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September 30, 2025 Claudia Gil Arroyo
Farming Twilight Meeting – October 23
October Farming Twilight Meeting
October 23, 2025
5:00PM – 7:30 PM
Location:
Rea’s Farm Market
400 Stevens Street
West Cape May NJ 08204
Program
4:30 PM – Registration / Light Refreshments
5:00 PM – Welcome – Claudia Gil Arroyo, Cape May County Agent III; Rutgers NJAES
5:10 PM – Using Data to Drive Sales
Claudia Gil Arroyo, Cape May County Agent III; Rutgers NJAES
5:45 PM – IPM: Identifying Thrips & Tomato Spotted Wilted Virus (TSWV)
Maria Cramer, Senior Program Coordinator Vegetable IPM, Rutgers NJAES
6:20 PM – IPM Program Implementation in Ornamental Crops
Timothy Waller, Cumber County Agent III, Nursery; Rutgers NJAES
6:55 PM – What I’ve learned about blueberry growing over the past 40 years
Gary Pavlis, Atlantic County CEDH & County Agent II; Rutgers NJAES
Light refreshments will be served.
The following pesticide recertification credits will be awarded: 1A (2 units), 3A (1 unit), 10 (3 units), PP2 (3 units)
Please RSVP by October 20, 2025:
Jocelyn Shillingford 609-465-5115 ext. 3607 or capemayag@njaes.rutgers.edu
September 29, 2025 Tim Waller
In-person CEU session – 10/20/25 – Cumberland Co. RCE
‘Core Pesticide Topics in Agriculture’
NJDEP Approved Credits [4 units each – CORE] [3 units each – PP2, 1A, 3A, 10] [1 unit each – 3B, 6B, 8C]
Register by calling (only): 856-451-2800 ext. 1
Date: 10/20/2025 (Monday)
Location: Rutgers Cooperative Extension – Cumberland County
Address: 291 Morton Ave. Millville, NJ 08332
Time: 5:30pm sign-in, 6:00-8:15pm lectures (please arrive prior to 6:00pm)
Cost: $30 fee per participant – only cash or checks will be accepted at the start of the event. Please make checks payable to “Rutgers The State Univ. of NJ”. Receipts will be available.
Seminars: (6-7pm) Back to Basics – Pesticide USE & (7:15-8:15pm) How Chemicals Work and Which to Use – Speaker: Tim Waller, PhD.
Note: October 7th – Ornamental Twilight meeting has been postponed until Spring 2026
September 22, 2025 Claudia Gil Arroyo
Networks to Reduce Risk: Annie’s Project – Info session
The program, “Networks to Reduce Risk: Annie’s Project Builds Viable Farms in Urban and Rural NJ” will include four unique field trips and a dynamic, six-part webinar series. The overarching goal of this program is to improve risk management strategies of urban and rural farm business owners by connecting them with interactive educational opportunities, practical resources, and each other. This program is open to all.
Interested participants can attend an upcoming informational session to learn more about the program objectives and activities, the expected benefits for participants, and receive information about program registration. The informational session will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. To register for the informational session, please visit go.rutgers.edu/ntrrinfosession. Registration is required.
All questions can be directed to anniesproject@njaes.rutgers.edu.
This work is supported by the Northeast Extension Risk Management project award no. 2024-70027-42540, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Thank you so much in advance!
September 19, 2025 Tim Waller
Save the Dates – Sept. 23 (Final IPM webinar), Oct 7 (POSTPONED), Oct 22 (Core Credit, In-person)
Join us for the Final Ornamental IPM webinar Tuesday 9/23/25
Still time to Sign up (click here) for the final remaining 2025 session
Topics to be covered:
- Beneficial insect: Preying mantids
- Mums
- White pine aphid
- Eastern spruce gall adelgid
- Cooley spruce gall adelgid
- Hemlock woolly adelgid
- Spruce spider mite
- Southern red spider mite
- Hemlock rust mite
- Fall practices for sanitation
- Importance of fall irrigation in field settings
- Using horticultural dormant oil
- Questions to consider regarding your nursery IPM monitoring program
Please visit our new –Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program Website (click here)
More details and registration links to follow in the coming days – once CEUs and collaborators are finalized. NOTE: CEUs have been applied for but those listed below are not guaranteed. Both events are in-person in Cumberland County, NJ.
