Welcome to the New England Greenhouse Update

Welcome to the New England Greenhouse Update for commercial growers of greenhouse crops and flowers. University Extension Specialists contribute pest messages and other information to this website from current observations at greenhouses in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

New for spring 2012
Jim Mussoni will be contributing information to the pest messages. Jim Mussoni has been a private IPM consultant since 1989. He has worked with tree fruit, small fruit and vegetable growers since then. He began working with greenhouse bedding plant and tomato growers since 1990. Jim was a research assistant at UMass from 1987-1989. He  is a graduate of Stockbridge School of Agriculture and has a B.S. from UMass in Integrated Pest Management. 

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The University of Massachusetts and University of Connecticut Extension Floriculture Programs support the greenhouse industry with researched based information on environmentally safe production practices. Educational activities include newsletters, publications, workshops, conferences, training programs, diagnostic services and research.

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University of Massachusetts Extension Greenhouse Crops and Floriculture Program

and University of Connecticut Integrated Pest Management Program.

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