Extension Bookstore

Selected titles currently available at the UMass Extension Bookstore:

2006-07 New England Vegetable Management Guide
A comprehensive guide for commercial vegetable growers with information on current production and pest management techniques. Each crop section discusses cultural, weed, insect and disease management. An extensive introduction with on cultural practices, nutrient and soil management, and pesticide use has expanded sections on irrigation, biorationals, greenhouse transplant production. Recommendations include IPM and organic techniques and approved organic pesticides are identified.

This manual is a compilation of input from the members of the New England Vegetable Working Group representing vegetable programs at the Universities of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. The Guide is designed to provide commercial growers with technical information on crop production, including cultural practices, nutrient and soil management, and pest management (weeds, diseases and insects).

For each crop, the Guide lists recommended cultural practices, fertilization, and information on management of important pests including pesticides, integrated pest management practices for monitoring, thresholds organic recommendations and alternatives to pesticides wherever possible. Because this is a publication written by professionals from throughout New England, and rewritten every two years, it reflects the current collective knowledge for vegetable production for this region.

NEW! A Pest Identification Supplement, with color photographs of every disease, insect and weed that is described in the Guide, is also available for an additional $5.00.

Cost: $15.00 (plus shipping and handling, $5.00 for the first item, $1.00 for each additional item). To order, call (413) 545-5538 or visit the UMass Extension Bookstore

The Guide is also available online at www.nevegetable.org

Northeast Pepper IPM Manual: A great resource for pepper growers!
In this guide, the concept of "integrated pest management' is taken to its fullest possible extent. Pepper varieties, transplant production, fertilizers and lime, enterprise budgets, weeds, greenhouse peppers are all covered. In addition there are chapters on all the major and minor insect and disease pests of peppers in the Northeast. The twenty-three chapters are full of color photographs and easy-to-read tables and figures. The general discussions of the IPM approach to pest management are useful guides for any vegetable crop. Extension specialists from all over the Northeast region contributed to this guide.

Pepper guides can be ordered for from the UMass Extension Bookstore, Draper Hall, 40 Campus Center Way, UMass Amherst 01003-9244, or call 413-545-2717. Visa, Mastercard or check can be used. Cost is $19.95.

Organic Insect Management in Sweet Corn
Provides organic solutions to controlling corn earworm, European corn borer, and fall armyworm. Includes photo supplement with 22 color plates.

OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE AT THE BOOKSTORE:

NEW ENGLAND SWEET CORN PRODUCTION AND IPM MANUAL
Numerous illustrations and photographs enhance this comprehensive guide to IPM techniques in sweet corn production. Includes weed, nutrient, disease and insect management, cover crops, and scouting techniques and thresholds for IPM. $25.00 AG-CTCR

WEEDS OF THE NORTHEAST
Numerous illustrations and color photographs complement this manual's detailed text on common and economically important weeds in the region south to Virginia, north to Maine and southern Canada, and west to Wisconsin. This practical guide gives anyone who works with plants, from commercial growers to home gardeners, the ability to identify weeds before they flower. $29.95 AG-WDNE

NATURAL ENEMIES OF VEGETABLE INSECT PESTS
This manual contains 85 color photographs and numerous drawings of 25 key groups of natural enemies, including insect predators, parasitoids, and diseases. More than 90 beneficial species are described with information on appearance and life cycle, pests attacked, and vegetable crops in which these natural enemies are important and commercially available. $16.95 AG-NEVP

DISEASES AND PESTS OF VEGETABLE CROPS IN CANADA
A practical guide providing information on infectious and non-infectious diseases, insect, mite, nematode, mollusk and weed pests of all major and minor vegetable crops including: asparagus, corn, crucifers, cucurbits, fruiting vegetables, eggplant, garlic, ginseng, greenhouse vegetables, herbs and spices, lettuce and other greens, mushrooms and others. Provides information on symptoms/damage, disease cycle and epidemiology/life cycle and management of important diseases and pests of vegetable crops. $50.00 AG-DPVC

FARMERS AND THEIR SWEET CORN PRODUCTION PRACTICES
New England growers present their own farms and practices in this video on innovative production practices for sweet corn. Includes cover cropping, use of composting, PSNT test, alternative weed and insect management techniques. $15.00 IP-SCPP

BIOINTENSIVE SWEET CORN ICM PROJECT: 1994-96 ON-FARM TRIALS
Recommendations on using Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to control the European corn borer, based on three years of on farm trials. $3.00 IP-CICM

MANAGING SWEET CORN PESTS IN MASSACHUSETTS
The foundation for sweet corn IPM in Massachusetts, this fact sheet gives details on pheremone trapping and scouting, thresholds and pest ID. Includes 20 color photos. FREE IP-CORN

A GUIDE TO WEED MANAGEMENT IN SWEET CORN
Strategies for effective chemical and non-chemical weed control including reduced-rate techniques
for herbicides. FREE IP-WMSC

SWEET CORN IPM: INSECT PEST MANAGEMENT
Demonstrates how to use traps and scouting in sweet corn. 30 minute VHS video tape.
$15.00 IP-CTAP

MASSACHUSETTS IPM GUIDELINES: CROP SPECIFIC DEFINITIONS Best management practices for apple, cole crops, cranberry, field and greenhouse tomato, highbush blueberry, peppers, poinsettia, potato, pumpkin & winter squash, raspberry, strawberry, sweet corn, and wine grape. $6.00 IP-IPMA

BUILDING SOILS FOR BETTER CROPS This 240-page guide contains detailed information about soil structure and the management practices that affect soils, as well as practical information like how to interpret soil test results. Includes soil-building strategies such as increasing soil organic matter, using appropriate tillage, reducing erosion and methods to avoid and decrease soil compaction. $19.95 AG-BSBC