Plant & Pest Advisory

June 5, 2026 Katrina DeWitt, Nancy Sharma, Janine Spies, Anne Nielsen and Thierry Besancon

Vineyard Pest and Disease Management Considerations Following Freeze Injury

Vineyard Management Following Freeze Injury and Reduced Crop Potential Reminders Management programs this season should focus on preserving healthy foliage, minimizing inoculum buildup, and protecting any remaining harvestable crop. In New Jersey vineyards recovering from freeze injury, timing sprays appropriately and maintaining good canopy coverage will be especially important. Recommendations should always be adjusted based on vineyard […]

Filed Under: Fruit, Wine Grape Tagged With: fungicide, grape, grape berry moth, Grape Diseases, grape Insect, Grape Root Borer, Grapevine, IPM, Japanese beetle, powdery mildew, spider mite, Spotted Lantern Fly, Vineyard, vineyard insect-pest management, weed control, Weed Management, wine grape disease, wine grape insect, wine grape pest management

June 5, 2026 Amanda Quadrel and Maria Cramer

Vegetable IPM Update 6/05/26

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! This week we are sharing our first CEW pheromone map of the season, and we have also included some useful information about other early sweet corn pests.

Filed Under: Organic Production, vegetable, Vegetable Crops Tagged With: cole crops, Insect management, IPM, sweet corn, tomato

June 3, 2026 Janine Spies, Katrina DeWitt, Kaitlin Quinn and Carrie Mansue

Fruit IPM Report for Week of 5/25/2026

Following a rainy and cool Memorial Day weekend, temperatures remained mild in the 60s and 70s for the remainder of the week. Temperatures gradually increased to the lower 80s by the weekend. We are seeing fruitlets beginning to drop, and additional drops are still expected throughout this month. Growers are encouraged to continue evaluating blocks […]

Filed Under: Blueberry, Fruit, Tree Fruit, Uncategorized, Wine Grape Tagged With: apple, Apple Disease, Apple Insect, blueberry, blueberry insect, fungicide resistance management, Insect management, IPM, IPM Observations, IPM Updates, Peach Disease, Peach Insect, peachtree borer, Pear, pear disease, pear insect, pear psylla, pest scouting guide, tree fruit, wine grape, wine grape disease, wine grape insect, wine grape pest management

June 3, 2026 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez

Farm Visitors Are Back: Are you required to let the public bring their animals onto your retail farm?

A spring reminder of what you can and cant do regarding the public wanting to bring animals to your direct market and/or agritourism farm: An increasing number of customers are bringing animals with them when they visit farm markets, pick your own farms, or agritainment activities. Animals can pose a food safety risk to produce, […]

Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Food Safety, Fruit, Vegetable Crops

June 3, 2026 Ramandeep Kumar Sharma

Late-Planted Corn in Southern New Jersey: What to Expect and How to Manage in 2026

USDA reports indicate that 93% of the U.S. corn crop was planted by May 31, 2026, slightly ahead of the five-year average, with strong emergence (76%) and 67% of the crop rated good to excellent. However, national progress does not always reflect local conditions. In southern New Jersey (NJ), cooler soil temperatures and variable field […]

Filed Under: Commercial Ag Updates, Field, Forage & Livestock, Organic Production

May 29, 2026 Amanda Quadrel and Maria Cramer