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Song is Chances by Silent Partner, accessed through YouTube Audio Library.

Ben Werling and Florencia Colella interview Benita Meekhof, from the Farm Service Agency about CFAP 2, the renewed and modified COVID-19 support program that specialty crop growers definitely need to check out.

Visit farmers.gov/cfap/specialty, call your FSA office, and apply by December 11!

Here is a compilation of all the sponsor ads from the 2020 season. Wow, it's nearly 12 minutes long!

00:25 Miracle Carp
01:15 Larry's Leaning Pumpkins
01:59 Half-Baked High Tunnels
03:35 The Dissipation Station
04:16 The Bubble
05:04 The Letter B
05:23 Macro Bio Bros
06:30 Brassica No. 5
07:03 Bobby's Cobby Lobby and Sweet Corn Emporium Multi-Purpose Fishing Corn
08:44 A World Without Lorsban [TRAILER]
09:33 WBIN The Bin

For real though, the North Central Integrated Pest Management Center and USDA-NIFA were sponsors. Let's hope they never hear this.

We're in the final stretch for pumpkin season, with market demand increasing in mid-September through the end of October. We have Brad Bergefurd and Nathan Johanning on this week to calm your jitters, and answer your questions about what can and can't be done at this point in the season. 

This year both University of Illinois and The Ohio State University offered virtual field days for their pumpkin variety trials. See those at the links below!

2020 Illinois Pumpkin Virtual Field Day
https://extension.illinois.edu/events/2020-09-03-2020-pumpkin-field-day

2020 Ohio Pumpkin Virtual Field Day
https://u.osu.edu/jasinski.4/pumpkins/

How can growers living with this devastating disease of cucurbits, peppers and tomatoes produce a harvestable crop? We invited Dr. Christine Smart to discuss this perplexing pathogen. Dr. Smart works on the "Phytophthora farm" at Cornell University, land which is dedicated to researching solutions growers can use to deal with this disease.

Chlorpyrifos pesticide registrations are on their way out, due to human health risks. What will fill the gaps for key pests and vegetable crops? Our guests are Brian Nault , Faruque Zaman, and Dan Gilrein of Cornell University.

Summary of regulatory actions for chlorpyrifos at EPA

The Brassica Pest Collaborative

Growers can also send a request in via the IR-4 website to petition for a needed pesticide (organic or conventional) use for onion maggot, cabbage maggot or any other pests/diseases/weeds needing management alternatives. 

Links to talks given by Brian Nault:
Onion Fly Pest Management - 2020 Empire EXPO
Cabbage Maggot Management - 2020 Empire EXPO

Bells are boring! This is a show for those seeking hot head and ethnic markets with peppers that make tongues sizzle. Our guests are Ben Phillips, from MSU, and Charlie Rohwer, from University of Minnesota. 

Trial results can be found at bit.ly/mwvegtrials 

It'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.

Our 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.

Our 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?