SAVE THE DATES! North Jersey RCE Educational Meetings for Fruit and Vegetable Growers North Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight Meeting I March 29, 2022 4:30-7:30pm Rutgers University Snyder Research Farm Pittstown, NJ North Jersey Tree Fruit and Vegetable Twilight Meeting II April 19, 2022 4:30-7:30pm Alstede Farms Chester, NJ North Jersey Tree Fruit […]
Continue reading...March 21, 2022 Megan Muehlbauer
SAVE THE DATES! North Jersey RCE Educational Meetings for Fruit and Vegetable Growers
March 18, 2022 Meredith Melendez
Are Your Produce Buyers Talking about Third-Party Audits?
An increasing number of farms are being asked by their wholesale produce customers to comply with a third-party audit. What do you need to know if a buyer asks you to have a third-party audit? Who would ask for a third-party audit? Current buyers of your product may notify you that you need a third-party […]
Continue reading...March 16, 2022 Melissa Bravo
Wondering what manure is worth right now?
Given the high costs of ‘commercial’ fertilizer components (N, P, K), many are looking at the range of nutrient credit from “unmanipulated animal or vegetable manure”1 sources. Here is a very comprehensive calculator created by The University of Minnesota Extension for growers who keep track of all costs associated with fertilizer application. To fine tune […]
Continue reading...March 16, 2022 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Online Questionnaire on Spotted-Wing Drosophila (SWD)
The Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) team on Spotted-Wing Drosophila (SWD) is working on Best Management Practices to effectively manage this pest on small fruit crops in the United States. The research team has developed some technologies which are currently being used by growers and is still researching ways to improve on these technologies. […]
Continue reading...March 16, 2022 Tim Waller
Action required NOW to safeguard Nursery shipping – SLF egg mass guide, additional resources, permitting
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT – PLUS EGG MASS VISUAL GUIDE Crippling load-by-load phytosanitary requirements are a very REAL concern for the nursery industry this spring. WE as an industry are in this together, in order to safeguard our industry please do the following: SLF Training Permits for hang-tags (click here) are required for each company driver who […]
Continue reading...March 11, 2022 Melissa Bravo
Permitting Procedure for Importation of Poultry, Hatching Eggs, or Poultry Waste from Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) States
Producers, please be aware of the following permit requirements. The updated list of states with detections can be accessed at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/2022-hpai The following information is from the NJ Dept. of Agriculture https://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/ah/diseases/avian_influenza.html Only poultry or hatching eggs moving into New Jersey live bird markets, from HPAI states, require a permit and 72 hour test. The […]
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