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...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...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 […]
Continue reading...Vegetable Disease Update – 5/30/18
Downy mildew was confirmed on pea last week. The cool, damp weather the past week has been ideal for downy mildew development on spring crops. Soft rot, caused by Pectobacterium spp., was detected on planted potato seed last week in southern New Jersey. Bacterial leaf spot in romaine lettuce was found in the past week. The […]
Continue reading...Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 5-29-18
Click to View | Download Report 5-29-18 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...Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 5-25-18
Click to View | Download Report 5-25-18 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 […]
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