It’s that time of year again, many scale crawlers and borers will be active over the next few weeks throughout NJ. Be prepared to target specific pest life-stages for the highest level of efficacy per material cost and get those problem insects in check. Application of contact insecticides during specific activity windows for these pests […]
Continue reading...May 13, 2022 Tim Waller
Pest Scouting 200-500 GDD – Get sprayers ready for Borers, Scale Crawlers, and other important pests
May 13, 2022 Melissa Bravo
Ideal conditions for wheat quality. What does this mean?
Since last week, the critical period of fifteen to eighteen days for wheat crop grain quality and quantity has been underway in much of south-central New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This period occurs when heads begin to emerge from the flag leaf (flowering) followed by pollination through to dough stage. While we can’t rule out bacterial […]
Continue reading...May 12, 2022 Richard Buckley
Spring (and Summer) Leaf Spot Diseases in Lawns and Sports Turf.
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...May 11, 2022 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
IPM Update 5/11/22
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...May 10, 2022 Dave Schmitt
Tree Fruit IPM Report for May 10, 2022
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 […]
Continue reading...May 10, 2022 Melissa Bravo
Emergency Prepardness Poster’s for Producers
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. […]
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