Dates: August 12 & 13, 2015
See flyer for locations and agenda.
Winegrape Twilight Meetings: North & South Jersey
Performing a Detailed Inspection of Wine Grape Planting Material
Source Planting Materials from Quality Nurseries
The best way to begin ensuring that you have good, healthy and productive grapevines is to source planting material from nurseries that provide clean materials or certified vines. Planting material from nurseries that follow quality assurance protocols reduces the chances of getting diseased or weak planting material.
Certified material means cuttings come from a source block that was properly managed, subjected to regular inspections for insect pests, disease damage, and tested for virus right from propagation through packaging. These nurseries also go through independent third party audits.
Make sure that planting material comes with documents or labels that will help in tracing plants back to the original source. Each bundle of vines should have proper labels describing primary information such as variety, clone, rootstock and some kind of batch number. Make sure your planting material was shipped promptly after packing and came in a temperature-controlled vehicle. Presently there are no certified nurseries in New Jersey; however, there are several certified nurseries available in California and few in Oregon, Washington and New York. [Read more…]
South Jersey Twilight Tree Fruit Meetings
Dates: April 7 and April 28, 2015
Time: 7 – 9PM
Location: Gloucester County Government Services Building
1200 N. Delsea Dr., Clayton, NJ 08312-1095Commercial tree fruit growers are invited to discuss production, insect, and disease management issues with NJAES Specialists, Rutgers Cooperative Extension County Agents, and the Fruit IPM team.
NJDEP Pesticide Recertification Credits are offered: CORE (2 units), Private Applicator 1A (4 units), Commercial Applicator (4 units), and Category 10 (2 units).
View the programs for details.
Twilight Tree Fruit Meeting I (April 7, 2015)
Twilight Tree Fruit Meeting II (April 28, 2015)