“On March 17, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) wildlife damage management program, Wildlife Services (WS), posted its annual Program Data Reports (PDR) for fiscal year (FY) 2020. The reports are available on the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) webpage, representing the 25th year that WS has shared this information about its […]
Continue reading...March 19, 2021 Melissa Bravo
Dummy calf. Causes, preventative measures
March 19, 2021What is a dummy calf? This condition refers to a newborn calf that has no voluntary muscle movement. Legs are stiff and unbendable. The calf is either born dead or presents with labored breathing and dies soon after parturition. This is due to the heart muscle being affected. Calves are often pre-mature in […]
Continue reading...March 18, 2021 Tim Waller
Early Season Conifer and Christmas Tree Pest Scouting List Using Growing Degree-days (base 50F)
Please print or download the two resources of this post (click on them): PRINTABLE Early Season Conifer Pest Scouting Guide 0-300 GDD (of information shown below) Expanded Early Season Conifer Pest Scouting Guide (0-300 GDD) with clickable links pertaining to pest’s biology, control considerations, and ID (Zoom in and click directly on the links within […]
Continue reading...March 17, 2021 Megan Muehlbauer
Attention Tree Fruit Growers
Ask the Expert Series Orchard Edition Please Join us for an Interactive Discussion on Tree Fruit Diseases to Prepare for in 2021 March 24 9AM-10AM Zoom Link: https://go.rutgers.edu/ywve4sbu Meeting ID: 978 2658 5787 Password: 381884 Join by Phone: 1 646 558 8656 Expert Panelists Norm Lalancette PhD Rutgers U. Tree Fruit Pathologist and […]
Continue reading...March 17, 2021 Tim Waller
Obtaining your local Growing Degree-day information
Why use local growing degree-day models? You need to know local growing degree-day accumulation values to use pest scouting/management target lists like this. Timing is everything in pest management! Degree-day models allow us to predict when to scout for pests and when to target vulnerable life stages of pest development. Growing degree-days (GDD50) refer to […]
Continue reading...March 17, 2021 Rick VanVranken
Agrivoltaics – Combining Solar Power & Farming in NJ — CORRECTED LINK
THE REGISTRATION LINK IN THIS POST HAS BEEN CORRECTED. Farming under solar panels = “Agrivoltaics”. On Wednesday, March 24th 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Rutgers NJAES will host a webinar on “Agrivoltaics” to explore farming the ground under solar panels (photovoltaics), what’s possible and what’s not in NJ. Please register in advance for this meeting […]
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