Archives for April 2015

2015 NJ Commercial Pest Control Recommendations

Updated for 2015, the commercial blueberry and cranberry pest control recommendations for NJ are available for download from Rutgers NJAES.

Commercial Blueberry Pest Control Recommendations for New Jersey, 2015
Oudemans, P.
Majek, B.
Pavlis, G.
Polk, D.
Rodriguez-Saona, C.
Ward, D.

Commercial Cranberry Pest Control Recommendations for New Jersey, 2015
Oudemans, P.
Majek, B.
Rodriguez-Saona, C.

Looks Like Grass… But It Isn’t

Other than today and yesterday, soil temperatures in New Brunswick have been reaching into the lower 50s°F during the last week or so. And you see the effects, some plants are finally awakening from winter slumber. Cool-season turfgrasses are slowly greening up. Tree buds are swelling, some are flowering. Forsythia is just starting to bloom. And prostrate knotweed, one of the earliest germinating summer annual weeds, is emerging.

Some confuse the slender plants emerging along sidewalk edges at this time of year with grass but it is actually prostrate knotweed.

Some confuse the slender plants emerging along sidewalk edges at this time of year with grass but it is actually prostrate knotweed.


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Commercial Vegetable Twilight Meeting April 23, 2015

The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agricultural Agents of Atlantic, Cumberland and Gloucester Counties invite you to the first commercial vegetable twilight meeting of the 2015 season to discuss early spring crop pest control, label updates and management topics. Feel free to bring plant, insect, disease, or weed samples to the meeting to have them identified, or perhaps you can stump the experts. Please bring samples in sealed plastic bags.
Pesticide Recertification Credits have been requested for this meeting.

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: East Vineland Fire Hall, Landis Ave. across from the Savoy Restaurant
(park behind the building and enter conference room door in rear)

Agenda

  • 7:00pm Weed Control – Review of the Basics
    –Rick VanVranken, RCE Atlantic
  • 7:30pm Economic Benefits of Maintaining Native Pollinator Habitat
    –Elizabeth Schuster, Environmental Economist, The Nature Conservancy
  • 7:50pm NRCS Programs Supporting IPM/Organic Transition/Pollinator Habitat
    –Nicholas Saumweber, District Conservationist, NRCS
  • 8:10pm Early Season Insect Pests and Insecticide Updates
    –Joe Mahar, Vegetable IPM Coordinator
  • 8:30pm Vegetable Disease Control Options for Spring Crops
    –Dr. Andy Wyenandt, RAREC
  • 9:00pm Pesticide Regs & Worker Protection Standards Update for the Coming Season
    –Michelle Infante-Casella, RCE Gloucester
  • 9:30pm Questions & Answers

NJ Crop Insurance News Reminder

Apr 15: soybean earliest planting date

Created to inform New Jersey ag producers about crop insurance, the Garden State Crop Insurance Education Initiative Team makes available important information through multiple media outlets. Get the latest news by visiting the website or follow via blog, Facebook, or Twitter.

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