Commercial Ag Updates + Farm Food Safety

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Does My Business Need A Spotted Lanternfly Permit?

With the closing of the Purdue grain facility in Bordontown, field crops growers are sending trucks to southeastern PA to deliver grain, and produce shippers and others may be working/delivering to warehouses there too. Burlington County Agricultural Agent Bill Bamka shares the following information about shipping into or out of Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) quarantine zones (including some northwestern NJ counties):

Spotted Lanternfly adult

Spotted Lanternfly adult with wings spread. Adults are about 1″ long

Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive insect recognized as a threat to agriculture in New Jersey and the United States. Multiple states in the Mid-Atlantic area have SLF populations and/or quarantines in place. Currently New Jersey has quarantines in Warren, Hunterdon, and Mercer counties. Pennsylvania has a quarantine area of 14 counties across the southeastern portion of the state. [Read more…]

Bucks Montgomery Cooperative Wool Pool

Bucks Montgomery PA Annual Wool Pool Second Saturday in June

The Bucks/Montgomery Cooperative Wool Pool will hold it’s annual wool pool 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, June 8th, at Delaware Valley University’s Roth Farm, 1260 Welsh Road, North Wales, Pa.

Date: Saturday, June 8, 2019
Time: 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Place: Roth Farm of Delaware Valley College
(Near the intersection of Routes 63 and 202, Upper Gwynedd, 8 miles west of DVU main campus – see map at link).

2019 BM Wool Pool Notice

For up-to-date information please contact the Garden State Sheep Breeders.

Hackettstown Livestock Auction Results for May 14, 2019

This auction sells: lambs, sheep, goats, calves, beef cattle, pigs, rabbits, and all types of heavy fowl. Auctions are held every Tuesday with the first sale beginning at 10:30 am and ending at the last sale 5:30 pm. Hay, straw, grain, and firewood are also for sale.

Farm Fresh Eggs available for purchase by the case (30 doz.) or by the flat (2&1/2 doz.) in the main office Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Also available some Monday’s and Friday’s but please call office first (908)-852-0444.

Click on link for May, 14 sale results:
Hackettstown Livestock Auction May 14, 2019

Are you required to let the public bring their animals onto your retail farm?

An increasing number of customers are bringing animals with them when they visit farm markets, pick your own farms, or agritainment activities. Animals can pose a food safety risk to produce, introduce disease to farm animals, frighten or upset farm animals. Outside animals can also pose a risk to employees and other market customers and farm visitors. Farmers need to consider these occurrences when keeping in compliance with regulations and buyer requirements specific to food safety and biosecurity to protect their farm animals. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) governs what you are legally allowed to do in regards to customers with service animals visiting your market or on your farm. This fact sheet will cover the specifics of the ADA, animals that are not protected by the ADA regulations, and how to reduce potential risk on your farm from outside animals. States often have regulations that go beyond the federal ADA regulation, information represented in this fact sheet is specific to New Jersey. If you farm in another state please consult the state by state guide linked at the end of this article.Dog resting in the shade

What do the ADA regulations cover?
While many types of animals can provide comfort and emotional support to their owners, only service animals are protected by the ADA, specifically Title II and III. The ADA regulations define “service animal” as dogs, and less commonly miniature ponies, that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities such as guiding a blind person, alerting people who are deaf, assisting a person in a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post [Read more…]

2019 Wine Grape Twilight Meetings

The 2019 Wine Grape Twilight Meetings are being held in South Jersey on Wednesday, May 22 and North Jersey on Thursday, May 23.

See flyer for details.

2019 Wine Grape Twilight Meetings

South Jersey: Wednesday, May 22; 5:00-7:30 PM
William Heritage Winery
480 Mullica Hill Rd
Mullica Hill, NJ
North Jersey: Thursday, May 23; 5:00-7:30 PM
Fox Hollow Vineyards
939 Holmdel Rd
Holmdel, NJ
RSVP to Joan Medany at JMEDANY@CO.GLOUCESTER.NJ.US or 856-224-8040 EXT 1.

2019 North Jersey Commercial Fruit Grower Twilight Meeting II

2019 North Jersey Commercial Fruit Grower Twilight Meeting Series

Twilight Meeting II

May 8, 2019

4:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Light Dinner provided from 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Hosted by: Rutgers University Snyder Research and Extension Farm

140 Locust Grove Road

Pittstown, NJ 08867

Registration is free, however please RSVP by Tuesday May 7 with Kim Frey at (908)788-1339

The program will be focused around a tour of the tree and small fruit research trials and a farm pesticide safety tour at the Snyder Research Farm.  In addition, there will be discussion on pre-bloom pest control, fruit rot and internal worm management, postemergence control of weeds and a brief overview of mid-season fertility management strategies.

Speakers from Rutgers Cooperative Extension will include:

Megan Muehlbauer PhD, Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent, Hunterdon County

Norm Lalancette PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Plant Pathology

Anne Nielsen PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Entomology

Dean Polk, State Wide Fruit IPM Agent

Patricia Hastings, Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator

Thierry Besancon PhD, Specialist in Weed Science

Peter Nitzsche, Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent, Morris County

 

NJDEP PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS ARE ANTICIPATED