NJ Secretary of Agriculture Doug Fisher has shared this attached letter inviting the agricultural community to join a virtual “Ag Stakeholder Engagement Call” on May 25 at 2:00 p.m. Hosted by the Departments of Health, Labor and Agriculture, the Commissioners and Secretary will discuss NJ’s response to COVID-19, provide updates on mitigation efforts and guidance, […]
Continue reading...May 20, 2021 Rick VanVranken
Ag Community Invited to Join a Virtual DOH/DOL/NJDA “Ag Stakeholder Engagement Call” on May 25 at 2:00 p.m.
May 20, 2021 Steven K. Rettke
Landscape Pest Notes: Some Late Spring Insects (Part 1)
Since there are still nearly 5-weeks before the official start of summer, the accumulation of growing-degree-days (GDD) will continue to accelerate over the next several weeks. Many of our landscape insect pests will be rapidly emerging and be entering their best control windows before they potentially cause feeding symptoms. This writing contains part 1 of […]
Continue reading...May 19, 2021 Andy Wyenandt
Avoid Sunscald Injury in Transplants
The weather has been relatively dry these past few weeks and temperatures are already beginning to warm up this week, thus we need to be cautious about sunscald developing on the stems of transplants, especially those being set onto black plastic mulch. With a little planning ahead potential losses to sunscald injury can reduced significantly. […]
Continue reading...May 19, 2021 Andy Wyenandt
Identifying and Controlling Early-Season Damping-off Pathogens
It is extremely important to know which pathogen is causing damping-off problems and which fungicide to properly apply. The key to controlling damping-off is being proactive instead of reactive. Always refer to the fungicide label for crop use, pathogens controlled, and application rates. Damping-off is caused by a number of important vegetable pathogens and is […]
Continue reading...May 19, 2021 Andy Wyenandt
Manage your transplant watering schedule
The weather this spring has been relatively normal to date. However, we have had some dry weather these past few weeks. Unfortunately, weather patterns can cause problems in transplant production, especially when it comes time for watering. Hot days may require more than one watering, and cloudy days may require no water. In either case, […]
Continue reading...May 19, 2021 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Vegetable IPM Update 5/19/21
Sweet Corn The black light trap network in New Jersey is now operational. To date, one corn earworm (CEW) at Green Creek (Cape May County), and several European corn borer (ECB) moths have been captured. As numbers increase, look for population maps of ECB, CEW, brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) and CEW catches from pheromone […]
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