Welcome to our Agronomic Spotlights Library. We at Seminis developed these Spotlights to serve as an educational resource for growers, breeders and everyone in between. Immerse yourself in a wide range of critical topics including pollination science, disease and pest resistance, seed treatments and best management practices for specific crops.
To learn more about Darin Eastburn, the author of these Spotlights, please click here. For access to each of our Agronomic Spotlights by crop type, see below. You can click each link to download a full PDF.
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- Variety Selection For Fresh Market Tomato Production
- Management of Fusarium Wilt in Watermelon
- Best Management Practices for Cucumbers
- Proper Use of Bees for Optimal Pollination in Watermelon
- Selecting Pepper Varieties
- Understanding Sweet Corn Populations
- Postharvest Sweet Corn Handling and Storage
- Nematode Conrtol in Fresh Market Tomatoes
- Variety Selection for Fresh Market Tomato Production
- Viral Diseases in Fresh Market Tomatoes
- Fungal Foliar Diseases of Onion
- Sweet Corn Harvest - Quality and Safety
- Corn Earworm Management Monitoring and Stewardship
- Fresh Market Tomato Pruning
- Managing Downy Mildew in Cucumbers
- Powdery Mildew on Peppers
- Production and Market Management in Beans
- Tomato Spotted Wilt and Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl in Fresh market Tomatoes
- In-Season Control of Weed and Bird Pests of Peppers
- Managing Head Rot in Broccoli
- Resistance to Insecticides in Sweet Corn Insects
- Bee Focused on Pollination
- Some Important Cucumber Insect Pests
- Fungicides and Organic Production in Sweet Corn
- Understanding Flowering Habits in Cucumbers
- Root and Stem Diseases of Onion
- Soil Fumigation and Pepper Production
- Understanding Seed Treatments for Sweet Corn
- Identifying and Managing Diseases in Melons
- Viral Diseases of Bean
- In-Season Control of Pepper Diseases and Insect Pests
- Understanding Leaf Spots in Peppers
- Understanding Carrot Populations
- Spacing and Configuration of Pollenizers in Watermelon
- Thrips Management in Onion
- Mid-Late Season Sweet Corn Insects
- Sucking Insects in Peppers
- Fungal Foliar Diseases of Onion
- Bacterial Diseases of Beans
- Sweet Corn Stalk Quality
- Broccoli Harvest Management
- Seedling and Root Diseases of Beans
- Bacterial Spot and Speck in Fresh Market Tomatoes
- Selecting Pepper Varieties
- Selecting Sweet Corn Varieties
- Best Management Practices for Broccoli
- Seed Treatment Options for Onion Products
- Optimizing the Use of Biotech Sweet Corn
- Bacterial Diseases in Onion
- Sweet Corn Disease Guide
- Sweet Corn Growth Stages and GDU's
- Managing Brown Bead and Hollow Stem in Broccoli
- Bacterial Canker and Wilt in Fresh Market Tomatoes
- Selecting Bean Varities
- Foliar Fungal Diseases of Bean
- Identifying and Managing Melon Insects
- Tools and Talking Points for Biotech Sweet Corn
- Pepper Stip
- Benefits of Glucosinolates in Broccoli
- Selecting Onion Varieties
- Managing Downy Mildew in Broccoli
- Root and Stem Diseases of Onion
- Plasticulture vs. Bare Ground Production of Watermelon
- Watermelon Nutrient Analysis
- Managing the Bagrada Bug in Broccoli
- Some Important Cucumber Diseases
- Bacterial Fruit Blotch of Watermelon
- Phytophthora in Peppers