Special Spotted Wing Drosophila Alert: SWD on All Small Fruit and Cherries: ANY GROWER with caneberries, strawberries, blueberries, other smooth thin skinned small fruit, and cherries, should be on an SWD program. Adults are laying eggs and internal larvae have already been seen in non-treated plantings and reported by growers in northern counties.
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June 15, 2018 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for 5/14/18
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): Second generation adults are flying in southern counties, and are just starting to fly in northern counties. [Read more…]
Fruit IPM for June 5, 2018
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): Second generation adults are starting to emerge in southern counties, and are about to start in northern counties. The second brood often causes the most damage on peaches, since larvae can enter both growing tips and young fruit. [Read more…]
Fruit IPM for 5/31/18
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): Applications made for the first generation are now over in all counties, unless trap counts exceed 6 moths per trap. The second generation flight should start in about a week to 10 days with controls targeted starting about mid-June in southern counties. [Read more…]
May 31, 2018 Michelle Infante-Casella
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County Has New Office Location
County Agricultural Agents, Michelle Infante-Casella and Hemant Gohil have a new office location in Gloucester County. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Office in Gloucester County relocated last week. The new location is now at the Shady Lane County Complex, 254 County House Road, Clarksboro, NJ 08020. The entrance is on the right side of the main 3-story brick building, under the numbers 254; follow the sidewalk with gray brick pavers.
Entrance to the RCE of Gloucester County Offices down the sidewalk on the right.
The office also has a new phone number and Agricultural Agents and other staff can be reached at 856-224-8040 (Agriculture and Natural Resources is extension 1). This new complex provided by Gloucester County offers more office space and multiple options for educational programs. To the left side of the complex is a 4-classroom building, formerly the Gloucester County Fire Academy, that is now operated by Rowan College of Gloucester County, that can be utilized for extension education and other county-related events. The main office building has 3 conference rooms for small group meetings. RCE will still have access to the main auditorium at the former facility in Clayton. For more information about Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County see http://gloucester.njaes.rutgers.edu.
Fruit IPM for 5/24/18
Peach:
Oriental Fruit Moth: First generation timings are updated below: According to the model, treatments should be over for the first generation flight statewide. However trap counts at several sites still show captures above the treatment threshold of 6/trap. Pest pressure is quite high on some farms in northern counties. [Read more…]
