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.
Continue reading...August 18, 2020 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for August 19, 2020
August 12, 2020 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Vegetable IPM Update 8/12/20
Note: Cucurbit downy mildew has now been identified on cucumber in southern and northern NJ. See the pumpkin and winter squash section below for more information. 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 […]
Continue reading...August 12, 2020 Rick VanVranken
Additional “Guidance and Compliance Assistance on Farmworker Safety & Pay During the Pandemic” Offered by US Dept of Labor – Wage & Hour
The following message was shared by Shavonne Person, Community Outreach & Resource Planning Specialist (CORPS), and Steven Risko, Assistant District Director, U.S. Department of Labor – Wage & Hour Division, Southern New Jersey District Office in Lawrenceville: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division enforces some of our nation’s most comprehensive labor laws […]
Continue reading...August 12, 2020 Michael Westendorf
Hackettstown Livestock Auction Results for August 11, 2020
This auction sells: lambs, sheep, goats, calves, beef cattle, pigs, rabbits, and all types of heavy fowl. Auctions are held every Tuesday with the first sale beginning at 10:30 am and ending with the last sale at 5:30 pm. Hay, straw, grain, and firewood are also for sale. Hackettstown Livestock Auction Farm Fresh Eggs available […]
Continue reading...August 12, 2020 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Update – 8/12/20
No reports of Late blight in region. To track the progress of Late blight in the US please click here. Cucurbit downy mildew remains active on cucumber in southern and northern New Jersey. There have been no reports of CDM in other cucurbit crops in the region to date. For a review of CDM control […]
Continue reading...August 11, 2020 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for August 12, 2020
Peach: Stink Bugs Apples and Peaches: BMSB populations are generally low and little changed since last week. However, hatching egg masses are present statewide. Therefore populations can increase in the near future. As the peach season comes to a close, BMSB has the potential to be more of a problem in apples.
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