Fred Springborn and Roger Peacock...Summer weather is here today, September 3, we just need several more weeks of it to mature crops. Frost advisories were out this past Monday and Tuesday. Only trace amounts of frost were observed with no significant crop damage. Will crops mature before frost is the question on everyone’s mind?

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Willie Kirk and Jan Byrne...On July 29, the MSU Diagnostic Services center at MSU received a tomato plant that had late blight on both the fruit and foliage. This sample was from a home gardener in Gratiot county. There has been a severe outbreak of late blight on tomatoes in the Northeast, in states including New York.

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