North Jersey Fruit Growers Twilight Meeting June 7, 2018

North Jersey Fruit Growers Twilight Meeting 2018

Sponsored by

Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Hunterdon and Morris County

Date: June 7, 2018

Location: Valley Crest Farm & Preserve

        14 Allerton Road,

        Lebanon, NJ 08833

Light dinner for those who RSVP by June 1, 2018 to (908) 788-1339

 

5:00 pm               Welcome to Valley Crest Farm & Preserve

Megan Muehlbauer PhD, County Agent III, RCE of Hunterdon County

 

5:05 pm                Dinner and Brief Presentation on the Background and Mission of Valley Crest Farm & Preserve

Ashley Reece, Executive Director of Valley Crest Farm & Preserve

 

5:30 pm                Farm Tour – Tour will be led by Valley Crest Farmers Butch Sorge and Jake Peterson and include discussion of

top-worked apples, peaches, brambles, and Rutgers Scarlet™ strawberry plot.

 

Practical Weed Identification and Choice of Herbicide Control

Thierry Besancon PhD, Specialist in Weed Science, RCE

Springtime Strategies to Prevent Summer Rot Disease

Norm Lalancette PhD, Specialist in Tree Fruit Plant Pathology, RCE

Late Spring/Early Summer Insect Updates

Anne Nielsen, PhD Specialist in Tree Fruit Entomology, RCE

Strawberry Production Updates

Peter Nitzsche, County Agent II, RCE of Morris County

Mid to Late Spring Updates from the Rutgers IPM Program

Dean Polk, State Wide IPM Agent, RCE

Orchard irrigation Estimating Water Requirements

Hemant Gohil PhD, County Agent III, RCE of Gloucester County

Late Season Apple Thinning Strategies

Megan Muehlbauer PhD, County Agent II, RCE of Hunterdon County

 

7:15 pm                WPS Updates

Patricia Hastings, Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator, NJAES

 

7:45 pm                Adjourn

 

NJDEP PESTICIDE RECERTIFICATION CREDITS

CORE – 1Unit    PP2 – 5 Units    1A – 2 Units   10 – 2 Units