State Pesticide Applicator and Dealer Certification exams are administered by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Pesticide Control Program (PCP).

Find information about exam prerequisites and application on the Rutgers Cooperative Extension Pest Management Office website. The complete exam application must be received by the PCP at least 14 days before exam dates chosen. Any application received after the 14 day time frame will be scheduled based on the 2nd and 3rd exam site choices; if all exam dates are after the 14 day time frame, the exam will be scheduled in the following month.

Certification Exam Schedule for 2013 [Read more…]

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REMINDER! Tomorrow January 15 production and acerage reports are due for Apple, Peach, Blueberry and Cranberry policies if you have any questions please call your crop insurance agent or our toll free number at 1-800-308-2449

Source: NJ Crop Insurance Education

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Check out this great article about crop insurance!

http://www.cropinsuranceinamerica.org/record-86-percent-of-planted-farmland-protected-by-crop-insurance/

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If you experienced any damage to your crop due to weather related causes of loss from the recent hurricane please notify your crop insurance agent within 72 hours of the initial discovery of damage and leave representative samples in the field intact until an adjuster has had a chance to see them. 

Source: NJ Crop Insurance Education

Although we were not hit as hard by the drought as other states, there is some evidence of diseases coming in on some ear tips from those fields that were significantly effected by the drought and are still awaiting harvest . The Plant Management Network, publisher of the Focus on Corn webcast resource, is re-opening two webcasts through December 31, 2012: “Ear and Kernel Mold Biology and Management” by Dr. Charles Woloshuk at Purdue University and “Corn Storage” by Dr. Ken Hellevang at North Dakota State University. [Read more…]

Weekly Crop Update

by Mark VanGessel, Extension Weed Specialist; mjv@udel.edu

Fall herbicide treatments have a nice fit for many situations such as small grain weed control, assisting with cover crop management, and reducing the severity of weed infestations for no till corn or soybeans.

Let’s look at each of these situations. Treating small grain fields with a late fall herbicide application has worked well in our trials. As discussed in earlier newsletters there are no herbicides labeled for applications at planting (a preemergence application). As a result we have lots of winter annuals that emerge with or shortly after the crop. Waiting until spring to control these weeds often results in poor control because the weeds are large, and often stressed from the winter weather. On the other hand, an application in the late fall is made while the weeds are relatively small and actively growing. Remember these weeds are winter annual and will continue to grow after a few hard frosts, and the soil temperatures allow for significant growth through the month of November. If there is a lot of spring emergence, then those weeds can be controlled with a herbicide applied in combination with spring nitrogen applications.
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