Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Hand washing stations are an important part of your farm food safety goals.
Stations must be located at all bathroom facilities, ideally outside of the bathroom and in public view. Research has shown that people are much more likely to wash their hands if someone is watching them. [Read more…]
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014 5:30pm
Location: RAREC, 121 Northville Rd, Bridgeton, NJ
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Join Rutgers for a twilight meeting in the field to learn about recent innovations for successful control of key vegetable diseases and weeds. Pesticide credits have been requested.
This is your opportunity to bring plant, insect, disease or weed problem samples for identification. Rutgers Cooperative Extension Ag Specialists and County Agents will be on hand for the field tour of research and demonstration plots on managing diseases of pepper, basil downy mildew, and cucurbit downy mildew. View weed control innovations and get updates on tomato variety development and ethnic African vegetables.
This week in U Del Weekly Crop Update:
Many weeds have started to flower in the past week or two. Weeds, depending on the species, will continue to flower from now until frost. I am often asked how soon after flowering are the seeds mature. We have some ongoing trials looking at this issue, but we have a few preliminary results to share.
First and foremost, seeds are mature shortly after flowering. By this I mean that within two weeks of flowering, the seeds on some plants are capable of germinating and contributing to the weed seedbank. So if you are pulling weeds (or mowing them or spraying them) to stop them from producing seeds, you should physically remove the weeds from the field because they may already have mature seeds.
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More late blight was reported in Pennsylvania this past week in Clinton, Lackawanna, and Berks Counties. The wet weather this past week as been ideal for its development across most of the mid-Atlantic region.
To date, no late blight has been reported in New Jersey on potatoes or tomato. However, all tomato and potato growers in New Jersey should be scouting and applying preventative fungicides on a regular basis.
For more information on late blight in PA see Late Blight is Spreading Across Pennsylvania.
Some may call it endoplasmic reticulum, some may run screaming from the blob, and still others might simply say that the dog just yacked in the yard. Me, I just call them cool and with all the rain and humidity in the last couple weeks, the Plant Diagnostic Lab has had a run on slime molds.
Slime mold (Physarum sp.) plasmodium on Kentucky bluegrass. Photo: Becky Sesnowich, Tinton Falls
