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Seasonal pest alerts and news about insects, diseases, and weeds impacting Christmas Tree production including Commercial Ag Updates (meetings and marketing); and Pesticide Program updates from the Rutgers Pest Management Office News Blog.
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WVU Extension and other colleagues are trying to understand how we can better help you with your Agritourism Marketing. It will tremendously help us to help you in the future.
Please take a few minutes (at most 5 minutes) to answer the questions here: https://s.uconn.edu/agritourism-marketing
PREVIOUS SESSION: (contains information on boxwood pests, armored scales, needlecast diseases, oomycetes )
Note we have clearwing borer lures and wing or delta traps, scale crawler tape, and yellow sticky cards available to commercial grower program members at our Cumberland (twaller@njaes.rutgers.edu) and Monmouth (william.errickson@njaes.rutgers.edu) RCE offices.
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Previous webinars:
(click the ‘Read More’ below for complete dates in S-C-Northern NJ per pest)
Note we have Clearwing borer lures and wing or delta traps, scale crawler tape, and yellow sticky cards available to commercial grower program members at our Cumberland (twaller@njaes.rutgers.edu) and Monmouth (william.errickson@njaes.rutgers.edu) RCE offices.
Take a Quick Survey Regarding your Needs for Novel Weed Management in Perennial Crops!
Dr. Thierry E. Besançon, Associate Extension Weed Science Specialist, Rutgers University
Our interdisciplinary team of weed scientists and sociologists is conducting research under a Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) grant to understand perennial crop growers’ priorities regarding novel weed control technologies. This survey aims to identify drivers and barriers to implementing robotic weeding systems in your operations.
We seek to understand your:
This anonymous, voluntary survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. All information collected will be used solely to inform future research questions and outreach activities, and will not be published or distributed. This Friday, May 9th, will be the final day of the survey!
Your participation is invaluable to future developments in the industry regarding new technologies for weed management. We need more inputs from New Jersey perennial crops growers so that they have a say on the direction that weed science research will take in the future!
To contribute, scan the QR code or visit: https://iastate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eqzMrFKtlcDjjgO
If you have questions, comments or concerns contact Dr. Thierry Besançon at thierry.besancon@rutgers.edu.
Click here for a PDF of April 22, 2025 webinar that can be printed and used as a field guide or similar
Click here for a VIDEO recording of April 22, 2025 webinar
5/13/25 sessions topics:
Conifer Issues:
Ornamental nursery:
IPM monitoring:
2025 Registration includes:
The focus of this program is to provide timely updates on pest, disease, and weeds impacting commercial ornamental producers. The webinars will focus on the most important pests for a 2 week interval, will be recorded, and will be shared shortly thereafter with Spanish overdub (spoken word). The trap packages are in an effort to find grower led solutions for monitoring economically important pests throughout the multiple regions of New Jersey. Please consider joining this program for its inaugural year.
This program is free, however registration is required.
(Next webinar Tu 4/22 at 12PM)
