Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Sweet Corn IPM Personnel are still capturing low numbers of European corn borer (ECB) moths, although even these captures are fairly sporadic, and extremely low in the northern counties (see map at left). Despite this, single digit feeding percentages were found on Middlesex county whorl stage corn on Wednesday of this week. It is likely […]
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Can you recall the smell of cut grass? Many plants, including cranberries, emit different smells, or volatiles, when damaged by cutting, but also when damaged by herbivorous insects. These volatiles could then be used by predators to find prey, or by parasitoids to find hosts. However, fertilizer applications may affect emissions of these herbivore-induced volatiles, […]
Continue reading...Recent news about glyphosate has many thinking about alternatives. Joe Neal (Professor of Weed Science, Extension Specialist & Department Extension Leader Horticultural Science) and Andrew Senesac (Extension Weed Scientist Cornell Cooperative Exten… Read More »
Continue reading...Recent news about glyphosate has many thinking about alternatives. Joe Neal (Professor of Weed Science, Extension Specialist & Department Extension Leader Horticultural Science) and Andrew Senesac (Extension Weed Scientist Cornell Cooperative Exten… Read More »
Continue reading...With the closing of the Purdue grain facility in Bordontown, field crops growers are sending trucks to southeastern PA to deliver grain, and produce shippers and others may be working/delivering to warehouses there too. Burlington County Agricultural Agent Bill Bamka shares the following information about shipping into or out of Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) quarantine zones […]
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Septoria leaf spot (SLS) in Parsley can cause significant losses in fields where it has become established. Like other Septoria’s, the leaf spots produced on parsley look much like the leaf spots produced on tomatoes and other crops. Septoria leaf spot overwinters from year to year on infected debris so long crop rotations of 2 […]
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