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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 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
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
We’re pleased to welcome world-renowned Clark Smith for a 2-day workshop at the Rutgers EcoComplex, May 20 and May 21, 2019.
See event flyer below:
Please register for the upcoming Wine Chemistry Workshop by sending the registration fee of $275.00 per person. Make checks out to Rutgers University and send to: Attn: Joan Medany, RCE of Gloucester County, 254 County House Rd., Clarksboro, NJ 08020.
Upon registration, you will receive a copy of Clark Smith’s book. (He would like attendees to read the book prior to attending, so we recommend registering early for ample time to read.)
Contact Hemant Gohil at gohil@njaes.rutgers.edu with questions.
You’re invited to attend an upcoming educational session being held at the Burlington County Extension Center on Wednesday, April 3, 2019.
Registration begins at 8:15 AM. See flyer for details:
If interested, please RSVP to Anna Molinski annamol@njaes.rutgers.edu by March 29, 2019. Space is limited.
Covering Public Safety, Engineering and Agriculture
in collaboration with RCE Specialists & Agents
Friday, May 31 – 9am-1pm
Mays Landing campus Student Center
Register at atlanticcapedroneday.eventbrite.com
