Dear Organic Fruit Growers, Pest Management Professionals and other stakeholders: Spotted-wing drosophila (SWD) has emerged as a devastating pest of small and stone fruits worldwide. We have organized a webinar to provide you with the most updated information on everything you need to know for organic management of SWD. Please register at: https://eorganic.org/node/33992 to attend […]
Continue reading...February 21, 2020 Anna Molinski
Grape Expectations Symposium 2020
The 2020 Grape Expectations Symposium will be held on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at the Forsgate Country Club, 375 Forsgate Drive, Monroe Township, NJ, 08831. The daylong seminar includes a series of lectures given by professionals in viticulture (grape growing), enology (winemaking), and marketing. Lectures are designed to present new and relevant information to professionals […]
Continue reading...February 15, 2020 Andy Wyenandt
Theories on managing fungicide resistance development by tank mixing or rotating fungicides
The question of whether to tank mix high-risk (HR) fungicides with low-risk (LR) protectant fungicides or the rotation of HR fungicides with LR fungicides remains an open debate. The tank mixing or alternation of fungicides has been widely advocated as a means to delay or minimize the risks of resistance development (Genet et al., 2006; […]
Continue reading...February 14, 2020 Megan Muehlbauer
North Jersey Commercial Vegetable & Fruit Growers Meetings
NORTH JERSEY COMMERCIAL VEGETABLE GROWERS MEETING February 26, 2020 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Hunterdon County Complex 314 State Rt. 12, Building #1 Flemington, NJ Program Program Chair: Peter Nitzsche, Agriculture and Resource Management Agent Cooperative Extension of Morris County 8:30 – Registration – Coffee and pastry compliments of industry sponsors 9:00 – […]
Continue reading...February 14, 2020 Andy Wyenandt
Phytophthora-tolerant and -resistant bell pepper variety trial reports
Phytophthora blight caused by Phytophthora capsici is one of the most economically important diseases in pepper, tomato, and cucurbit production in New Jersey. Each year for the past few decades Rutgers has evaluated new bell pepper cultivars and breeding lines for their resistance to P. capsici in field trials at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and […]
Continue reading...February 13, 2020 Andy Wyenandt
2019 Bell Pepper Variety Trial Report
The 2019 Bell Pepper Variety Trial Report for the evaluation of bell pepper cultivars with varying levels of resistance to bacterial leaf spot is now available on-line by clicking the link below. Bacterial leaf spot in bell (and non-bell) peppers causes significant problems each year. In recent years, a number of new bell pepper cultivars […]
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