The updated USDA Harmonized Audit Standards and Checklists are to be used starting on May 1, 2017. The USDA has made changes to the Harmonized audits. Most changes are minor. Listed below are the section numbers with major changes for each audit. Field Operations and Harvesting Standard: 2.1.3, 2.4.3.4, 2.4.3.5, 2.4.3.6 and section 5 […]
Continue reading...April 18, 2017 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Allium Leafminer Alert II in New Jersey
A survey of fields from Princeton/Pennington in Mercer County northward through Milford and Asbury (Hunterdon County) and east to Chester in central Morris Co. revealed heavy allium leafminer feeding and active adults in chives only. There was only one garlic plant at the Pennington site that had feeding signs. Yellow sticky cards from chive plots in the […]
Continue reading...April 18, 2017 Hemant Gohil
South Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight Meeting III
5:00 pm May 1, 2017 @ Hill Creek Farms, 1631 State Highway 45, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062 5:00 pm. Welcome Remarks and Updates Hemant Gohil, Gloucester County Agriculture Agent and Program Organizer 5:05 pm. National Peach Council Updates […]
Continue reading...April 17, 2017 Dave Schmitt
Tree Fruit IPM Report for April 17, 2017
Peach: Brown Rot: Blossom infections from the brown rot fungus can occur whenever pistils are exposed and a favorable climate exists. Infections can occur during any wetting period when temperatures are between 41 and 86 °F. However, optimum conditions for infection occur with wetting and temperatures in the mid 70’s. During long wetting periods (several […]
Continue reading...April 16, 2017 Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Allium Leafminer Alert in New Jersey
Numerous adult flies of the allium leafminer (ALM) have been found in field chives at an organic farm in Mercer County. The chives were near a high tunnel that had plant material where the flies had overwintered as pupae. Because of being in the high tunnel the flies emerged sooner than unprotected field populations. The […]
Continue reading...April 16, 2017 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Update – 4/17/17
Vegetable Disease Notes: Powdery mildew has been reported in a number of tomato greenhouse operations. For control of powdery mildew and other important diseases in greenhouses and high tunnels please see Table E14 on pages E52-E54 of 2016-2017 Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations Guide. A new article on the importance of testing for Dickeya dianthicola in […]
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