Forest Tree and Plant Identification Program Offered This Summer

Scan QR code or the link below! Forest Tree & Plant Identification Outdoor Lessons for Land Stewards

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Veg IPM update 6/12/25

6 tiny light-colored thrips on a tomato leaf.

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! Sweet Corn Early plantings of sweet corn are silking throughout New Jersey. Moth captures in much of the state (see map) are indicating that 4 day spray intervals are necessary, with pockets of higher pressure requiring 3 day intervals, and a few with lower pressure, indicating 5 or 6 […]

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Networks to reduce risk: Building viable NJ farms

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Agritourism Marketing Survey

WVU Extension and other colleagues are trying to understand how we can better help you with your Agritourism Marketing. It will tremendously help us to help you in the future. Please take a few minutes (at most 5 minutes) to answer the questions here: https://s.uconn.edu/agritourism-marketing

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Fruit IPM Report June 11, 2025

Peach: Bacterial Spot: Fruit symptoms are very low and only in highly susceptible varieties. Growers should continue to manage using Oxytetracycline and lower rates of copper, especially around rainy periods and severe weather. Fruit will become less susceptible to infection at pit hardening which is occurring now. Rusty Spot: Rusty spot infections are appearing on […]

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Basil downy mildew samples wanted by Rutgers!

Calling all commercial basil growers, researchers, home gardeners, and basil enthusiasts! Our team at Rutgers University, UMass Amherst, Bar-Ilan University, and University of Florida are asking for your help! Basil production is still threatened by the devastating Basil Downy Mildew disease and current methods of prevention and resistance are wavering. It appears that the pathogen […]

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