Click to View | Download Report 7-28-17 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...July 26, 2017 Dean Polk
Grape Root Borer – Do I Need to Treat?
Dean Polk, Statewide Fruit IPM Agent and Dr. Anne Nielsen, Extension Specialist in Fruit Entomology A number of growers have recently asked about treatments for grape root borer. Grape root borer (Vitacea polistiformis Harris) is a comparatively large clearwing moth. The adults can resemble Polistes wasps, and can often be confused with these insects, especially […]
Continue reading...July 26, 2017 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for July 26, 2017
Peach: Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB): Adults are present at two sites in Monmouth and Middlesex Counties. Numbers are very low, and in both cases the orchard consists of weedy ground cover.
Continue reading...July 26, 2017 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/26/17
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) catches are still low, but catches are beginning to occur in more locations now (see ECB map at left). This is an indication that the second flight is beginning. ECB feeding in NJ sweet corn plantings is nearly non-existent at this time, but will appear again within 1-2 weeks. Check […]
Continue reading...July 25, 2017 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Upcoming Event – ACGA Summer Meeting
Event – American Cranberry Growers Association (ACGA) Summer Meeting Date – August 17, 2017 Location– Rutgers P.E. Marucci Center, Chatsworth NJ Agenda CRANBERRY BOGS: 8:30–8:45 Opening Remarks Shawn Cutts, President, American Cranberry Growers Association 8:45-9:05 Screening of POST Herbicides for Controlling Carolina Redroot (Lachnanthes caroliana) in New Jersey Cranberry Beds (Bog 6) Thierry Besancon and […]
Continue reading...July 25, 2017 Wes Kline
Packinghouse Layout, Cleaning and Sanitation
Many packinghouses in New Jersey have not been updated in many years. If you haven’t, now is the time to be thinking about what changes will be needed to comply with a third-party audit or the Food Safety Modernization Act. Analyzing your packinghouse may also save money. Any time saved during packing will save money. […]
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