Rutgers University | New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station | Pesticide User Responsibility

September 30, 2025

Farming Twilight Meeting – October 23

October Farming Twilight Meeting

October 23, 2025
5:00PM – 7:30 PM

Location:
Rea’s Farm Market
400 Stevens Street
West Cape May NJ  08204

 

Program

4:30 PM – Registration / Light Refreshments

5:00 PM – Welcome – Claudia Gil Arroyo, Cape May County Agent III; Rutgers NJAES

5:10 PM – Using Data to Drive Sales

Claudia Gil Arroyo, Cape May County Agent III; Rutgers NJAES

5:45 PM – IPM: Identifying Thrips & Tomato Spotted Wilted Virus (TSWV)

Maria Cramer, Senior Program Coordinator Vegetable IPM, Rutgers NJAES

6:20 PM – IPM Program Implementation in Ornamental Crops

Timothy Waller, Cumber County Agent III, Nursery; Rutgers NJAES

6:55 PM – What I’ve learned about blueberry growing over the past 40 years

Gary Pavlis, Atlantic County CEDH & County Agent II; Rutgers NJAES

 

Light refreshments will be served.

The following pesticide recertification credits will be awarded: 1A (2 units), 3A (1 unit), 10 (3 units), PP2 (3 units)

Please RSVP by October 20, 2025:
Jocelyn Shillingford 609-465-5115 ext. 3607 or capemayag@njaes.rutgers.edu

 

 

 

 

 

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September 29, 2025

In-person CEU session – 10/20/25 – Cumberland Co. RCE

‘Core Pesticide Topics in Agriculture’ 
NJDEP Approved Credits [4 units each – CORE] [3 units each – PP2, 1A, 3A, 10] [1 unit each – 3B, 6B, 8C]

Register by calling (only): 856-451-2800 ext. 1

Date: 10/20/2025 (Monday)
Location: Rutgers Cooperative Extension – Cumberland County
Address: 291 Morton Ave. Millville, NJ 08332
Time: 5:30pm sign-in, 6:00-8:15pm lectures (please arrive prior to 6:00pm)
Cost: $30 fee per participant – only cash or checks will be accepted at the start of the event. Please make checks payable to “Rutgers The State Univ. of NJ”. Receipts will be available.
Seminars: (6-7pm) Back to Basics – Pesticide USE & (7:15-8:15pm) How Chemicals Work and Which to Use – Speaker: Tim Waller, PhD. 

 

Note: October 7th – Ornamental Twilight meeting has been postponed until Spring 2026

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Veg IPM Update 9/19/25

An allium leafminer adult (A) and oviposition scars (B). Photos by Maria Cramer and Amanda Quadrel

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! Sweet Corn Corn is wrapping up very slowly with the cool weather we’re having. Meanwhile, corn earworm (CEW) moth captures are staying high — many locations need 3-day spray intervals (see map). If temperatures get high (>85 degrees F), shorten the spray interval by one day. Rotation is important […]

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Save the Dates – Sept. 23 (Final IPM webinar), Oct 7 (POSTPONED), Oct 22 (Core Credit, In-person)

Join us for the Final Ornamental IPM webinar Tuesday 9/23/25  Still time to Sign up (click here) for the final remaining 2025 session Topics to be covered: Beneficial insect: Preying mantids​ Mums   ​ White pine aphid​ Eastern spruce gall adelgid​ Cooley spruce gall adelgid​ Hemlock woolly adelgid​ Spruce spider mite​ Southern red spider mite​ Hemlock […]

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