Rutgers Cooperative Extension
The On-Farm Food Safety Team will hold twilight meeting at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Bridgeton focusing on the cleaning and sanitation of postharvest equipment. Topics to be covered: Cleaning Packing Equipment Difference Between Cleaning & Sanitizing Sanitary Design of Packing Lines Different products to use for monitoring pH and sanitizer concentration […]
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Note: Next week (10/6) will be the final scheduled edition of the Vegetable IPM Update. Sweet Corn Corn earworm (CEW) moth captures from both trap types have declined dramatically with lower evening temperatures, although the population still poses a threat to remaining sweet corn. It is likely that CEW activity will rise and fall with […]
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Please join us for the Northeast Green Industry Showcase this Friday and Saturday (OCTOBER 1-2, 2021) at the Hunterdon County Fairgrounds. Educational Programing provided by Rutgers University in cooperation with NJLCA – pesticide recertification credits are available for select presentations What is NGIS? – The Northeast Green Industry Showcase is a comprehensive landscape, nursery, horticulture, […]
Continue reading...As posted throughout the season, grasshopper broods were prolific in South-Central NJ cropfields this year. Populations were also reported above normal in adjoining states. If you saw defoliating damage or grain damage from grasshoppers this year, it is highly likely more than one brood; and more than one species of grasshoppers (differential, two-striped red-legged) laid […]
Continue reading...Corn Earworm Management in Sweet Corn Needs Assessment Survey – One Final Time!! Dr. Kelly Hamby, Associate Professor/Extension Specialist with the Department of Entomology at University of Maryland, is leading a team of researchers (including Rutgers IPM personnel) who have developed a survey to prioritize research and extension efforts for improving corn earworm management in […]
Continue reading...At the request of the New Jersey Departments of Health and Agriculture, please read the following message: Our offices are working diligently to ensure that all farmworkers are protected against COVID-19 for the fall season – to that end, we have developed a new survey to assess the migrant and seasonal farm worker population for […]
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