Still time to Sign up for the remaining 2025 sessions- Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program Please visit our new –Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program Website (click here) Join us for the next session Tuesday 8/26/25 Topics covered: 1.Beneficial insect: Dragonflies 2. Leafcutter bees 3. Fleahopper 4. Nostoc 5. Nickel deficiency in River Birch 6. […]
Continue reading...August 22, 2025 Amanda Quadrel and Maria Cramer
Veg IPM Update 8/22/25
Greetings from the Veg IPM team! Sweet Corn Corn earworm (CEW) moth captures have increased and are now in the typical range for late August, with most southern and central locations needing 3-day spray intervals (see map). When temperatures are high (>85 degrees F), shorten the spray interval by one day. Rotation is important for […]
Continue reading...August 21, 2025 Kate Brown
Fall Vegetable Twilight Meeting
Fall Vegetable Twilight Meeting (REGISTRATION REQUIRED) Norz Hill Farm & Market, LLC., 120 S Branch Rd, Hillsborough Township, NJ 08844 Thursday, September 18, 2025 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm AGENDA 4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Welcome, load wagons, wagon ride to field 4:15 pm – 4:45 pm Drone Seeding Winter Cover Crops into Pumpkin Peter Nitzsche, Agricultural […]
Continue reading...August 18, 2025 Hemant Gohil and Daniel Ward
Mid-August Peach and Nectarine Varieties for New Jersey – New and Standard
Gloria: Developed by the Rutgers Tree Fruit Breeding program. A large, globose to slightly ovate, 60-90% scarlet red over yellow ground color, yellow-fleshed, freestone peach ripening from August 16-22. The flesh is very firm with low acid and good, very sweet and sub-acid flavor. The tree is vigorous, spreading, and very productive with low susceptibility […]
Continue reading...August 15, 2025 Amanda Quadrel and Maria Cramer
Veg IPM Update 8/15/25
Greetings from the Veg IPM team! Sweet Corn Corn earworm (CEW) moth captures are staying steady with 4-day spray intervals in most of the south and some 5- and 6-day intervals in the north (see map). When temperatures are high (>85 degrees F), shorten the spray interval by one day. Rotation is important for avoiding […]
Continue reading...August 15, 2025 Megan Muehlbauer and Janine Spies
Pre-Harvest Drop Control and Harvest Management for Apples
For growers interested in using these products on Early/Mid-Season apple varieties, now is the time to consider applying them. Think high value varieties such as early season Honeycrisp. As apples mature they produce the hormone ethylene. Ethylene induces stem loosening which results in pre-harvest drop of apples. Luckily there are several tools that when applied […]
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