Rutgers Cooperative Extension
White mold, or timber rot, caused by the soil-borne fungal pathogen, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, was found this past week in a high tunnel. The photo on right shows a high tunnel tomato plant with main stem infected by white mold. Over time the entire plant will slowly collapse looking similar to a wilt or root rot […]
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Wet weather is expected to come in during the first part of the week and linger around for most of it. Now that strawberries are in full production growers need to pay close attention to fruit rots such as anthracnose and botrytis. Overipe or unharvested mature berries left in commercial or u-pick fields can act […]
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Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) adults are being captured with increasing frequency now. Areas of highest activity now include parts of Hunterdon and Morris counties (see ECB map). Within the past 3 days, IPM personnel have found low level ECB infestations in some of the earliest sweet corn plantings. At present, reports of feeding […]
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[Download PDF version] Peach Tufted Apple Budmoth (TABM) Timings for TABM control are outlined below. This is now a minor pest, due to its increased control in recent years. TABM adults started to emerge in northern counties on 5/17. If you are a grower who did have TABM damage last year, you are advised to […]
Continue reading...Traceability, which we often talk about as one step forward and one step backwards, is an important part of your food safety plan. Expect the auditor to spend time discussing and looking at examples of your traceability program. Here is what should be included in your traceability program: One step forward: 1. Reconciliation of product […]
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