Mid-July has arrived and the 2015 peach harvest season has begun in earnest. As each successive crop of fruit mature and ripen, they become susceptible to infection by the brown rot fungal pathogen, Monilinia fructicola. Since spores of this pathogen require water to germinate, the number of fruit infection periods and therefore severity of the 2015 epidemic will be very much dependent on the number of rainfalls.
January 30, 2015 Norman Lalancette
South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Meeting
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Time: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center
121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJPre-Registration: Required, by February 4th
Contact Karen Holton at holton@aesop.rutgers.edu
856-455-3100 x4104Cost/person: $15.00
Lunch: Included
Pesticide Credits: Awarded for Cat 10, 1A, Core, PP2
Program details: Norm Lalancette
856-455-3100 x4124
January 13, 2015 Norman Lalancette
Tree Fruit Meeting for Commercial Growers
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 @ 8:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center, 121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJPesticide Credits Awarded | Lunch will be Served | Program to Follow
For pre-registration contact: Karen Holton at holton@aesop.rutgers.edu or 856-455-3100 x4104
For program details contact: Norm Lalancette at 856-455-3100 x4124
The 2015 South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, February 10 and will be held at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center (RAREC), Bridgeton, NJ.
The meeting will consist of presentations on horticulture, entomology, weed science, and pathology of tree fruits during the morning, followed by an included lunch. An open discussion and question session on any aspect of tree fruit production is scheduled for after lunch. The full program will be published in the upcoming weeks.
Pre-registration is required and a fee will be charged to cover the cost of morning coffee/pastries and lunch.
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May 27, 2014 Norman Lalancette
Major Hail Storm Hits RAREC Research Farm
A major rain and hail storm occurred at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Bridgeton during last Thursday evening, 22May. Hail stones the size of marbles fell for about 15 minutes. [Read more…]
May 15, 2014 Norman Lalancette
Copper Bactericides for Peach Bacterial Spot Management
Fruit Infection
Effective management of bacterial spot on peach and nectarine necessitates application of bactericides during the post-bloom cover spray period. Early fruit infections during the first two to three weeks of this period generally result in large, deeply pitted blackened lesions that often ooze with sap. Later season fruit lesions are less pitted and much more shallow, but can be numerous, particularly on highly susceptible cultivars. Either way, considerable yield loss can occur on susceptible cultivars when the environment is favorable and/or inoculum levels are high. [Read more…]
April 3, 2014 Norman Lalancette
Fungicides for Peach Blossom Blight Management
There was a time when a grower only needed to consider the efficacy and price when deciding what fungicide to employ for disease control. However, as companies sought to discover fungicides that were more effective and less toxic to the environment and non-target organisms, the fungicides also became more site-specific. As a result, these newer fungicides were much more prone to resistance development by the pathogen. So, now growers must also consider resistance management along with efficacy and price when deciding what fungicide to apply.
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