Click to View | Download Report 6-5-18 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...June 4, 2018 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Sparganothis Fruitworm Degree-Day Update: as of June 4, 2018
Based on our degree-day model for Sparganothis fruitworm, flight initiation is expected at around 596 DD (see chart). As of June 4, Sparganothis has accumulated 626 DD (using April 15 as biofix) or 586 DD (using April 25 as biofix). This indicates that flight activity has just started or will start soon. Growers are advised […]
Continue reading...Fruit IPM for 5/31/18
Peach: Oriental Fruit Moth (OFM): Applications made for the first generation are now over in all counties, unless trap counts exceed 6 moths per trap. The second generation flight should start in about a week to 10 days with controls targeted starting about mid-June in southern counties.
Continue reading...May 31, 2018 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 6-1-18
Click to View | Download Report 6-1-18 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...May 31, 2018 Michelle Infante-Casella
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County Has New Office Location
County Agricultural Agents, Michelle Infante-Casella and Hemant Gohil have a new office location in Gloucester County. The Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) Office in Gloucester County relocated last week. The new location is now at the Shady Lane County Complex, 254 County House Road, Clarksboro, NJ 08020. The entrance is on the right side of the […]
Continue reading...May 30, 2018 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
IPM Update 5/30/18
Sweet Corn Increasing numbers of European corn borer (ECB) moths have been captured this past week, but still relatively few moths overall. At present, the highest activity is on the Cumberland-Atlantic border, with minor concentrations in Salem and northern Burlington counties (see ECB map). As early sweet corn plantings progress through whorl and pre-tassel stages, feeding from this […]
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