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By Michelle Infante-Casella and Stephen Komar, Agricultural Agents-Rutgers Cooperative Extension Where does food come from? Does the U.S. produce enough food to feed all Americans? Let’s stop right there for a minute and go back almost 5 decades. In the 1970’s gasoline and other energy prices soared causing an American economic crisis. Our country was […]
Continue reading...Friday, May 8, 2020 7-8 PM This web-based producer forum is being held to discuss the challenges and opportunities for livestock marketing in response to Covid-19. Join Rutgers Cooperative Extension faculty and staff, NJDA staff, producers and others interested in direct marketing of livestock and value-added meat and poultry products. To Participate: Click to join. […]
Continue reading...New Jersey Department of Agriculture has issued a notice concerning open burning due to colder spring overnight temperatures presently forecasted for areas of New Jersey from Thursday, May 7 through Monday, May 11, 2020, which could adversely affect fruit, vegetable, and floriculture crops in bloom or near bloom around the state. For details read below […]
Continue reading...New Jersey Center for Wine Research and Education will be hosting guest speaker Donniella Winchell of the Ohio Wine Producers Association. Click the link below for an online presentation taking place Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 4:00 PM. Getting Ready to Get Back to Business. Beginning the Journey to Normalcy A collection of ideas from across the […]
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Temperature and Herbicide Performance With air temperatures remaining relatively low this spring, growers have asked about how temperature may affect the efficacy of herbicide applications. The effect of cool temperatures on weed control efficacy will depend on the type of herbicide application, the rate applied, and the physiological status of the target weed. Summer annual […]
Continue reading...An Important Message from Secretary Fisher (May 6, 2020) “As mentioned during the Governor’s press conference this afternoon by Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, a group led by the Department of Health, working in coordination with the Departments of Agriculture and Labor, is finalizing a Guidance Document, “COVID-19 Guidance for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, Their Employers […]
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