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February 27, 2024 Dave Schmitt
Early Season Tree Fruit Pest Control for 2024
February 23, 2024 Megan Muehlbauer
North Jersey Commercial Fruit Growers Meeting Program and Registration
NORTH JERSEY COMMERCIAL
FRUIT GROWERS MEETING
March 13, 2024
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 – Managing Ambrosia Beetle in Tree Fruit Orchards
Kaitlin Quinn, North Jersey Fruit IPM Program Associate, Cooperative Extension
9:40 – Updates on Control of Bitter Rot in Apple, and Bacterial Spot on Peach
Srdjan Acimovic, PhD, Tree Fruit and Specialty Crop Pathologist, Virginia Tech
10:40 – Update on Farm Service Programs
Laura LaFevre, County Executive Director, Hunterdon / Somerset Office, Farm Service Agency
11:00 – Updates on the Use of Herbicides as they relate to EPA Compliance with the Endangered Species Act
Thierry Besançon, Specialist in Weed Science, Cooperative Extension
11:30 – Jersey Fresh and Apple Promotion Council Marketing Updates
Joe Atchison, Assistant Secretary, NJ Department of Agriculture
11:50 – What is New from Industry
12:10 – LUNCHEON (pre-registration required)
1:10 – Advanced Respiratory Protection for WPS-Labeled Pesticides
Patricia Hastings, Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator, Cooperative Extension
2:10 – Leveraging User-Generated Content for Farm Marketing
Claudia Gil Arroyo, ANR Agent, Cooperative Extension of Cape May County
2:40 – San Jose Scale Management Updates and Future Directions
Anne Nielsen PhD, Specialist in Fruit Entomology, Cooperative Extension
3:10 – Pesticide Recertification Credits and Adjourn
NJDEP PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS TO BE AWARDED
6 Units Cat-10 6 Units Cat-1A 6 Units PP2 2 Units CORE
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 20, 2024 Hemant Gohil
2024 South Jersey Commercial Fruit Growers Meeting
Date: March 12, 2024 (Tue)
Location: Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center, 121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ 08302
Pre-Registration: Required, by March 11th. Contact Joan Medany at (856) 224 – 8030 or jmedany@co.gloucester.nj.us
$20.00 (Checks only, made out to Rutgers University). Lunch, Coffee and Pastries Included
Pesticide Credits: Requested for – CORE, PP2, 10, 1A [Read more…]
February 13, 2024 Megan Muehlbauer
SAVE THE DATES! North Jersey
North Jersey Commercial Vegetable Grower Meeting
February 27, 2024
&
North Jersey Commercial Fruit Grower Meeting
March 13, 2024
Hunterdon County Complex
314 State Route 12, Bldg. #1
Flemington, New Jersey 08822
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Program and registration details forthcoming
February 12, 2024 Hemant Gohil
2024 Grape Expectation – New Jersey Viticulture and Enology Symposium
The 2024 Grape Expectation symposium is a daylong series of lectures by professionals in viticulture (grape growing), enology (winemaking), and marketing. Lectures are designed to present new and relevant information to professionals and amateurs involved with grape growing or the wine industry. Pesticide recertification credits will be provided. Multiple tastings will be conducted during the symposium. Award-winning wines will be available for sampling in the N.J. Wine Showcase immediately following the symposium. This is the thirty-ninth year of the symposium. Come, learn, and spend time with your fellow N.J. wine professionals. Fore registration, please follow the instruction under the program detail.
January 17, 2024 Thierry Besancon
Have A Say in Field Equipment Sanitation Research!
In an initiative to guide future solution and resources, the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) has designed the Sanitation of Agricultural Field Equipment Questionnaire to begin the research process centered around field equipment sanitation.
The research will develop a more comprehensive understanding of the challenges associated with field equipment sanitation and work toward developing solutions that are effective, implementable and sustainable.
To introduce the survey and forthcoming research effort, Dr. Matt Grieshop Director at The Grimm Family Center for Organic Production and Research College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo says,
“We are a group of agricultural research and extension professionals from across the United States that are curious about grower and agricultural professional perceptions about the importance of field equipment sanitation to mitigate the spread of organisms that pose human health, weed, plant pathogen or other risks.
Agricultural field equipment includes tillage implements, tractors, harvesters, cultivation equipment, trucks, trailers, sprayers, mowers, or any other piece of equipment that is shared across fields.
This information will be solely used to help frame future research questions and outreach activities. It will not be published or distributed in any form. Answering should take 5 minutes or less and is completely voluntary and anonymous.
If you have questions, comments or concerns contact Dr. Matt Grieshop at mgriesho@calpoly.edu
Thank you for sharing your experience. We truly appreciate the gift of your time and knowledge.”
Your participation is invaluable to future developments in the industry regarding food safety and equipment sanitation.
To contribute, visit here.
For any questions regarding this project, contact Thierry Besancon at thierry.besancon@rutgers.edu.
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Thierry E. Besançon, PhD
Associate Professor / Extension Weed Science Specialist
