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Fruit Crops Edition
Seasonal updates on diseases, insects, weeds impacting tree fruit and small fruit (blueberry, cranberry, and wine grape). Fruit Pest Alerts are also available via this category feed.
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February 28, 2025 Dave Schmitt
Early Season Tree Fruit Pest Control for 2025
February 27, 2025 Kate Brown
Farmer Resource Fair in Somerset County
All New Jersey farmers are invited to attend this Farmer Resource Fair which will feature an array of agricultural service providers. In-between a light breakfast and a hearty lunch, there will be engaging presentations and opportunities to visit with service providers at their table displays. The program schedule, as well as a preliminary list of service providers who’ve confirmed their attendance, is included below.
The event will be held on Friday, April 11, 2025 from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm at the Ted Blum 4-H Center located at 310 Milltown Road, Bridgewater, NJ 08807.
Click here to register for this free event (registration is required). Please register by April 1, 2025.
This collaborative event is being organized by Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County, Somerset County Agriculture Development Board, and the State Agriculture Development Committee Next Gen Program. We hope you will join us! [Read more…]
February 26, 2025 Kate Brown
TONIGHT: Farm Viability Extension Specialist Candidate Seminar
Kelvin Amon, candidate for Extension Specialist in Farm Viability, will deliver his stakeholder seminar “Willingness to pay for pest management information: Evidence from specialty crop growers” on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 from 7:00 to 8:00 pm.
The seminar will take place at the Middlesex County E.A.R.T.H. Center located at 42 Riva Ave, North Brunswick Township, NJ 08902. We welcome you to attend in person, but a Zoom option is available. Email kbrown@njaes.rutgers.edu for Zoom attendance troubleshooting.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 – Kelvin Amon
- https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96953260526?pwd=kIW1UBx3BQxyoORDR5TKPTo9X9zL3j.1
- Meeting ID: 969 5326 0526
- Passcode: 314026
February 24, 2025 Kate Brown
Stop the Bleed Training in Hunterdon County: Registration Open
Rutgers Cooperative Extension, in partnership with the Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, will host a Stop the Bleed training on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. The training will be held from 6:30-8:00 pm at the Amwell Valley Fire Company, located at 22 County Road #579, Ringoes, NJ 08551.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn the life-saving skills of pressure application, wound packing, and use of tourniquets. Attendees of this free training will also receive a complementary bleeding control kit.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Please complete our pre-registration form by Friday, March 14.
Questions? Email Kate Brown, RCE-Somerset County Ag Agent, at kbrown@njaes.rutgers.edu or call 908-526-6293.
February 19, 2025 Megan Muehlbauer
North Jersey Commercial Fruit Grower Meeting Program and Registration
NORTH JERSEY COMMERCIAL
FRUIT GROWERS MEETING
March 5, 2025
8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Hunterdon County Complex
314 State Route 12, Bldg. 1
Flemington, NJ
Program
Program Chair
Megan Muehlbauer, PhD
Agriculture and Resource Management Agent
Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County
8:30 – Registration
Coffee and pastry, compliments of industry sponsors
9:00 – Welcome and Introductions
9:10 – North Jersey Tree Fruit IPM Updates
Kaitlin Quinn, North Jersey Fruit IPM Program Associate, Cooperative Extension
9:40 – Mycorrhizal Fungi Applications and their Effect on Soil Biology and Tree Health
Megan Muehlbauer PhD, ANR Agent, Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon
10:10 – Pest Updates for Tree Fruit in North Jersey
Anne Nielsen PhD, Specialist in Fruit Entomology, Cooperative Extension
10:40 – Weed Management Technologies for the Orchard and Vineyard
Thierry Besançon, Specialist in Weed Science, Cooperative Extension
11:10 – Compliance in Pest Management: Status Update for Chlorpyrifos and the Endangered Species Act
Janine Spies PhD, Statewide Program Leader and Agriculture Agent in Fruit IPM, Cooperative Extension
11:40 – Update on Farm Service Programs
Laura LaFevre, County Executive Director, Hunterdon/Somerset Office, Farm Service Agency
11:50 – Jersey Fresh Marketing Update
Joe Atchison III, Assistant Secretary, NJ Dept. of Agriculture
Christine Fries, Coordinator of Agricultural Marketing, NJ Dept. of Agriculture
12:00 – LUNCHEON (pre-registration required)
12:50 – What is New from Industry
1:10 – Understanding How Irrigation Water can be a Source for Soilborne Diseases in the Orchard
Kari Peter, Associate Research Professor Tree Fruit Pathology, Penn State University
1:40 – Bitter Rot in Apples What we Know and How to Control it
Kari Peter, Associate Research Professor Tree Fruit Pathology, Penn State University
2:10 – Pesticide Protection, Precautions and Procedures
Spencer Kerkhof, Environmental Specialist, Pesticide Compliance & Enforcement NJDEP
2:40 – What can the Rutgers Diagnostic Lab do for You
Rich Buckley, Director of the New Jersey Soil Testing & Diagnostic Services
Sabrina Tirpak, Laboratory Researcher II, Plant Diagnostic Laboratory Rutgers
3:10 – Pesticide Recertification Credits and Adjourn
NJDEP PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS ARE ANTICIPATED
Click here and fill out this form to register for the meeting then fax or email to:
Fax: (908) 806-4735
E-mail: kfrey@co.hunterdon.nj.us
If you have any questions please call Kim Crommelin: (908)-788-1338
February 18, 2025 Meredith Melendez
NJ Ag Convention Educational Session Summaries Available Online
The proceedings from the 2025 New Jersey Agricultural Convention educational sessions are now available online. Visit the Vegetable Crops Online website for this year, and previous years, proceedings.
