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July 18, 2014

Vegetable Twilight Meeting & Field Tour

Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014 5:30pm
Location: RAREC, 121 Northville Rd, Bridgeton, NJ

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Join Rutgers for a twilight meeting in the field to learn about recent innovations for successful control of key vegetable diseases and weeds. Pesticide credits have been requested.

This is your opportunity to bring plant, insect, disease or weed problem samples for identification. Rutgers Cooperative Extension Ag Specialists and County Agents will be on hand for the field tour of research and demonstration plots on managing diseases of pepper, basil downy mildew, and cucurbit downy mildew. View weed control innovations and get updates on tomato variety development and ethnic African vegetables.

Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Vegetable Crops
July 18, 2014

More Late Blight Reported in PA

More late blight was reported in Pennsylvania this past week in Clinton, Lackawanna, and Berks Counties. The wet weather this past week as been ideal for its development across most of the mid-Atlantic region.

To date, no late blight has been reported in New Jersey on potatoes or tomato. However, all tomato and potato growers in New Jersey should be scouting and applying preventative fungicides on a regular basis.

For more information on late blight in PA see Late Blight is Spreading Across Pennsylvania.

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops
July 16, 2014

Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/16/14

Vegetable IPM Report 7-16-14 – Click to View | Download | Print

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Maps for the Week
–European Corn Borer Map
–Corn Earworm Moth Blacklight Trap Map
–Corn Earworm Moth Pheromone Trap Map

Topics for the Week

  • Sweet Corn
  • Peppers
    • Pepper Weevil Report
  • Tomatoes
  • BMSB
  • Pumpkins and Winter Squash

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops
July 15, 2014

Vegetable Disease Briefs 7-15-14

  • Cucurbit downy mildew was confirmed in Wicomico County, Maryland late last week. All growers should continue to scout all cucurbit fields on a regular basis. Once harvesting is finished all fields should be disked under and or sprayed with gramoxone. Please see the 2014 Commercial Vegetable Recommendations Guide for specific fungicide recommendations. To track the progress of cucurbit downy mildew please visit North Carolina State University’s Cucurbit Downy Mildew Forecasting Center at http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/cucurbit/
  • Phytophthora crown rot is being reported in multiple crops. Weather conditions for the past few days have been ideal for its development.
  • There have been no new reports of Late blight in the region. To date, Late blight has been reported in Lancaster County, PA and confirmed in west central PA; on Long Island, NY and western NY.  To track late blight in the US please visit http://usablight.org/.

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Filed Under: Vegetable Crops
July 9, 2014

Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/9/14

Vegetable IPM Report 7-9-14 – Click to View | Download | Print

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Maps for the Week
–European Corn Borer Map
–Corn Earworm Moth Blacklight Trap Map
–Corn Earworm Moth Pheromone Trap Map

Topics for the Week

  • Sweet Corn
  • Peppers
    • Pepper Weevil Report
  • Tomatoes
  • BMSB
  • Pumpkins and Winter Squash

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops
July 3, 2014 and

Farm Food Safety: Irrigation Water Sampling

Testing irrigation water for generic E. coli is something that every farm should do.  Timing and frequency of this testing varies depending on your water source.  Here is a cheat sheet: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Food Safety, Fruit, Vegetable Crops