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Invitation to the Virginia Tech Tidewater AREC “Early Summer Row Crops Tour” on June 6, 2013

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The “Early Summer Row Crops Tour” will be held at the Tidewater AREC Research Farm (1045 Hare Road, Suffolk, VA) on Thursday, June 6, 2013. There is no preregistration and no fee for attending this tour. The program will begin promptly at 9:00 am and will conclude with lunch (courtesy of Berry Lewis with Bayer CropScience). All interested in commercial production of field crops are invited to attend. We will provide further details once the agenda is finalized. If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact the Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center at 757-657-6450 (TDD number is 800-828-1120) during business hours of 8 am and 4:30 pm to discuss accommodations five days prior to the event.

Oversite in Acknowledgements

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We very much regret the oversight in not listing the following companies in the acknowledgements section of our annual report, 2012 Insect Pest Management in Virginia Cotton, Peanut and Soybean, AREC-37NP: AMVAC, FMC and BASF. Funding for our program is critical as are the valuable collaborations and partnerships we have with many companies and their representatives. I hate that we slipped up on this and we apologize. We are looking forward to a new season and are already making plans for a productive season. Thank you for your support of our insect pest management program. Ames Herbert

Ames Herbert’s 2012 annual research summary book now available online

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Ames Herbert’s annual research summary book, “2012 Insect Pest Management in Virginia Cotton, Peanut, and Soybean,” is now available on the Virginia Cooperative Extension website: http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/AREC/AREC-37/AREC-37.html (the publication number is AREC-37NP). It is a 3MB pdf file. Thanks to all those who supported our entomological research program in 2012.

Prevathon is now approved by EPA for use on soybean

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Dupont has received EPA approval to add soybeans and oilseed crops (including sunflowers and canola) to the Prevathon® label. Pending state registrations we expect to have Prevathon® available for the soybean, sunflower and canola crops for the 2013 growing season. Prevathon is the active ingredient chlorantaniliprol and has excellent activity against lep pests including corn earworm, armyworm species and others.

Corn earworm/brown marmorated stink bug black light trap catches for week ending Sep. 6, 2012

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Warsaw saw high corn earworm moth activity in their black light trap this week (average of 88 per night); other locations were under 11 per night. Brown marmorated stink bug reports ranged from zero to 5 per night. Please see the attached tables (pdf document) for more details. Additional information: sep6blt-pdf