February 11, 2014

South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Grower Meeting POSTPONED to Feb 14

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning from 7 pm Wednesday 12Feb  to 1 pm Thursday 13Feb  for Southeastern New Jersey and adjoining states.  Snow accumulations of 3-6 inches are expected with significant amounts of sleet and ice.  This will make travel very hazardous or impossible.

Given these forecasted weather conditions, the South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Grower Meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday Feb. 13 at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Bridgeton, has been postponed.
The meeting will take place one day later, on Friday Feb. 14th, at the same location and starting time of 8 am.

If anyone pre-registered for the original meeting time cannot make the new time, please contact Karen Holton at (856) 455-3100 ext. 4104 to cancel.

 

Filed Under: Tree Fruit
January 31, 2014

South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Grower Meeting

Date:    Thursday, February 13, 2014
Time:   8:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location:  Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center
121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tree Fruit
January 15, 2014

2014 Tree Fruit Meetings for Commercial Growers

A full slate of tree fruit meetings sponsored by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Rutgers Cooperative Extension have been scheduled for the upcoming 2014 growing season.
The season begins with:

  • South Jersey Tree Fruit Meeting – February 13 @ RAREC Note: New Date Feb 14
  • North Jersey Fruit Meeting – March 7 @ Warren Grange

These annual “winter” meetings are followed by a series of evening fruit meetings in both northern and southern NJ throughout April, May, and early June. Some of these latter evening meetings will be at grower sites. The meeting season culminates with the RAREC Fruit Research Field Day on June 26, which will include visits to research vineyards as well as orchards.
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Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Tree Fruit
July 8, 2013

Integrated Preharvest Fungicide Programs for Brown Rot

There was a time when selection of a fungicide for brown rot control was based solely on efficacy and cost of the product. However, the brown rot pathogen, Monilinia fructicola, has become resistant to DMI fungicides and to some extent QoI fungicides in many stone fruit growing regions in the eastern United States. This occurrence has underscored the need for a greater degree of integration of different fungicide chemistries as a resistance management strategy. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tree Fruit
April 12, 2013

Integrated Fungicide Programs for Early Season Apple Disease Control

Early season season disease control on apple, which is defined in this article as the period from 1/2″ green to second cover, consists of simultaneous management of apple scab, powdery mildew, and cedar apple rust. Of these three diseases, the primary target is typically apple scab. During this period, the initial scab inoculum in the form of ascospores infects both leaves and young fruit.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tree Fruit
March 12, 2013

Peach Leaf Curl Epidemiology: Abiotic Factors

Earlier this month we discussed peach leaf curl biology and control. In this issue we’ll explore how the abiotic environment influences infection by the leaf curl fungal pathogen, Taphrina deformans. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tree Fruit