strawbe erries but will b be done beforee the weekend d (July 9). Sum mmer raspberries (actually Polan na and Autumn n Britten kept ffor two crops) in the high tun nnel are gorgeoous – huge 1.225” fruit and deelicious. The p primocanes also o look ggreat. Blackbe erries in tunnel also look greaat. The blueberries are almosst ready – size looks wonderful. Had lots o of rain over the e weekknd. ots of very heavvy (up to 4” in some areas, Easteern NY/Upper Hudson/Lower Adirondacks – Very erratic weather patteern bringing lo most getting about an inch in an h hour) showers that are localized. This has m made pest con ntrol difficult and also field w work impossible e me areas. Straawberry season n was down 20 0‐50% in most areas. Bluebeerries look mosstly quite good d – a few spots that the fruit in som set is very poor, and d most places tthe berry size m may help an avverage fruit sett. Brown Marm morated Stink Bug nymphs aand egg massess d in the capital district. found berries in HT lo ook spectacular. Showers over the weekennd missed Ithacca and now theey are in a rath her extended Ithacaa – Black raspb dry seeason with lotss of sun. o get trials plannted. Have no ot had rain in o over 2 weeks. JJust began Geneeva – Very rouggh strawberry sseason – just too wet even to pickin ng summer beaaring raspberriies in HT a wee ek ago (late Jun ne). Powdery m mildew is show wing up on sussceptible varietties, pressure causeed by such high h humidity. So o much mildew w on Canby fruit that it is not marketable. M More information about varieeties in report below w. ually getting a little too dry! D Duke blueberrry has started p picking. There have been a Westtern NY/Lake EErie – Dry all last week – actu few in ndividual sitinggs of Brown Marmorated Stin nk bug in the region. These ssamples were sent to the Hu udson Valley lab. ps of 28 eggs exxactly. This is Two apple leaves sshowing egg masses in group ug lays eggs. TThe leaf on leftt, with white how Brown Marmoorated Stink Bu olor eggs is a n native stink eggs is BMSB. The mass on right with darker co were found by ggeneral visual observation bug. Both of thesee egg masses w both on the low wer limbs of trrees. and b ber, Cornell Un niversity NYSA AES, Geneva. Guesst Speaker Dr. Courtney Web Dr. W Weber is the sm mall fruit breed der for Cornell University and d spoke with us abou ut some of his oongoing field ttrials. The sum mmer raspberryy varieties in the h high tunnel aree being challen nged by Powdeery Mildew and d ‘Canby’ has not h held up. The vvegetation in th he tunnel is exttremely heavyy adding to the challenge. ‘Preludee’ is done picking, but 1st fruit was delivereed on June 27thh which was 9 days laater than last yyear. ‘Killarneyy’ and ‘Mouterre’ harvest is ongo oing. This earlyy material is a bit disappointiing – the plantts did not seem m to thrrive (especiallyy ‘Encore’), and d ‘Killarney’ fru uit size was nott spectacular. ‘Titan’ and ‘En ncore’ is just beeginning, and tthis fruit size seem ms MUCH better than early se eason varieties. K81‐6 has no ot started pickking yet. The ggoal is to have ffruit from mid‐‐June to end of July. ‘Nova’ is only in outside trials, not the HT yyet.
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Wee ekly Berryy Call – Ju uly 6, 20111 Primo ocane trial – 7 varieties are b being evaluated d. Autumn Brritten – very nice looking, butt the fruit is daark. Joan J – thornelss – long production run, fruit is dark but very firm –– almost rubbeery. Shelf life iis good. Himbo Top p – brightest co olor Caroline – very vigorous but still productive Jacqueline – best tasting berry but veryy hard to pick Crimson Giant – later thaan Heritage and has better co olor No Jo osephine in the e trial, it is later than Heritage e but more vigorous. The coolor is dark and d has large fruitt. Day Neutral strrawberry trial w was a challenge e to get started d. It was a verry difficult plan nting season an nd the dorman nt crowns did The D not get into the gro ound until mid‐‐June. The sam me varieties will also be plantted in early August as well. TThe plants havee een sourced d in the trial arre: Evie‐2, Trib bute, Albion, Seeascape, Porto ola. Chandler is not included – this variety from different nurseries. Included ostly grown in N North Carolina and is popularr with some off the folks grow wing for Farmeers’ markets ass it allows them m to get very is mo early berries when planted as roo oted cuttings in n the early autu umn. wn in the fall s o that spring p planting goes seamlessly. They do this in The kkey to early plaanting may be tto get field fit aand plastic dow Queb bec and it workks well. n plastic. ‘Ovation’ seems too do better onp plastic than it d does in a matteed row. Jewel,, Otherr variety trials include a June Bearer trial on Clanccy and Seneca w will be evaluatted for their pe erformance on plastic. The m matted row triaal includes: ‘AC Valleyy Sunset’ – late and large – so o large that the e uneven ripenning where there is an obviou usl shade and ssun side. The eating quaality is very goo od, and a vigorrous plant. ‘Record’ w which is a darke er color replacement for ‘Ide ea’ ‘Ovation’ is a nice late bloomer therefo ore avoiding frrost, but it undderperforms in a matted row. more informatio on about berryy varieties, che eck out the Corrnell Berry webbsite: http://www.fruit.corneell.edu/index.h html For m Questions? nd some nice firm berries thaat will stand up to rain for th he duration off the season? Can yyou recommen Wendy – aan early firm be erry that has Verticillium problems L’Amour – is a mid‐seaso on firm that did d pretty well th his year despitee rain Jewel – not as firm as one would like, b but still the besst mid‐season bberry out theree Clancy ‐= aa mid‐late berry, firm but doe esn’t renovate well. AC Valley SSunset – late firm with poten ntial uneven rip pening mentio ned above Also ‘‘Seneca’ – VER RY firm, almost crunchy, but it tends to deve elop off flavorss. It also doesnn’t run well an nd needs to be planted at 12”” or lesss in the row. IIt will bear mid d‐season at the e same time ass Jewel, which outperforms itt in good weather seasons. bleshooting: Troub How are sap beetle es handled in N NYS? Some succcess with trap ps baited with bbread dough yyeast as a way tto remove them from field. ding sap beetle es in the fields BEFORE the Brigade has helped for a while. Now we are find help if pickers ccan remove all berries from ffield – includinng the junk, in fruit iis ripe. It will h orderr to clean up th he field and red duce sap beetle pressure. 0 lbs of sugar d dissolved in 40 0 gallons of watter include a Sugarr solution – birrd control? 200 stickeer. The birds cannot digest th he sticky syrup p and this does seem to help with bird contrrol Ancillary prroblems include yellow jackets and bees. ook like? See p photo at right. To control m ummy berry, Whatt does early mummy berry lo remo ove the mulch u under infected d berries and reapply with fre esh mulch nextt spring. Use Indarr alternating wiith Pristine from 1/4" shoot tto petal fall next year. edation permitt from the US For flocking bird prroblems you caan get a migrattory bird depre ervice. Then se end approval to o NYS DEC. Fish aand Wildlife Se http:///www.fws.gov/forms/3‐200 0‐13.pdf
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Temperature (oF) Station
Hudson Valley Albany Glens Falls Poughkeepsie Mohawk Valley Boonville Champlain Valley Plattsburgh St. Lawrence Valley Canton Massena Great Lakes Buffalo Wales Niagara Falls Rochester Watertown Central Lakes Dansville Geneva Honeoye Ithaca Penn Yan Syracuse Warsaw Western Plateau Hornell Almond Dam Elmira Franklinville Jamestown Eastern Plateau Binghamton Cobleskill Morrisville Norwich Oneonta Coastal Bridgehamton New York
Growing Degree Days Precipitation Base 50o 1/ (Inches) 1/ Dep. Dep. Dep. from Week from Season from Week Season Norm Norm Norm
High
Low
Avg
Dep. from Norm
86 83 85
54 53 51
70 69 71
+0 +2 +1
144 133 148
1103 926 1174
+254 +207 +273
0.36 1.02 0.55
-0.43 14.17 +3.82 +0.33 13.68 +3.63 -0.35 15.46 +3.45
77
51
63
-2
91
660
+120
0.46
-0.53
21.78 +7.73
84
53
68
+0
129
815
+77
0.30
-0.40
17.13 +8.08
83 86
55 55
67 70
+0 +3
118 141
846 924
+209 +240
0.58 0.09
-0.19 -0.64
15.42 +5.98 12.42 +3.79
84 84 83 87 85
54 49 50 51 52
69 65 68 69 68
-2 -2 -2 +2 +2
132 104 129 137 126
980 788 927 1000 851
+182 +163 +114 +210 +221
0.02 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.06
-0.73 -0.81 -0.71 -0.67 -0.45
17.30 16.01 14.17 11.95 13.36
+7.43 +4.11 +4.38 +3.35 +5.26
90 86 87 85 87 88 82
52 55 49 46 54 56 52
71 69 67 66 70 71 64
+2 +0 -3 -2 +2 +3 -2
146 132 119 111 139 148 99
1163 968 957 912 1045 1194 752
+378 +205 +166 +266 +282 +395 +176
0.05 0.37 0.39 1.38 0.42 0.25 0.35
-0.77 -0.42 -0.38 +0.54 -0.37 -0.66 -0.56
11.62 12.25 14.18 16.31 10.99 15.78 17.73
+1.75 +2.34 +4.38 +5.96 +1.08 +4.99 +6.22
86 87 83 84
45 43 44 48
65 67 63 66
-2 -1 -1 +2
106 123 93 112
836 994 779 888
+205 +261 +274 +304
0.18 0.01 0.07 0.02
-0.66 -0.83 -0.86 -0.99
16.58 13.49 19.66 18.56
+6.86 +3.48 +8.21 +5.83
82 82 82 84 83
51 52 50 46 46
67 66 65 65 66
-2 +0 -1 -2 +1
118 114 109 109 112
932 828 782 864 857
+224 +175 +169 +213 +261
0.86 0.12 0.09 1.36 0.91
+0.02 -0.80 -0.81 +0.47 -0.04
19.37 13.72 15.38 20.41 19.41
+8.92 +2.22 +4.13 +8.85 +7.03
83 84
55 66
72 76
+3 +2
153 184
983 1337
+230 +176
0.05 0.03
-0.70 -0.84
11.91 +0.22 12.95 +1.38
1/ Season accumulations are for April 1st to date. Weekly accumulations are through 7:00 AM Sunday Morning
The information contained in this weekly release is obtained in cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension, USDA Farm Service Agency, the National Weather Service, Agricultural Weather Information Service and other knowledgeable persons associated with New York agriculture. Their cooperation is greatly appreciated.
Visit our website at www.nass.usda.gov/ny and click on “Subscribe to NY Reports” for instructions on subscribing electronically. You may also visit our website to access all our reports which are available for free online.
