Ben Phillips

@MSUAgBio @MSUExtension Skip 5 minutes of dead air and spend 20 minutes seeing what I have been doing this summer.

Our Bay Area vegetable virtual field day is live on YouTube. Watch to learn about research on pickling cucumbers, sweet corn, cabbage and onions happening in Michigan's Thumb: youtube.com/watch?v=Amadft… #MSUVirtualFieldDays

Amish email = faxed tomato leaves.

@Jud_Reid If it helps broaden your spectrum, I grew an heirloom bell pepper last summer that set its fruit up-side-down.

@MSUBayVeg Yes, I'm just having a hard time with mirasol because every guajillo I've seen is pendant.

Delicious strawberry, or FOOD SAFETY SCARE? E. coli 0157:H7 lurks. Wash your fruits and vegetables and have a Happy Halloween!

It's head rot soup season. Just add dew, rain, bacteria, and alternaria to whole uncut broccoli and cauliflower.

That's a lot of nutsedge!

Why Your Insecticide May Not Be Working as Well as You Would Like vegcropshotline.org/article/why-yo…

@npkveg It is one of the better managed iPipe projects

Great interstate collaborations like this strengthen and add resilience to our produce systems. Love the CDM maps

As an entomologist, I'm a fly on the wall among master plant pathologists. Awesome interpersonal communication and updates among country-wide collaborators tackling cucurbit and basil downy mildew at the APS meeting in Boston. #downymildew #oomycete #ICPP2018

Keeping pickling cucumbers cool without a refrigerator. Stackable totes, 24 bags of ice, soggy shipping blankets, tarp, pallets and a bedsheet.

Stemphylium leaf blight has now been found in onion transplants in the Holland Marsh, weeks earlier than last year. Watch for tip dieback on the oldest leaves. If you have stemphylium in your field, we've seen the best results with a rotation of Luna Tranquility and Quadris Top.

Pepper Phytophthora blight diagnosed in Huron County, in northern OH. Peppers and cucurbits should be scouted statewide for Phytophthora blight. See go.osu.edu/CUcV for recommendations.

Saw an opportunity for a teachable moment while cleaning antifreeze from a new sprayer. The impact of boom height on drift potential cannot be overstated. Learn more here: sprayers101.com/esm-7/ #Spray18

Report of late blight on tomato in Syracuse area of NY on usablight.org/map

Vegetable pesticide series: Should I use it during bloom? | MSU Extension msue.anr.msu.edu/news/vegetable…

The movie, A Quiet Place, takes place 400+ days after some monsters that use an acute sense of sound to wipe out most of humanity in some rural Midwestern-looking area. But all I can think about is who planted, fertilized and weeded the corn without noisy tractors?

@Dennis_VanDyk Looks like quite a mulch expense. Is this done commonly?

Harvesting overwinter carrots. Who needs a cooler when you have Ontario winters.