Strawberry leaf spot, caused by the soil-borne fungal pathogen, Mycosphaerella fragariae, can infect leaves, petioles, runners, fruit stalks (pedicels), and berry caps or calyxes. Small, dark purple to reddish-purple, round spots, 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter (3 to 6 millimeters), appear on the upper leaf surfaces. The center of the spots soon become tan or […]
Continue reading...June 21, 2022 Wes Kline
USDA Announces Assistance for On-Farm Food Safety Expenses for Specialty Crop Growers
Program Details The Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops Program (FSCSC) will assist specialty crop operations that incurred eligible on-farm food safety certification and related expenses related to obtaining or renewing a food safety certification in calendar years 2022 and 2023. For each year, FSCSC covers a percentage of the specialty crop operation’s cost of […]
Continue reading...June 21, 2022 Andy Wyenandt
Controlling Cercospora leaf spot and in beets in 2023
Cercospora leaf spot (CLS), caused by Cercospora beticola, is an important and emerging disease in beet and swiss chard production in New Jersey. Efforts to control this disease has become more difficult in the past few years in some areas of southern New Jersey.
Continue reading...June 20, 2022 Nick Polanin
Sign Up By June 30 to Receive the 2022 Census of Agriculture
Agricultural producers who did not receive the 2017 Census of Agriculture and do not receive other USDA surveys or censuses have until June 30 to sign up to receive the 2022 Census of Agriculture. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will mail ag census survey codes for responding securely online to every known U.S. producer […]
Continue reading...June 20, 2022 Melissa Bravo
Upcoming Parasite Management Webinar for Sheep and Goat Producers
“The FDA will require a valid veterinary-client-patient relationship (VCPR) by June 2023 to obtain a prescription, purchase injectable antibiotics and retain future access to antibiotics. In 2017, the Veterinary Feed Directive required prescriptions for antibiotics in animal feed and drinking water.” “The University of Minnesota (UMN) and North Dakota State University (NDSU) Extension will […]
Continue reading...June 20, 2022 Andy Wyenandt
Cucurbit powdery mildew control in 2023
Cucurbit powdery mildew (CPM), caused by Podosphaera xanthii, is one the most important diseases of cucurbit crops throughout the world. The pathogen is an obligate parasite, just like cucurbit downy mildew, meaning it needs a living host in order to survive. In northern regions that have a killing frost in the fall the pathogen will […]
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