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Growers tell us:

"This is the one piece of mail that I read every week in the summer!”

Vegetable Notes is an eight-page newsletter for commercial vegetable growers, published weekly during the growing season and every six weeks during the winter months. When you subscribe to the UMass Extension Vegetable Notes Newsletter you will receive 4 to 5 issues published monthly during the winter and 18 to 20 weekly issues published during the growing season.

Subscription information for 2007 — hard copy or email edition.

Hard copy edition.

The cost to your business is $40 per year for the mailed hard-copy edition.  If you subscribe to the hard copy edition, you may also choose to receive the email edition. To subscribe to the hard copy edition, please

Download our subscription form and mail it in.

Email edition

The email edition is available at no charge. 

To subscribe to the email edition, send your request to umassvegetable@umext.umass.edu

or mail in the subscription form.

Please include your name, farm or organization name, address and phone number as well as your email address.

Subscribers receive a newsletter every week from mid May to September with timely, field-based information including:

• Weekly crop report with news of what's happening in the field across the state
• Updates for all major vegetable crops -- sweet corn, tomato, cucurbits, brassicas, peppers, potatoes
• Insects you need to know: life cycle, when and what to look for, how to manage them
• Disease alerts and management suggestions
• Weed management advice
• Chemical, cultural and biological controls including new products
• Weekly reports on sweet corn moth trap captures from all regions of Massachusetts
• The latest on cover crops, soils, irrigation and nutrients
• Twilight meeting announcements
• Options for both conventional and organic growers

Winter issues provide research reports, in-depth articles on production and marketing, updates on pest management methods and products, and information about educational programs and resources in the region. You can view archived editions of Vegetable Notes on our website. You may also contact us 413-545-3696 or at umassvegetable@umext.umass.edu for more information.