May 15 @ 5:30 PM
Summit City Farms and Winery
500 University Blvd, Glassboro, NJ 08028 [Read more…]
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April 17, 2019 Hemant Gohil
South Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight Meeting – II
April 17, 2019 Norman Lalancette
Improving Your Early Season Peach Brown Rot Control Program
Have you ever felt that you did everything right at controlling brown rot during the preharvest period, but still got a significant amount of brown rot at harvest? Your preharvest fungicide applications were at tight intervals during the roughly 21-day fruit ripening period. Rains occurred but you were protected. Even when you looked back at the bloom period you saw no obvious gaps in coverage. Yet, the brown rot appeared at harvest. If this is you, read on. [Read more…]
April 15, 2019 Dave Schmitt
Tree Fruit IPM Report for April 15, 2019
Peach:
Brown Rot: Blossom infections from the brown rot fungus can occur whenever pistils are exposed and a favorable climate exists. Infections can occur during any wetting period when temperatures are between 41 and 86 °F. However, optimum conditions for infection occur with wetting and temperatures in the mid 70’s. [Read more…]
April 10, 2019 Megan Muehlbauer
2019 North Jersey Commercial Fruit Grower Twilight Meeting II
2019 North Jersey Commercial Fruit Grower Twilight Meeting Series
Twilight Meeting II
May 8, 2019
4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Light Dinner provided from 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Hosted by: Rutgers University Snyder Research and Extension Farm
140 Locust Grove Road
Pittstown, NJ 08867
Registration is free, however please RSVP by Tuesday May 7 with Kim Frey at (908)788-1339
The program will be focused around a tour of the tree and small fruit research trials and a farm pesticide safety tour at the Snyder Research Farm. In addition, there will be discussion on pre-bloom pest control, fruit rot and internal worm management, postemergence control of weeds and a brief overview of mid-season fertility management strategies.
Speakers from Rutgers Cooperative Extension will include:
Megan Muehlbauer PhD, Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent, Hunterdon County
Norm Lalancette PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Plant Pathology
Anne Nielsen PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Entomology
Dean Polk, State Wide Fruit IPM Agent
Patricia Hastings, Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator
Thierry Besancon PhD, Specialist in Weed Science
Peter Nitzsche, Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent, Morris County
NJDEP PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS ARE ANTICIPATED
April 5, 2019 Dave Schmitt
Tree Fruit IPM Report for April 5, 2019
Peach:
Brown Rot: Blossom infections from the brown rot fungus can occur whenever pistils are exposed and a favorable climate exists. Infections can occur during any wetting period when temperatures are between 41 and 86 °F. However, optimum conditions for infection occur with wetting and temperatures in the mid 70’s. [Read more…]
March 20, 2019 Megan Muehlbauer
2019 North Jersey Commercial Fruit Grower Twilight Meeting Series Part I
Twilight Meeting I
April 4, 2019
4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Light Dinner provided from 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Hosted by: Stony Hill Farms
193 Parker Road
Long Valley, NJ 07853
Registration is free, however please RSVP by Tuesday April 2 with Kim Fry at (908)788-1339
Program will include a tour of Stony Hill Farms, along with discussion on a number of tree and small fruit production issues including scale and plum curculio management, Spotted Lanternfly, early season disease control, and thinning strategies, as well as an overview of irrigation, and frost protection in the orchard.
Speakers from Rutgers Cooperative Extension will include:
Megan Muehlbauer PhD, Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent, Hunterdon County
Hemant Gohil PhD, Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent, Gloucester County
Clement Akotsen-Mensah PhD, Post Doctoral Researcher
Norm Lalancette PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Plant Pathology
Anne Nielsen PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Entomology
Dean Polk, State Wide Fruit IPM Agent
Peter Nitzsche, Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent, Morris County
Guest Speaker on Spotted Lanternfly Updates TBA
NJDEP PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS ARE ANTICIPATED
Megan Muehlbauer
Agricultural and Natural Resource Agent III, Hunterdon County
Cooperating Agencies: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and County Boards of Chosen Freeholders, Rutgers Cooperative Extension, a unit of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, is an equal opportunity program provider and employer.
