Water testing is a major component of FSMA. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that growers begin sampling agricultural water to create a microbial water quality profile when they need to start complying with FSMA. No grower needs to start sampling until January, 2018 (growers over $500,000), small growers 2019 (growers between $250,000 and […]
Continue reading...May 3, 2017 Meredith Melendez
Ag Water and Produce Safety
Gretchen Wall of the Produce Safety Alliance talked with growers at the NJ Agricultural Convention and Trade show about agricultural water and produce safety under the FSMA Produce Safety Rule. This recorded talk is now available at the Rutgers NJAES YouTube channel.
Continue reading...May 3, 2017 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 5/03/17
Sweet Corn The Vegetable IPM blacklight trap network is nearly complete. With limited numbers of traps having been checked, only one European corn borer (Allentown, Mercer County) and one corn earworm (Old Bridge, Middlesex County) have been recorded. As sweet corn is currently in the seedling stage, neither of these catches represent a threat. As catches […]
Continue reading...May 2, 2017 Jim Murphy
Some Early Disease Activity
Sorry no pictures for this post, but thought I would share some recent observations. The recent rains and warm night on Friday/Saturday brought out two diseases on annual bluegrass earlier than we typically experience at the research farm in North Brun… Read More »
Continue reading...May 2, 2017 Jim Murphy
Some Early Disease Activity
Sorry no pictures for this post, but thought I would share some recent observations. The recent rains and warm night on Friday/Saturday brought out two diseases on annual bluegrass earlier than we typically experience at the research farm in North Brunswick NJ (Hort Farm No. 2). Saturday morning, our graduate student found nickel- to quarter-sized spots […]
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May 2, 2017 Jim Murphy
Some Early Disease Activity
Sorry no pictures for this post, but thought I would share some recent observations. The recent rains and warm night on Friday/Saturday brought out two diseases on annual bluegrass earlier than we typically experience at the research farm in North Brunswick NJ (Hort Farm No. 2). Saturday morning, our graduate student found nickel- to quarter-sized spots […]
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