When: May 17 (Tuesday) @ 4 – 7 pm
Where: Duffields Farmers Market, 280 Chapel Heights Rd #9355, Sewell, NJ 08080
Approved Pesticide credits: CORE (1 credit) 1A, PP2, 10 (5 credits each) [Read more…]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
When: May 17 (Tuesday) @ 4 – 7 pm
Where: Duffields Farmers Market, 280 Chapel Heights Rd #9355, Sewell, NJ 08080
Approved Pesticide credits: CORE (1 credit) 1A, PP2, 10 (5 credits each) [Read more…]
When: May 4 (Wed) @ 4 PM
Where: Tomasello Winery: 225 N White Horse Pike, Hammonton, NJ 08037
Frank Salek Memorial Lecture, Sponsored by the Outer Coastal Plain Vineyard Association. Dennis Rak, owner of the Double A Vineyard Nursery will talk on ‘Grapevine Grafting: Fundamentals of Why and How’
Pesticide Recertification Credits: CORE (1 credit), PP2 (5 credit), 1 A (5 credit) [Read more…]
When: April 12 (Tuesday) @ 4 – 7 pm
Where: Summit City Orchards: 500 University Blvd. Glassboro, NJ 08028
Approved Pesticide credits: 1A, PP2, 10 (5 credits each)
Schedule
Field visit (in a bus) to a peach block. Field Demonstration and discussion on different rootstocks (Daniel Ward and Lewis DeEugenio), Comments on Orchard Soil Fumigation (Lewis DeEugenio), Observations of bud development in different peach varieties during frost nights (Hemant Gohil), and Field Observations from the IPM Program (Dave Schmitt).
Return to above address in the bus. Light fare will be served.
Indoor presentations: Fundamentals of Tree Fruit Nutrition and Orchard Soil Fertility (Joseph Heckman), Organic Weed Management in the Orchard (Thierry Besancon), Insect-pests Updates in Orchards (Anne Nielsen), Updates on Early Season Disease Control (Norman Lalancette), Coming Changes in the Structure of Fruit IPM Programming (Dean Polk)
7:00 pm Pesticide re-certification credits application and Adjourn
Light fare will be provided. Please call Joan Medany jmedany@co.gloucester.nj.us or call 856-224-8030 if you are planning to attend. If an additional assistance is needed, please contact Hemant Gohil (Program Organizer) at 856-224-8029 prior to the meeting.
New Jersey Department of Agriculture has issued a notice concerning open burning due to colder spring overnight temperatures presently forecasted for areas of New Jersey from March 22 through April 5th, 2022, which could adversely affect fruit, vegetable, and floriculture crops in bloom or near bloom around the state. For details read below the links.
Note: The NJDEP and New Jersey Forest Fire Service caution all farmers and agriculture businesses with respect to the use of open burning in high wind velocity conditions. Please take note that farmers are encouraged to utilize smudge pots is warming as necessary during higher wind conditions. Use of open burning when wind velocity is greater than 5mph is strictly prohibited, may contribute to wildfire risk, and can carry significant penalties. [Read more…]
South Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight meeting – I (In person)
March 22 (Tues) @ 7 PM
Gloucester County Government Building
1200 N. Delsea Drive, Bldg. # A, Clayton, NJ 08312
Topics
South Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight meeting – II (In person)
April 12 (Tues) @ 4 PM
Summit City Orchards, 500 University Blvd. Glassboro, NJ 08028
South Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight meeting – III (In person)
May 17 (Tues) @ 4 PM
280 Chapel Heights Rd #9355, Sewell, NJ 08080
Pesticide Credits will be provided (applied). If you have any questions, please contact Hemant Gohil gohil@njaes.rutgers.edu
A Cabernet Franc Wine Tasting Workshop was held on Nov 25th, 2019 at the Unionville Winery located at Ringoes in Northern New Jersey. The purpose of the meeting was to taste and evaluate Cabernet Franc wines released from NJ. A survey was sent out to the industry to report clones, harvest, and fermentation parameters. The survey respondents also formed the basis for the discussion at the workshop. [Read more…]