Sweet corn at tassel and beyond, peppers and snap beans with fruit, should be treated to prevent fruit damage . Consult Extension bulletin E-312 for insecticides registered to control European corn borer. There was no rain over our area this last week. Even with one of the warmest weeks of the summer just ending, we find our accumulated degree days, base 50, now putting us more than 16 calendar days behind the 30-year normal. Fog nearly every morning this last week has indeed increased plant disease pressures.
Commodities report Sweet corn continues to be available.
Many growers have late plantings, which will take them through September. Rust continues to plague untreated fields. European corn borer adults in traps this week averaged 22 per trap, which is constant with last week's numbers. Corn earworms are still present in low numbers. Many growers are reporting heavy worm pressure even in treated fields.