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An Integrated Pest Management
Newsletter for Trees and Shrubs

 
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Branching Out

Branching Out logoBRANCHING OUT, an IPM Newsletter for Trees and Shrubs may be just the ticket if your woody ornamentals pest management program could benefit from timely, reliable field reports and up-to date management recommendations.

What is Branching Out?
Faculty and staff in Cornell's Department of Plant Pathology, in cooperation with Cornell Cooperative Extension educators scouting photothroughout the state, gather information for Branching Out via on-site scouting at selected locations from Long Island to Rochester, and they use that information together with tips from professional and trade literature to prepare articles of interest to you.

Paid subscribers can also access the newsletter on-line. (Click on the 2008 Issues button on the left). If you don't have the passwords AND are a PAID subscriber simply e-mail ddo1@cornell.edu and request the passwords. Please let us know under whose name the subscription is listed.

Bound Set
Looking for a good educational reference to learn about tree and shrub management? Try a bound collection of the 2007 season of the Branching Out newsletter. Only $20 for a bound set with laminated color cover.pdf icon

2006 Survey Results
100 of the subscribers were randomly chosen to receive an evaluation form in November, 2006. By February 7, 2007 sixty two had responded. The summarized results of the survey are available HEREpdf icon (77 KB).

   
Photos
Many of the photos were taken by our department photographer Kent Loeffler. See the Plant Pathology Photo Lab web site for more details.

Password Information
| 2007 Index | Other IPM Sites | Cornell Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic | Cornell University Department of Plant Pathology

 

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Each issue contains:

  • an up-to the-minute scouting report highlighting pest activity
  • in-depth feature articles
  • growing degree-day reports
  • other items of interest to tree care professionals

See About This Newsletter for more information.

Branching Out readers report:

  • their pest management activities are based on better information
  • they apply fewer pesticides
  • those pesticides they do apply are better directed at truly damaging pests (and at the appropriate time to control those pests).

Contact Us
ddo1@cornell.edu