Rutgers Cooperative Extension
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. […]
Continue reading...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 […]
Continue reading...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 […]
Continue reading...Click to View | Download Report 8-4-18 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 […]
Continue reading...Cucurbit downy mildew has been confirmed on cucumber, butternut squash, and pumpkin in NJ this growing season. Recent weather has been ideal for its development. All cucurbit growers should scout their fields on a regular basis and consider adding a downy mildew specific fungicide to their weekly maintenance sprays. CDM has been reported in cantaloupe in MD this past […]
Continue reading...In association with Rutgers Cooperative Extension, the NJFDMA (that’s the New Jersey Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association) would like to invite farm marketers to join them for their late summer farm market tour on August 29, 2018. Tentative schedule: 1:00pm: Pick up at the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County building in Mays Landing 2:15pm: Pick […]
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