The 1999 Fees for Diagnostic Services are being are being announced today, April 15. A list of the 1999 Diagnostic Services fees is included below. Diagnostic Services will post a new web site on April 19. Diagnostic Services staffing plans There were 16 candidates for the plant disease diagnostician position. Three individuals have been interviewed and Diagnostic Services is in the final stages of filling the position.
Current plans call for adding a weed science diagnostician to the program.
Diagnostic Services will have a representative participating in all of the 1999 Field Crop CAT conference phone calls that facilitate each newsletter issue. After a splendid fall, the first day of winter was winter-like. Spring green up of plants began on the first day of spring. Even with lots of winter snow, soil moisture has been a bit low, though that looks to change if we have a wet Spring forecast. Soil temperatures have been bouncing around, with as much as 22 hours above 50 degrees on April 7 and no hours above 50 degrees on April 11.