October 19, 2025

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

 

 

 

 

 

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September 30, 2025

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

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Fruit, Landscape, Nursery, & Turf, pesticide credits, Vegetable Crops Tagged With: , ,
September 29, 2025

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

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September 19, 2025

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:

  1. Beneficial insect: Preying mantids​
  2. Mums   ​
  3. White pine aphid​
  4. Eastern spruce gall adelgid​
  5. Cooley spruce gall adelgid​
  6. Hemlock woolly adelgid​
  7. Spruce spider mite​
  8. Southern red spider mite​
  9. Hemlock rust mite​
  10. Fall practices for sanitation
  11. Importance of fall irrigation in field ​settings​
  12. Using horticultural dormant oil​
  13. 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.   

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September 8, 2025

Fall Vegetable Twilight Meeting on 9/18, Registration Closes 9/12

A fall vegetable twilight meeting will be held at Norz Hill Farm & Market, LLC., 120 S Branch Rd, Hillsborough Township, NJ 08844 (Somerset County) on Thursday, September 18. Registration is required and closes Friday, September 12.  To register, complete this registration form or call the RCE Somerset County office at 908-526-6293 ext. 4. 

AGENDA  

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Welcome, load wagons, wagon ride to field  

 4:15 pm – 4:45 pm  Drone Seeding Winter Cover Crops into Pumpkin  

Peter Nitzsche, Agricultural Agent , Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Morris County  

 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm  Small Farm Robotic Equipment for Weed Control in Vegetable Production  

Thierry Besançon, Extension Specialist – Weed Science for Specialty Crops , Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station  

5:15 pm – 5:45 pm  Vegetable IPM Program Update  

Amanda Quadrel, Sr. Program Coordinator – Vegetable IPM, Rutgers Cooperative Extension  

5:45 pm – 6:15 pm  Update On Important Diseases in Vegetable Production  

Andy Wyenandt, Extension Specialist – Vegetable Pathology , Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station  

6:15 pm – 6:20 pm  Wagon ride to tent  

6:20 pm – 6:30 pm Meal of pizza and salad, provided by Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey  

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm  Worker Protection Standard: Checklist for Compliance  

Kate Brown, Agricultural Agent , Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County  

 

MEETING CO- SPONSORED BY THE VEGETABLE GROWERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY

Pesticide Recertification Credits approved: CORE (1), 1A (3), 10 (2), and PP2 (3) 

Questions? Email Kate Brown, Agricultural Agent with RCE Somerset County, at kbrown@njaes.rutgers.edu.

Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Organic Production, pesticide credits, vegetable, Vegetable Crops Tagged With: , , ,
August 21, 2025

Fall Vegetable Twilight Meeting

Fall Vegetable Twilight Meeting  (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)

Norz Hill Farm & Market, LLC., 120 S Branch Rd, Hillsborough Township, NJ 08844 

Thursday, September 18, 2025 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm 

AGENDA  

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Welcome, load wagons, wagon ride to field  

 4:15 pm – 4:45 pm  Drone Seeding Winter Cover Crops into Pumpkin  

Peter Nitzsche, Agricultural Agent , Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Morris County  

 4:45 pm – 5:15 pm  Small Farm Robotic Equipment for Weed Control in Vegetable Production  

Thierry Besançon, Extension Specialist – Weed Science for Specialty Crops , Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station  

5:15 pm – 5:45 pm  Vegetable IPM Program Update  

Amanda Quadrel, Sr. Program Coordinator – Vegetable IPM, Rutgers Cooperative Extension  

5:45 pm – 6:15 pm  Update On Important Diseases in Vegetable Production  

Andy Wyenandt, Extension Specialist – Vegetable Pathology , Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station  

6:15 pm – 6:20 pm  Wagon ride to tent  

6:20 pm – 6:30 pm Meal provided by Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey  

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm  Worker Protection Standard: Checklist for Compliance  

Kate Brown, Agricultural Agent , Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County  

 

MEETING CO- SPONSORED BY THE VEGETABLE GROWERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY

CORE, 1A, AND PP2 Pesticide Recertification Credits have been requested from NJDEP for this meeting – TBD.

TO REGISTER: Complete this registration form or call the RCE Somerset County office at 908-526-6293 ext. 4. 

Questions? Email Kate Brown, Agricultural Agent with RCE Somerset County, at kbrown@njaes.rutgers.edu.

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