Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Spring and early summer bring leaf spot diseases to cool-season grasses in home lawns, parks and grounds, on sports fields, and occasionally on golf courses. These diseases are caused by several fungi in the genera Curvularia, Bipolaris and Drechslera. Every cool-season turfgrass species has at least one leaf spot disease associated with it, but the most common and […]
Continue reading...Sweet Corn IPM Program personnel are finished deploying black light traps and nearing completion of the corn earworm (CEW) pheromone trap network in New Jersey. Limited collections from traps thus far have captured one corn earworm (CEW) from Chester in Morris County. We anticipate only limited CEW and European corn borer (ECB) moths for […]
Continue reading...Peach: Pest Management for blocks with no crop: NJ experienced two periods of cold temperatures in April that adversely affected cropping in tree fruits. We are still evaluating the extent of the losses but as of this writing most growers in the state appear to have a peach crop. Peach blocks that have been found […]
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Emergency prepardness poster’s are available from the New Jersey Department of Agriculture on the website page “Emergency Preparedness/ Homeland Security, CART” at the link: https://www.nj.gov/agriculture/news/hottopics/topics050107.html The green and white poster’s provide a quick checklist on Being Alert, Being Secure, Being Clean, and Who to Contact if suspicious activity of unexplained illness occurs on your farm. […]
Continue reading...There is a potential for new boxwood blight infections this weekend throughout much of NJ – especially southern regions. The end of week rains coupled with increased temperatures and prolonged periods of leaf wetness will contribute to the spread of boxwood blight infections. It is time to begin protective fungicide applications in high value areas […]
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Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Burlington County will host two ‘CORE Extravaganza’ meetings to provide an in-person opportunity for licensed pesticide applicators to earn CORE recertification credits.
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