Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015, 5:30 p.m. Location: Meet at the trailer near parking lot Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center 121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ (Upper Deerfield) Agenda 5:30: Taste the new tomato breeding lines that will be released soon and tour the tomato plots Tom Orton, PhD, Specialist in Vegetables Check out a […]
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July 29, 2015 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/29/15
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) adult activity is stable, with low level activity in parts of the state now. This is the beginning of the second adult flight. Areas of highest activity are still along the Delaware Bay Shore and in central Morris County (see ECB map), but areas between should fill in over […]
Continue reading...July 29, 2015 Norman Lalancette
Brown Rot Management in a Wet Growing Season: Part III
Brown rot of peach and nectarine fruit results from the interaction of many different factors. In Part I of this series, we discussed the various sources of inoculum and their importance for disease development (see July 21 posting). In Part II, we examined the many facets of spray application technology and
Continue reading...July 27, 2015 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 7-28-15
Click to View | Download Report 7-28-15 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 24, 2015 Norman Lalancette
Brown Rot Management in a Wet Growing Season: Part II
In part I of this article series, we discussed the sources of inoculum for fruit infection by the brown rot pathogen, Monilinia fructicola (see July 21, 2015 article). Although measures to reduce the inoculum from these sources were presented, these cultural controls alone only provide partial control. They are to be used in conjunction with […]
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