Reminder: register here by Wednesday Feb. 17th for pesticide credits! Please join us at the NEW- Nursery and Ornamentals Track at this year’s virtual VGA Nursery/Ornamental track is on Monday, February 22nd Session I: 9:15 – 11:45am Session II: 1:15 – 3:45pm (pesticide recertification credits acquired: 3 Cat 1A; 4 Cat 3A; 4 Cat 8C; […]
Continue reading...February 15, 2021 Tim Waller
Reminder: Register for the VGA-Nursery/Ornamental sessions by this Wednesday (2/17) for pesticide credits!
February 15, 2021 Steven K. Rettke
Pest Notes: Witches’ Brooms, Pitch Mass Borers and Ants
WITCHES’ BROOMS: The development of witches’ brooms on woody plants and the resulting formation of abnormal growth can cause curiosity and concern to your clients. Typically, the new growth is distorted, and a proliferation of leaves or fruit/cones closely clumped together appears when apical dominance is lost. Witches’ Brooms are created on plants when the […]
Continue reading...February 12, 2021 Nick Polanin
Rutgers Online Pesticide Applicator Exam Portal is Open
To streamline NJ’s pesticide exam process, Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education has announced that the new online Pesticide Applicator Certification Exam Registration (PACER) system is available for your use immediately. pacer.rutgers.edu How the new system benefits YOU: Online Access: Web-based PACER application is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No More […]
Continue reading...February 11, 2021 Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Pepper Weevil Management and Research Priorities
Pepper Weevil Management and Research Priorities March 3, 2021, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Online Zoom Meeting Pepper growers/agribusiness professionals/extension personnel are invited to attend a virtual meeting to discuss current pepper weevil management tactics and to set research priorities. Since 2006, at least one farm each growing season has been infested with pepper weevil. So […]
Continue reading...February 8, 2021 Nick Polanin
USDA to Measure Financial Well-Being of Farmers and Ranchers
Initiated back in late December, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will be spending these next several months gathering information about farm economics and production practices from farmers and ranchers across the United States, as the agency conducts the third and final phase of the 2020 Agricultural […]
Continue reading...February 8, 2021 Andy Wyenandt
An update on the potato pathogen, Dickeya dianthicola
It has been nearly six years since Dickeya dianthicola was first reported in potato in New Jersey in 2015 and many other states up and down the East Coast in the spring and summer of 2016. Before then, this seed-borne pathogen had not been detected in potato fields in the mid-Atlantic region and elsewhere. Unfortunately, […]
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