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April 11th is the earliest planting date for corn crop insurance policies
April 21st is the earliest planting date for grain sorghum crop insurance polices
April 30th is the contract change date for forage seeding policies
If you have any questions please contact your crop insurance agent or our office at 1-800-308-2449
Source: NJ Crop Insurance Education
If you have boxwoods on your property, bend over and take a listen. No, you haven’t suddenly become the plant whisperer! What you are hearing is not the boxwood talking, but the late-stage larvae of the boxwood leafminer, Monarthropalpusi flavus. It literally sounds like the snap, crackle and pop of a bowl of rice cereal. [Read more…]
From The Blueberry Bulletin April 3, 2013
Upcoming Twilight Meetings
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Variety Farms
548 Pleasant Mills Rd. Hammonton, NJ 08037
Thursday, May 30, 2013 @ 5:30
Atlantic Blueberry Co.
7201 Weymouth Rd., Hammonton, NJ
For Directions, Call 609-561-8600
Blueberry IPM
Plum Curculio: One adult was seen in a beating tray sample, indicating that adults became active during the warm temperatures we experienced last week. To see adults present before bloom as unusual. Adults were also captured in experimental attractant pyramid traps.
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Now is the time to monitor for two common diseases of Douglas fir: Rhabdocline needlecast (caused by the fungus Rhabdocline pseudotsugae) and Swiss needlecast (caused by the fungus Phaeocryptopus gäumannii). Rhabdocline needlecast is well established in New Jersey Christmas tree plantations, and Swiss needlecast has become more common. The discriminating grower wants to know, “what’s the difference?” [Read more…]
As the weather warms, Christmas tree growers and nursery folks are beginning to get back into their fields to select trees for digging or to assess field conditions. Recent samples in the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory suggest it would be prudent to keep an eye out for disease symptoms and signs that would have appeared or intensified over the winter. [Read more…]
Most annual and perennial weeds reproduce from seed, but many perennials also reproduce vegetatively. Examples of vegetative reproductive parts of weeds include stolens, rhizomes, roots, tubers, bulbs, and nutlets. Bermudagrass has stolens, which are above ground horizontal stems. Quackgrass spreads by rhizomes, which are underground horizontal stems. Canada thistle, milkweed, hemp dogbane, horsenettle, and bindweed species have a deep complex root system with distinct vertical and horizontal roots. Wild bean has tubers. Nutsedge has nutlets that can live dormant in the soil for several years. Perennial weeds are much more difficult to control than annual weeds. [Read more…]
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