Document Type
Report
Publisher
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station and Maine Cooperative Extension Service
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Publication Date
Winter 1989
Publisher location
Orono, ME
Abstract/ Summary
The 1988 edition of the Blueberry Advisory Committee Research Reports was prepared for the Maine Wild Blueberry Commission and the University of Maine Wild Blueberry Advisory Committee by researchers with the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station and Maine Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Maine, Orono. Projects in this report include:
1. Monitoring methods, economic injury levels, and action thresholds for blueberry spanworm larvae in vegetative year fields.
2. Control of secondary blueberry pests
3. Control of blueberry maggot
4. Effect of pruning practices on blueberry insect abundance
5. Survey of Fungi Contaminating Lowbush Blueberries
6. Nutrition Survey 1988
7. Phosphorus Dose/Response Curve
8. Effect of Several Mulches on Frost Heaving, Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature and Rhizome Development
9. Influence of Mulch Sources on Clonal Spread-SCS Study, Deblois
10. Effect of Surface Mulches on Stabilizing Lowbush Blueberry Soil in Barren Areas
11. Nitrogen-Phosphorus Study
12. Changes in Sugar and Organic Acids of Blueberries During Development, Preprocess Lag Time and Storage
13. Characterization of Pectin in Blueberries
14. Effect of Hexazinone (VELPAR) on Species Distribution in Lowbush Blueberry Fields
15. Evaluation of Setyhoxydim (POAST) for Bunchgrass Control
16. Evaluation and modification of commercial wipers
17. Evaluation of Five Preemergence Herbicides for Control of Oatgrass and Bunchgrass
18. Effect of rate and formulation of hexazinone (VELPAR) on bunchberry
19. Bracken fern control alternatives
20. Hexazinone (VELPAR) and terbacil (SINBAR) combinations for weed control
21. Evaluation of hexazinone (VELPAR) with spot treatments of glyphosate (ROUNDUP) or sethoxydin (POAST) for bunchgrass control
22. Directed sprays of glyphosate (ROUNDUP) for bunchberry control.
23. Evaluation of Postemergence Applications of Chlorimuron for Bunchberry Control
24. Seedling Pruning Study
25. Blueberry Harvester Trials
26. Blueberry Extension Program
Repository Citation
Forsythe, H Y. Jr; Collins, Judith A.; Lambert, David; Smagula, John M.; DeGomez, Tom; Erich, Susan; Goltz, Mike; King, Joan M.; Bushway, Rodney J.; Bushway, Alfred A.; Hepler, Paul R.; Yarborough, David E.; Emerson, Delmont C.; and Marra, Michele, "Blueberry Advisory Committee Research Report" (1989). Wild Blueberry Research Reports. 31.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/blueberry_resreports/31
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