Plant & Pest Advisory

Rutgers University | New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station | Pesticide User Responsibility

August 11, 2018 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson

Fruit IPM for 8/12/18

It’s Here! Spotted lanternfly was found on Friday August 10 on a commercial Hunterdon County fruit and vegetable farm. The insect was found in a Tree of Heaven being used as a trap tree with a plastic catch basin placed around the base of the tree, and the first 5-6 feet of the trunk sprayed […]

Filed Under: Blueberry, Fruit, Landscape, Nursery, & Turf, Tree Fruit, Wine Grape

August 10, 2018 Joe Ingerson-Mahar

Corn Earworm Control in Sweet Corn

In the past, pyrethroid insecticides did very well against corn earworm. But in recent years we have seen the decline in the effectiveness of pyrethroids due to the development of resistance in the earworm population. Farmers who rely heavily on these insecticides run the risk of crop loss. Pyrethroids (IRAC group 3A) can still be used but […]

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops

August 9, 2018 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar

Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 8-10-18

Click to View | Download Report 8-10-18 Potato Disease Forecasting Report We will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. The first late blight fungicide application is recommended once 18 DSVs accumulate from green row. Green row typically occurs around the first week in May […]

Filed Under: Disease Forecasting Tagged With: potato, tomato

August 8, 2018 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar

IPM Update 08/08/18

Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) moth catches in black light traps remain very low. The second flight is proving to be very erratic, with some locations getting low numbers of moths while other regional traps catch none. There will be no map in this edition. Second generation feeding is often obscured by fall armyworm (FAW) feeding. […]

Filed Under: Organic Production, Vegetable Crops

August 7, 2018 Andy Wyenandt

RAREC Vegetable Twilight Meeting and Research Tour

Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 4:00 pm (meet at the shelter near the parking lot) Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center 121 Northville Rd., Bridgeton, NJ (Upper Deerfield) Tomato tasting will be at the picnic shelter and the wagon tour will leave at 4:30 pm to visit the trials Taste the new fresh market tomato breeding […]

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops

August 6, 2018 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar

Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 8-7-18

Click to View | Download Report 8-7-18 Potato Disease Forecasting Report We will be tracking DSVs for Late blight development and calculating P-days for initiating the first early blight fungicide application. The first late blight fungicide application is recommended once 18 DSVs accumulate from green row. Green row typically occurs around the first week in May […]

Filed Under: Disease Forecasting Tagged With: potato, tomato