Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Chateau herbicide has a supplemental label for application to potatoes after hilling for preemergence suppression of various broadleaf weed species. This supplemental label will expire on June 30, 2017 and Chateau must not be used on potato after this date. This supplemental label will not be renewed by Valent as the company is in the […]
Continue reading...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...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...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...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...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 […]
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