Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Mar 1: nursery premium billing date
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Jan 31: nursery contract change date; potato sales closing/cancellation 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.
Date: June 10, 2014 5:30-8:45pmClick Image to View Program
Location: Donaldson Farms, 358 Allen Road, Hackettstown, NJ 07840.Third Annual North Jersey Twilight Fruit Meeting Featuring Strawberries and Tree Fruit.
Meeting will be held rain or shine.
Please RSVP to Diana Boesch at (908) 788-1339.
Registration Donation: $10.00 – Payable at the Meeting.
The severity of the current winter weather has growers and ag agents questioning how to accurately assess vineyard damage and develop a plan for coping with the damage through cultural management.
Fruit Specialist Dan Ward supplies comprehensive answers.
Cross sections of grapevine compound buds showing the location of primary (P), secondary (S), and tertiary (T) buds.
P bud is dead, while S and T buds are alive.
Photo courtesy WSU Extension
The hardiness of grape buds and wood ranges widely among cultivars and different antecedent weather and physiological conditions. Any estimate of cold hardiness needs to be considered as specific to either the buds or the wood, given the cultivar, under the previous Fall’s conditions for the development of hardiness, given the weather conditions preceding the cold event in question. [Read more…]
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center, 121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ
Accurate self-assessment of bud viability and fruitfulness is sound vineyard management when dealing with the effects of the unusually cold temperatures experienced this winter.
Join the Outer Coastal Plain Vineyard Association (OCPVA) and Rutgers NJAES for a free mini-workshop to train winegrape growers on the details of accurate cold injury damage assessment. Bring your own hand lens or other magnifier and, if you wish, some pieces of grape cane to evaluate.
