College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News Vol. 9, No. 14, September 11, 2003 a newsletter for commercial growers of fruit and vegetable crops "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle Address any questions or comments regarding this newsletter to the individual authors listed after each article or to its editor, Rick Weinzierl, 217-333-6651,
[email protected]. The Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News is available on the web at: http://www.ipm.uiuc.edu/ifvn/index.html . To receive email notification of new postings of this newsletter, call or write Rick Weinzierl at the number or address above. This issue's words of wisdom ... which usually means the jokes ... are at the end of newsletter ... check the last page. In this issue ... Upcoming Extension Program (Illinois-Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Conference, November 13) Crop Reports (from Elizabeth Wahle and Maurice Ogutu) Notes from Chris Doll (weather and phenology, rain and fruit cracking, large apples, nitrogen for strawberries) Fruit Production and Pest Management (yellowjackets, late season codling moth control, Asian multicolored lady beetle control) Vegetable Production and Pest Management (vectors of pumpkin viruses, Leps in cole crops) University of Illinois Extension Specialists in Fruit & Vegetable Production & Pest Management Illinois-Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Conference: This annual Quad Cities meeting is scheduled for 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on November 13, 2003, in Bettendorf, Iowa. Details will follow in later issues of this newsletter, but if you need additional information right away, contact Martha Smith, Horticulture Educator at the Macomb Extension Center, at 309-836-3366 or
[email protected].