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Item The Vegetable Beet: Tunnel trouble: increasing many things, but not yield(2022-05-17) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkHigh tunnel crops often look great for the first few years, but as tunnel soils begin to build up salts and alkalinity, we begin to see plant health problems around years 3-5. In this episode, Natalie Hoidal interviews Dr. Elsa Sanchez and Thomas Ford from Penn State about trends they've seen in high tunnel soils, and strategies for dealing with common problems.Item The Vegetable Beet: Where phosphorus comes from and where it goes(2022-05-17) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkAcross the Great Lakes region, we see vegetable farms with very high levels of soil phosphorus. In this episode, Natalie Hoidal interviews four ecologists who study nutrient leaching in freshwater ecosystems to understand how much it matters for vegetable farms to have high phosphorus levels in their soils, and what we can do about it.Item The Vegetable Beet: Building organic matter without building phosphorus(2022-05-18) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkHow do we build organic matter on farms without over-fertilizing our soils? And what are realistic goals for increasing organic matter? In this episode, Natalie Hoidal interviews Dr. Nic Jelinski, a soil scientist at the University of Minnesota. They talk about soil formation, how organic matter accumulates in soil, broadening our metrics for soil health, and how different practices like compost additions and cover crops contribute to organic matter in the longer-term.Item The Vegetable Beet: The Vegetable Beet Episode 1 - Welcome Vegetable Producers(2020-05-01) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkIt is May 1, and welcome to the Great Lakes Vegetable Producer’s Network, a live weekly roundtable discussion during the growing-season for commercial vegetable producers in the Great Lakes and Midwest region. We broadcast live via Zoom at 12:30 ET/11:30 CT every Wednesday from the first week of May to the first week of September. Topics will include things of interest to small and large growers, organic and conventional. To join the live audience, subscribe and get the login at glveg.net/listen. You can also get the Zoom smartphone apps there. The format we’re running with will be a 30 minute interview and discussion with some experts from the region, on topics that seem relevant for the week or month. Then, we’ll open it up for another 15 or 20 minutes for some live audience participation with the hosts and guests of the week. This coming week, MAY 6: WEATHERING THE COVID-19 CONTENT STORM We will interview Amanda Byler, a Family Nurse Practitioner who works with migrant worker communities at Great Lakes Bay Health Centers, and Annalisa Hultberg, University of Minnesota Extension Educator for on-farm food safety, about farm family, farm worker, and customer safety as we enter our production season during a global pandemic. Music: Gypsy Dance, Topher Mohr and Alex Elena, Youtube Audio Library.Item The Vegetable Beet: Weathering the COVID-19 Content Storm(2020-05-06) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkIn the first episode, on May 6, we interviewed Amanda Byler, a Family Nurse Practitioner who works with migrant worker communities at Great Lakes Bay Health Centers, and Annalisa Hultberg, University of Minnesota Extension Educator for on-farm food safety, about farm family, farm worker, and customer safety as we enter our production season during a global pandemic. Some resources that were discussed can be found here. Federally Qualified Health Center map These health centers serve under-insured and uninsured people by offering sliding scale fees, increased Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, and some specialize in bilingual migrant health services. COVID-19 Response Plan Template for Fruit and Vegetable Farms This is a big shared effort to make a template COVID-19 plan for your farm. You can request a copy to customize for your own use. CDC: What To Do If You Are Sick From Amanda: "I also wanted to add a little clarification [at 37:00 minute mark] – the CARES Act eliminated cost of testing specifically for UNINSURED patients. Many insurances are waiving the co-pays and additional cost of testing but the question specific to the CARES Act is aimed at uninsured patients."Item The Vegetable Beet: The white thread: early season weed management(2020-05-20) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkOur 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 seedbed prep, mechanical weeders, and cover crops for weed control. Stephen focuses on helping vegetable growers using herbicides safely and effectively, as well as testing new products. How can growers prepare a seedbed to start off as weed-free as possible? How does weather affect the activity of pre-emergence herbicides? Are there any characteristics of herbicides that can be used to predict how their performance and safety will vary in dry vs wet soil conditions? What tools are most effective for cleaning up small weed escapes in early-sown veggies? How do pre-emergence herbicides interact with shallow-weeding tools like basket weeders?Item The Vegetable Beet: Seedbed prep + health transplants: freeze edition(2020-05-14) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkIn this episode we interviewed Anne Verhallen, Soil Management Specialist Horticulture at the Ontario Ministry of Food and Rural Affairs, and Ajay Nair, Professor of Horticulture at Iowa State University about soil dynamics during freeze events, and their potential effects on germinating seed and emerged vegetable plants, assessing freeze damage, and on maintaining transplants when they must be held due to poor planting conditions.Item The Vegetable Beet: Knocking the wind out of soil diseases(2022-08-01) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkIn this episode we talk to Anna Testen and Bob Philbrun, from Ohio, about a method for directly competing with and destroying soil diseases by encouraging a special group of microbiology, called anaerobes. Like day shift and a night shift clocking in and out, the anaerobes rule with oxygen is removed from the soil, leaving behind a tilthy planting medium wither fewer plant disease-causing pathogens.Item The Vegetable Beet: Pumpkin Planting for Halloween Markets(2020-05-28) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkBrad 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 businesses. Together we will discuss planting time decisions to hit your target markets for conventional and strip-till/no-till systems.Nathan talked about a no-till transplanter, and pictures of his and another type can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KIpvlYrmCshsyOLM8Iax0yT_XVwva8ky?usp=sharingItem The Vegetable Beet: Hoophouse Nutrient Management(2020-06-04) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkToday’s episode is HOOPHOUSE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT. Our first guest today is Judson Reid, Extension Vegetable Specialist, at Cornell University. Judson focuses on cultural practices, small farm operations and season extension techniques. Our second guest is David Van Eeckhout from The Good Acre food hub in St. Paul, Minnesota. As The Good Acre’s Grower Support Specialist, David combines his experience in farming and business to help their network of farmers be sustainable both financially and in the field, including crop recommendations and food safety protocols. Near the end of the Q&A session there was some discussion about citric acid rates for organic producers to acidify their irrigation water. Here is a link that was shared: https://www.pthorticulture.com/en/training-center/acid-choices-for-reducing-water-alkalinity/Item The Vegetable Beet: Do's and Don't's For Submitting Samples and Reading Results(2020-06-11) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkOur first guest today is Lina Rodriguez-Salamanca, Extension Plant Pathologist and Diagnostician, at Iowa State University. In the ISU Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic, Lina focuses her efforts on disease diagnosis and its importance in disease management and IPM implementation. Our second guest is Kyle Broderick from the University of Nebraska Extension. As the Plant and Pest Diagnostics Extension Educator, Kyle coordinates the Plant & Pest Diagnostic Clinic we can help diagnose plant disease and insect problems and provide management recommendations.Item The Vegetable Beet: Predicting Pest Pressure(2020-06-19) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkHindsight 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 all mean? Our guests today are Dan Egel, vegetable pathologist from Purdue, Keith Mason, entomologist and Enviroweather station network manager from Michigan State University, and Cheryl Trueman, vegetable pathologist from the University of Guelph in Ontario. Together we discuss the weather tools available to growers for predicting both insects and diseases in vegetable crops. Here are some of the weather network resources that our guests shared.Prediction tools for diseases and insects that overwinter here Lots of models for Michigan - https://enviroweather.msu.edu/ Lots of models across the NE and Midwest - http://newa.cornell.edu/ Diseases for melons in Indiana - http://www.melcast.info/ Diseases for sugar beets in Michigan - http://www.michiganbeets.com/dsv.cfm Tracking tools for diseases and insects that blow-inForecasting "insect rains" moving on weather systems - http://www.insectforecast.com/ Tomato/potato late blight forecast for Michigan - https://www.canr.msu.edu/psbp/resources/disease-tools/late-blight-disease-forecast Tomato/potato late blight tracking nationwide - https://usablight.org/map/ Cucurbit downy mildew tracking in Michigan - https://veggies.msu.edu/downy-mildew-news/ Cucurbit downy mildew tracking nationwide - https://cdm.ipmpipe.org/ Corn earworm trap data for Indiana - https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/veg/cornearworm/Item The Vegetable Beet: Avoiding the Powdery Mildew Blues(2020-06-24) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkMeg 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 between crops, investigating factors that favor disease development, evaluating fungicides and resistant varieties, developing scouting protocols and action thresholds for timing the initiation of fungicide applications after disease detection. Here is the main page of resources that Meg has put together on this topic. https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/crops/cucurbits/cucurbit-powdery-mildew/ This page includes downloadable lists of varieties that are marketed as having resistance to powdery mildew (and other diseases and disorders), updated conventional fungicide recommendations, and also a comprehensive collection of microbial and oil-based fungicides that are OMRI-listed.Item The Vegetable Beet: Getting Elemental with Boron(2020-07-01) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkOur 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 nutrient management with particular emphasis on commercial vegetable and fruit crop production. Dan focuses on disease control in vegetable crops. We spoke to them today about what Boron does for plants, and what uses are advisable. Preventing disease? Killing weeds? Ensuring proper nutrition? Foliar or soil-applied?Item The Vegetable Beet: A Biostimulating Discussion(2020-07-08) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkOur 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 in this arena with new terms, claims, and a rapidly evolving industry. So, we have invited Matt to help us get it all straight. You can catch up with Matt's work on his Bugs in a Jug website.Item The Vegetable Beet: Irrigation Setups for Vegetables(2020-07-15) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkOur 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.canr.msu.edu/irrigation/ for more information on Specialty Crops irrigation.Specialty Crops Information Videos Irrigation Overview - Lyndon Kelley - https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/1_81hubozsMoisture Sensors - Dr. Younsuk Dong - https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/1_t6dgpqwuTrickle Irrigation Presentation - Phil Ausra of TRICKL-EEZ Irrigation - https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/1_ew36f1n6Trickle Irrigation Q&;A - https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/1_w89cbkai Water Resources - Lyndon Kelley - https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/1_yd2w4fos Also, check out What's Growing ON? Episode 5: Most Crop Per Drop for a nice in-depth discussion of irrigation as well!Item The Vegetable Beet: Managing Sweet Corn Caterpillars(2020-07-29) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkOur 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 trapping. Nothing beats the data collected from your own trap in your own field. But, there are a number of efforts to collect trapping data in a way grower's can reference. Here are a few in our region.Great Lakes and Maritimes Pest Monitoring Network 2020. This is an international trapping effort focused mainly on Western Bean Cutworm and True Armyworm. Purdue Corn Earworm Trapping Network. This brings you to the Purdue webpage about corn earworm, with a spreadsheet embedded at the bottom of the page with trap data from 6 sites. The Ohio State University Pest Trap Reports. There are 10 other pests that are trapped and logged here. Each link will open a Google Sheet with trap data.Item The Vegetable Beet: Late Summer Covers for Veggie Rotations(2020-07-22) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkOur 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-harvested vegetable, and into the fall. Are you covered?Item The Vegetable Beet: Managing soilborne diseases with biofumigation(2022-08-30) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkIn this episode, Natalie interviewed Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist from Cornell, and Jim Jasinski, IPM coordinator at Ohio State University, about using biofumigation to manage soilborne diseases. We discuss how it works and tips for growers who want to try it on their farms.Item The Vegetable Beet: Cleaning & Sanitizing Postharvest Equipment(2020-08-05) Great Lakes Vegetable Producers NetworkIt'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 sanitizing? How should postharvest practices change given novel coronavirus? Melanie Ivey (OSU) and Amanda Deering (Purdue) joined us to talk about food safety in the packinghouse. Here is the EPA List N of disinfectants that can be used against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/list-n-disinfectants-use-against-sars-cov-2-covid-19.