Nursery and Landscape Pest Scouting Guide 150-250 GDD50: Please print or download these resources (click on them): Printable Nursery Pest Scouting 150-250 GDD Expanded Nursery Pest Scouting Guide 150-250 GDD with CLICKABLE LINKS (Zoom in and click directly on the links within this document) Compiled Nursery and Landscape Pest Scouting 0-250 GDD (Printable) Remember: To […]
Continue reading...Nursery and Landscape Pest Scouting Guide: 150-250 Growing Degree-days and Boxwood Blight Risk ( currently = low risk )
Tractor Safety – “No Seat, No Rider”
There is no argument that tractors have forever changed agriculture. The use of tractors has long replaced the presence of draft horses on almost every farm in America. It is estimated that cultivation of land with a modern tractor allows 64 acres to be plowed in the time it took to cultivate one acre with […]
Continue reading...Ask the Expert Series Orchard Edition

Ask the Expert Series Orchard Edition Please Join us for an Interactive Discussion on Tree Fruit Insect Pests April 21: 9AM-10AM Zoom Link: https://go.rutgers.edu/eu5ps890 Meeting ID: 970 1440 2692 Password: 989229 Join by Phone: +1 646 558 8656 Expert Panelists Anne Nielsen Ph.D. Associate Extension Specialist in Entomology, Rutgers University and Arthur Agnello Ph.D. […]
Continue reading...Tree Fruit IPM Report for April 12, 2021
Tree Fruit Phenology: Tree Fruit Phenology remains about normal. In southern counties all peach orchards are at full bloom to petal fall. Redhaven was at approximately full bloom on 4/12. Plums are at petal fall and pears are at full bloom. Red Delicious is at pink with just a few blossoms beginning to open. Sweet […]
Continue reading...A spray tank’s last check list visual aide for corn and soybean weed management
Back in March, regional weed extension professionals discussed creating a visual aide chart for herbicide selection for the big three problematic weeds (palmer amaranth, common ragweed and marestail) in corn and soybean. Below are two url links to “A Spray Tank’s Last Checklist in Soybean“; and “A Spray Tank’s Last Checklist in Corn” courtesy of […]
Continue reading...Improving Your Early Season Peach Brown Rot Control Program – An Update
Have you ever felt that you did everything right at controlling brown rot during the preharvest period, but still got a significant amount of brown rot at harvest? Your preharvest fungicide applications were at tight intervals during the roughly 21-day fruit ripening period. Rains occurred but you were protected. Even when you looked back at […]
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