Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Each year, Rutgers hosts a Horse Management Seminar featuring invited speakers from New Jersey and across the U.S. on a wide range of topics in equine health, performance, and management. The seminar has traditionally been held on the second Sunday in February at the Rutgers Cook Campus. However, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the 2021 Horse […]
Continue reading...Reminder: register here by Wednesday Feb. 17th for pesticide credits! Please join us at the NEW- Nursery and Ornamentals Track at this year’s virtual VGA Nursery/Ornamental track is on Monday, February 22nd Session I: 9:15 – 11:45am Session II: 1:15 – 3:45pm (pesticide recertification credits acquired: 3 Cat 1A; 4 Cat 3A; 4 Cat 8C; […]
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WITCHES’ BROOMS: The development of witches’ brooms on woody plants and the resulting formation of abnormal growth can cause curiosity and concern to your clients. Typically, the new growth is distorted, and a proliferation of leaves or fruit/cones closely clumped together appears when apical dominance is lost. Witches’ Brooms are created on plants when the […]
Continue reading...To streamline NJ’s pesticide exam process, Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education has announced that the new online Pesticide Applicator Certification Exam Registration (PACER) system is available for your use immediately. pacer.rutgers.edu How the new system benefits YOU: Online Access: Web-based PACER application is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No More […]
Continue reading...Pepper Weevil Management and Research Priorities March 3, 2021, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Online Zoom Meeting Pepper growers/agribusiness professionals/extension personnel are invited to attend a virtual meeting to discuss current pepper weevil management tactics and to set research priorities. Since 2006, at least one farm each growing season has been infested with pepper weevil. So […]
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