My apologies for not including our nursery growers that may also be impacted by this guidance when originally posted last week. NJ Dept of Agriculture Secretary Douglas Fisher just announced, “At 3:30 today, we just received final approval to release the attached official guidance on migrant seasonal farmworker housing.” The New Jersey Department of Health […]
Continue reading...May 26, 2020 Rick VanVranken
JUST RELEASED – INTERIM COVID-19 Guidance For Migrant & Seasonal Farmworkers, Their Employers, & Housing Providers
May 22, 2020 Michael Westendorf
COVID-19 and Animals
Currently, there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Based on the limited data available, the risk of animals spreading COVID-19 to people is low. In some rare situations, people may be able to spread the virus to animals. Further studies are needed to understand […]
Continue reading...May 22, 2020 Thierry Besancon
10 Best Management Practices to Avoid Herbicide Drift
The last few weeks have been very windy, and we already received numerous calls from specialty crops growers inquiring about the risk of herbicide drift or investigating if observed crop damages may be the result of herbicide drift. Why does it seem like crops are more affected by herbicide drift in the spring? Well, mostly […]
Continue reading...May 20, 2020 Rick VanVranken
JUST RELEASED – INTERIM COVID-19 Guidance For Migrant & Seasonal Farmworkers, Their Employers, & Housing Providers
NJ Dept of Agriculture Secretary Douglas Fisher just announced, “At 3:30 today, we just received final approval to release the attached official guidance on migrant seasonal farmworker housing.” The New Jersey Department of Health is partnering with its sister agencies New Jersey Department of Agriculture and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development to […]
Continue reading...May 20, 2020 Michelle Infante-Casella
Wednesday Discussions: Ask the Ag Agent
Last night on “Ask the Ag Agent” we discussed The NJ Department of Health’s “Interim Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Guidance for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, Their Employers, and Housing Providers” guidance document. We will continue to facilitate discussion on “Ask the Ag Agent” forum for this topic and others next week. Please feel free to […]
Continue reading...May 20, 2020 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
IPM Update 5/20/20
Sweet Corn The black light trap network is complete at this time. To date, one corn earworm (CEW) was captured at Eldora, Cape May County. A very few European corn borer (ECB) moths have been captured this past week, indicating that as warmer weather begins to arrive, we should see increasing numbers over the next several weeks. […]
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