Organic Farm Advisory

The Plant & Pest Advisory serves NJ growers by reporting on important pests and recommending responses that are grounded in reproducible trials.

Articles in this section contain information helpful to the NJ commercial organic grower.

Sharing organic practice trial results between land-grant universities is a cost effective way to create a common knowledge base built on the strengths of individual programs. In the sidebar, find institutions with programs in organic agriculture which augment knowledge developed at the Rutgers New Jersey Ag Experiment Station.

Rutgers Cooperative Extension Field Guides: These concise guides help with decision making from pre-planting to harvest. For each crop listed, learn what pests to proactively look for as the season progresses, how to look for them, and when to take action.

Field Guide List

Vegetable IPM Update 7/10/26

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! Read more for the latest pest and disease updates.

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Vegetable IPM Update 7/3/26

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! We hope everyone is staying cool in these extreme temperatures as we move into July. Read more for the latest pest and disease updates.

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Pepper weevil alert 07/01/2026

This week we saw our first pepper weevil of the season in Hammonton NJ. It’s a good idea to be on the lookout for pepper weevil — read more to learn what to look for.  [Read more…]

Vegetable IPM Update 6/26/26

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! June is wrapping up, so here are our findings for the end of the month.

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Vegetable IPM Update 6/19/26

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! Now that pumpkins are coming up, we have begun scouting fields. Read more for information on protecting seedling-stage pumpkins and recent findings on resistance-breaking tomato spotted wilt virus.

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Resistance-breaking tomato spotted wilt virus alert 6/19/2026

This week we have detected two cases of resistance-breaking tomato spotted wilt virus (RB-TSWV) in South Jersey. Read further for more information.

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