With the looming risk of labor shortages and limitations on public visiting farms, tree fruit growers should consider their options for apple pre-harvest drop management. The past few nights have been cool enough for color development in early varieties such as Honeycrisp and Gala, emphasizing the need to initiate harvest management strategies. Excellent practical guidance […]
Continue reading...August 19, 2020 Michelle Infante-Casella
COVID-19 Safety Tips for Agritourism Operations
Continued community transmission of COVID-19 presents challenges to many businesses, including on-farm agritourism operations. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agritourism Working Group developed farm assessment resources titled, Considerations for Agritourism Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic, to assist producers with agritourism activities as part of their on-farm marketing strategies. Considerations listed are designed to help operators evaluate […]
Continue reading...August 19, 2020 Michelle Infante-Casella
Webinars: Considerations for Agritourism Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Monday, August 31, 2020 07:00 PM And Tuesday, September 1, 2020 07:00 PM For more information see: https://agritourism.rutgers.edu/training/ The Rutgers Cooperative Extension Agritourism Working Group developed considerations to assist NJ farmers with agritourism operations on their farms during the COVID-19 pandemic. This document is designed to help operators manage strategies for compliance with State executive […]
Continue reading...August 19, 2020 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Vegetable IPM Update 8/19/20
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) adults remain very low, and no map will appear in this edition. The highest nightly trap catches of ECB for the week ending 8/19/20 are as follows: Downer 1 Matawan 1 Fall armyworm (FAW) larval infestations continue at a fairly steady rate, except for coastal Monmouth County, where infestations […]
Continue reading...August 19, 2020 Nick Polanin
CFAP Webinars for Additional Eligible Commodities
Join the USDA Farm Service Agency this afternoon, Wednesday August 19th at 3 pm, for the “Coronavirus Food Assistance Program Producer Webinar: Additional Eligible Commodities Added.” USDA Farm Service Agency will discuss additional commodities that are now eligible for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), providing detailed examples on nursery crops, specialty crops, cut flowers, […]
Continue reading...August 18, 2020 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for August 19, 2020
Peach: Stink Bugs Apples and Peaches: BMSB populations are becoming quite high in several northern locations. These populations have the potential to do serious damage to apples where populations are high. Growers with high BMSB populations should consider weekly insecticide applications and/or supplemental border applications with BMSB effective insecticides.
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