Work continues to progress toward reinstating the Kerb label for leaf lettuce, but has not been completed and is not expected to be completed in time for use in this year. [Read more…]
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April 4, 2014 Andy Wyenandt and Rick VanVranken
Veg ICM Twilight Meeting Apr 22, 2014
Vegetable Integrated Crop Management Twilight Meeting
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: East Vineland Fire Hall, Landis Ave. across from the Savoy Restaurant
(park behind the building and enter conference room door in rear)
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agricultural Agents of Atlantic, Cumberland and Gloucester Counties invite you to the first twilight meeting of the 2014 season to discuss early spring crop pest control, label updates and management topics. Feel free to bring plant, insect, disease, or weed samples to the meeting to have them identified, or perhaps you can stump the experts. Please bring samples in sealed plastic bags. [Read more…]
April 4, 2014 Brad Majek
Weed Control in Onions
Weed control in onions can be difficult. Effective preemergence herbicides do not provide acceptable annual broadleaf control. Postemergence herbicides cannot be applied until the crop has 2 or 3 true leaves plus the flag leaf. [Read more…]
April 2, 2014 Brad Majek
Asparagus Weed Control
Weeds make asparagus harvest more difficult.
Maintaining an asparagus field weed free during the two month harvest season requires a planned herbicide application prior to spear emergence.
Choose a postemergence herbicide or tillage to control emerged weeds, and residual herbicides to control annual grasses, and annual broadleaf weeds during harvest. [Read more…]
March 23, 2014 Brad Majek
Strawberry (matted row) Weed Control for Early Spring
Weed Control in matted row strawberries relies heavily on controlling weeds with preemergence herbicides and postemergence herbicides. Weeds are effectively controlled before they germinate or as small seedling growing vegetatively (before flowering). Late winter or early spring after the soil has thawed and winter annual broadleaf weeds have broken dormancy, but before strawberries begin to grow, is a key time for herbicide application. [Read more…]
March 21, 2014 Andy Wyenandt
Organic Production: Suppressing Soil-borne Pathogens
Pathogens such as Fusarium, Pythium, Phytophthora, Thielaviopsis and Rhizoctonia that cause pre- and post-emergent damping-off can cause serious problems in organic (and conventional) transplant production.
The key to controlling and/or suppressing damping-off pathogens with biological controls is keeping the biological populations high and continually present on root surfaces of the host, and by following good cultural practices. [Read more…]
