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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…]
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…]
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.
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…]
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Hunterdon and Morris County
Date: June 7, 2018
Location: Valley Crest Farm & Preserve
14 Allerton Road,
Lebanon, NJ 08833
Light dinner for those who RSVP by June 1, 2018 to (908) 788-1339
5:00 pm Welcome to Valley Crest Farm & Preserve
Megan Muehlbauer PhD, County Agent III, RCE of Hunterdon County
5:05 pm Dinner and Brief Presentation on the Background and Mission of Valley Crest Farm & Preserve
Ashley Reece, Executive Director of Valley Crest Farm & Preserve
5:30 pm Farm Tour – Tour will be led by Valley Crest Farmers Butch Sorge and Jake Peterson and include discussion of
top-worked apples, peaches, brambles, and Rutgers Scarlet™ strawberry plot.
Practical Weed Identification and Choice of Herbicide Control
Thierry Besancon PhD, Specialist in Weed Science, RCE
Springtime Strategies to Prevent Summer Rot Disease
Norm Lalancette PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Plant Pathology, RCE
Late Spring/Early Summer Insect Updates
Anne Nielsen, PhD Specialist in Tree Fruit Entomology, RCE
Strawberry Production Updates
Peter Nitzsche, County Agent II, RCE of Morris County
Mid to Late Spring Updates from the Rutgers IPM Program
Dean Polk, State Wide IPM Agent, RCE
Orchard irrigation Estimating Water Requirements
Hemant Gohil PhD, County Agent III, RCE of Gloucester County
Late Season Apple Thinning Strategies
Megan Muehlbauer PhD, County Agent II, RCE of Hunterdon County
7:15 pm WPS Updates
Patricia Hastings, Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator, NJAES
7:45 pm Adjourn
NJDEP PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS
CORE – 1Unit PP2 – 5 Units 1A – 2 Units 10 – 2 Units
The 2018 peach bloom period in New Jersey, about 10 days late this season, is now coming to a close. Shucks are splitting and detaching, exposing the newly formed fruit to the outside world for the first time. And the bacterial spot pathogen, Xanthomonas arboricola pv pruni, has been patiently waiting in the overwintering spring cankers and black tip cankers for its chance to “be fruitful and multiply”. Warm, wet, and windy conditions will allow these bacteria to increase in numbers and be transported to the fruit and leaves to form this season’s first (primary) infections. [Read more…]
