Rutgers Cooperative Extension
By Hemant Gohil and Megan Muehlbauer The weather forecast for the next few days indicate subfreezing temperature in several parts of New Jersey. In fruit crops, such events during the flower bud development, can cause crop loss which could vary from minor loss of quality and quantity to a total crop loss. Recently, frost events […]
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Sweet Corn IPM Program personnel are currently finishing deployment of the black light trap network in New Jersey. At present, we are approximately 70% operational and have begun to monitor traps. With below normal temperatures, no corn earworm (CEW) or European corn borer (ECB) moths have been captured. As numbers increase, look for population maps […]
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Communicating your policies to customers is critical during this season, especially about your COVID-19 policies. Printable signs have been developed for use on New Jersey farms. Click on the images below for a direct link to the letter-size paper printable of each sign. Visit the Rutgers On-Farm Food Safety COVID-19 website for more resources. Cloth […]
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The weather this spring has been anything but normal with the up and downs in the temperature as well as the on and off again sunny days followed by many days of cloudy weather. These types of weather patterns can cause problems in transplant production in the greenhouse, especially when it comes time for watering. […]
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Tree Fruit Phenology: Tree Fruit Phenology remains advanced, but development is slowing. In southern counties peach orchards are at Shuck Split to Shuck Off. Pears are past Petal Fall. Red Delicious was about Full Bloom on 4/25 and is late bloom/Petal Fall on May 4. Other varieties still have considerable bloom. Cherries are just […]
Continue reading...New Jersey Statewide Tree Fruit Twilight Meeting May 12, 2020 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM It has been a VERY busy spring for the tree fruit industry in New Jersey. Let us all take an evening to sit and discuss field and industry updates. Rutgers University Agricultural Agents and Specialists will assist us all in […]
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