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Vegetable Twilight Meeting & Research Tour

Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015, 5:30 p.m.

Location: Meet at the trailer near parking lot
Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center
121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ (Upper Deerfield)

Agenda

  • 5:30: Taste the new tomato breeding lines that will be released soon and tour the tomato plots
    Tom Orton, PhD, Specialist in Vegetables
    Check out a mobile market/portable cooler trailer with CoolBot™’s alternative to high cost refrigeration units
    Rick VanVranken, Agricultural Agent Atlantic County
  • 6:00: *Summer/Winter Squash and Cucumber fungicide evaluations for Downy and Powdery Mildew Control
    C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD, Specialist in Vegetable Pathology
  • 6:30: Advances in breeding lines and fungicide evaluation for basil Downy Mildew Control
    Rob Pyne, Graduate Student, Rutgers and C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD
  • 7:00: Fungicides for controlling Phytophthora Blight control in cucurbits
    C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD
  • 7:30: Evaluation of Bell Peppers cultivars and breeding lines for Phytophthora tolerance
    C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD
  • 8:00: *Slicing and pickling cucumber variety evaluation for yield and Downy Mildew tolerance
    Wes Kline, PhD, Agricultural Agent
  • 8:30: Phomopsis Blight control in eggplant
    C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD

*The cucurbit studies are funded in part through the Charles E. and Lena Maier Fund, the Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station

NJ Crop Insurance News Reminder

KSA message from Kelly Steimle, Risk Management Program Assistant, Garden State Crop Insurance Education Initiative, about USDA Farm Safety Net.

Created to inform New Jersey ag producers about crop insurance, the Garden State Crop Insurance Education Initiative Team makes available important information through multiple media outlets. Get the latest news by visiting the website or follow via blog, Facebook, or Twitter.

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Weather Alert from NJ Dept of Ag: Open Burn Approval

At the request of the NJ Dept of Agriculture, DEP Commissioner Martin today approved open burning and the use of smudge pots for tonight and Friday because of the extreme cold temperatures forecasted for those evenings. This approval mirrors the approval from 2012. Copies of the approval and restriction memo plus the list of Critical Temperatures for Frost Protection of Various Crops are attached.

NJ Crop Insurance News Reminder

Apr 30: spring and fall forage seeding contract change date

Created to inform New Jersey ag producers about crop insurance, the Garden State Crop Insurance Education Initiative Team makes available important information through multiple media outlets. Get the latest news by visiting the website or follow via blog, Facebook, or Twitter.

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NJ Crop Insurance News Reminder

Apr 21: grain sorghum earliest planting date

Created to inform New Jersey ag producers about crop insurance, the Garden State Crop Insurance Education Initiative Team makes available important information through multiple media outlets. Get the latest news by visiting the website or follow via blog, Facebook, or Twitter.

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NJ Crop Insurance News Reminder

Apr 20: processing bean earliest planting date

Created to inform New Jersey ag producers about crop insurance, the Garden State Crop Insurance Education Initiative Team makes available important information through multiple media outlets. Get the latest news by visiting the website or follow via blog, Facebook, or Twitter.

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