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February 11, 2014 Norman Lalancette

South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Grower Meeting POSTPONED to Feb 14

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning from 7 pm Wednesday 12Feb to 1 pm Thursday 13Feb for Southeastern New Jersey and adjoining states. Snow accumulations of 3-6 inches are expected with significant amounts of sleet and ice. This will make travel very hazardous or impossible.

Given these forecasted weather conditions, the South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Grower Meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday Feb. 13 at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Bridgeton, has been postponed.
The meeting will take place one day later, on Friday Feb. 14th, at the same location and starting time of 8 am.

If anyone pre-registered for the original meeting time cannot make the new time, please contact Karen Holton at (856) 455-3100 ext. 4104 to cancel.

Filed Under: Tree Fruit

February 3, 2014 Administrator

Assessing Grapevine Winter Cold Injury Workshop

Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center, 121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ

Heritage Vineyards 2009 Accurate self-assessment of bud viability and fruitfulness is sound vineyard management when dealing with the effects of the unusually cold temperatures experienced this winter.

Join the Outer Coastal Plain Vineyard Association (OCPVA) and Rutgers NJAES for a free mini-workshop to train winegrape growers on the details of accurate cold injury damage assessment. Bring your own hand lens or other magnifier and, if you wish, some pieces of grape cane to evaluate.

Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Wine Grape

January 31, 2014 Norman Lalancette

South Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Grower Meeting

Date:   Thursday, February 13, 2014
Time:   8:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location:  Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center
121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tree Fruit

January 15, 2014 Norman Lalancette

2014 Tree Fruit Meetings for Commercial Growers

A full slate of tree fruit meetings sponsored by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and Rutgers Cooperative Extension have been scheduled for the upcoming 2014 growing season.
The season begins with:

South Jersey Tree Fruit Meeting – ~~February 13~~ @ RAREC Note: New Date Feb 14
North Jersey Fruit Meeting – March 7 @ Warren Grange

These annual “winter” meetings are followed by a series of evening fruit meetings in both northern and southern NJ throughout April, May, and early June. Some of these latter evening meetings will be at grower sites. The meeting season culminates with the RAREC Fruit Research Field Day on June 26, which will include visits to research vineyards as well as orchards.
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Tree Fruit

January 14, 2014 Dave Schmitt

How Cold Did it Get?

South West Injury on Peach

In early January much of the nation was caught in the grip of a “polar vortex”. An arctic air mass reached well down into the southern parts of the country bringing the coldest temperatures and wind chills we’ve seen in nearly 20 years. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Tree Fruit, Wine Grape

October 31, 2013 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez