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April 11th is the earliest planting date for corn crop insurance policies
April 21st is the earliest planting date for grain sorghum crop insurance polices
April 30th is the contract change date for forage seeding policies
If you have any questions please contact your crop insurance agent or our office at 1-800-308-2449
Source: NJ Crop Insurance Education
Any product recommendations published in the Plant and Pest Advisory are made for licensed pesticide applicators, and specifically are NOT directed at homeowners. This information should not be distributed to other Master Gardeners; nor be distributed/recommended to homeowners. There is a statement on the bottom of the Plant and Pest Advisory homepage that directly cautions: “Recommendations on this site are for commercial operators and are NOT for home gardeners”.
If a homeowner wishes to apply restricted use pesticides on their own property, they must become certified and licensed as a “private pesticide applicator” by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Pesticide Control Program. If you have questions on this, please contact me.
Patricia D. Hastings
Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator
Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension
93 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
By Garden State Crop Insurance Education Initiative
Raleigh, North Carolina, March 25, 2013— USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) announces New Jersey nursery producers should be aware that the final date for a new applicant to apply for 2014 nursery crop insurance is May 1, 2013. New applications for crop year 2014 may be accepted until May 1, 2013, with coverage beginning 30 days after receipt of your signed application, a Plant Inventory Value Report (PIVR) for each insured practice, as applicable, and two copies of your most recent wholesale catalogs or price lists. Premium will be prorated when PIVRs and/or catalogs or price lists are submitted with applications after the sales closing date. For existing policies, coverage will automatically attach on June 1, 2013. [Read more…]
From Weekly Crop Update
Mark VanGessel, Extension Weed Specialist; mjv@udel.edu
Updated weed management guides are available online at http://extension.udel.edu/ag/weed-science/
The Guides for “Corn Weed Management”, “Soybean Weed Management”, and” Pasture and Hay Weed Management Guide” as well as other bulletins are available.
From Weekly Crop Update
Mark VanGessel, Extension Weed Specialist; mjv@udel.edu
Some fields were sprayed last spring with Osprey for control of annual ryegrass and there was no control. At least one of these fields was confirmed as having ALS-resistant annual ryegrass. If Osprey or PowerFlex (another ALS-herbicide or Group 2 herbicide), were used for annual ryegrass but did not control them, Axial XL is the only option for ryegrass control this spring.
More fields with ALS-resistant common chickweed (resistant to Finesse, Harmony Extra, Osprey, and PowerFlex) are showing up in Delaware. Spring application of Starane Ultra is the best option to suppress/control the resistant chickweed. [Read more…]
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Source: NJ Crop Insurance Education
