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June 24, 2013 Administrator
On Ag Updates: Heat Stress Prevention
June 19, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez
Farm Food Safety: FDA Q&A Printable Summary
The Food Safety Modernization Act will impact most growers in New Jersey.
Over the past weeks, we have posted the Questions and Answers for each of the conference calls focusing on subparts of the proposed Produce Safety Rule of the Food Safety Modernization Act on the PPA Food Safety section. For your convenience, the Q&A’s have been collected into a single PDF.
June 19, 2013 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Thoughts on Managing “The Big Three” Blueberry Insect Pests
As we go forward growers will want to have effective programs for the management of all of The Big Three insects at this time: Blueberry Maggot (BBM), Aphids, and Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD).
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June 19, 2013 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Blueberry Pest in Detail: Spotted Wing Drosophila
A new pest of New Jersey Blueberries
We have started to catch Spotted Wing Drosophila adults in low numbers. While these numbers are very low, they do indicate a presence in our production areas.
June 18, 2013 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, and Atanas Atanassov
Fruit IPM Report: Week Ending 6/22/13
Fruit IPM Report 6-22-13 – Click to View | Download | Print
In this report:
- Peach: Oriental Fruit Moth; Tufted Apple Budmoth; Brown Rot
- Apple: Obliquebanded Leafroller; European Red Mites; Codling Moth
- Aphids: Spirea and Apple (green) Aphids
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Summer Diseases: Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck; White Rot and Black Rot; Anthracnose
- Pear: Pear Rust Mite
- Grapes: Grape Berry Moth
- Scouting Calendar
- Blueberry: Spotted Wing Drosophila; Oriental Beetle; Leafrollers and other Leps; Aphids; Putnam Scale; Cranberry Fruitworm; Blueberry Maggot
- Trap Counts
June 17, 2013 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Cranberry: Insect Update 6/17/2013
Bloom has started. If insects have been effectively managed prior to bloom, we recommend no sprays at this time. A reminder: when bees are present your only choices of insecticides are the Insect Growth Regulators –IGR- (e.g. Confirm and Intrepid) or Bt products (e.g. DiPel).
From now until August, we recommend monitoring insect populations using pheromone traps. [Read more…]
