Plant & Pest Advisory

August 5, 2014 Wes Kline and Meredith Melendez

Audit Ready: Worker Break Areas

The USDA GAPs and USDA Harmonized Third Party audits require that worker break areas be separate from where saleable product is handled. The GAPs audit states “smoking and eating are confined to designated areas separate from where product is handled.” An auditor completing a GAPs audit will look to see that the break area is […]

Filed Under: Food Safety

August 5, 2014 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar

Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 8-5-14

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Filed Under: Disease Forecasting

August 1, 2014 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar

Potato | Tomato Disease Forecast 8-1-14

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Filed Under: Disease Forecasting

July 30, 2014 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar

Veg IPM Update: Week Ending 7/30/14

Vegetable IPM Report 7-30-14 – Click to View | Download | Print Maps for the Week –European Corn Borer Map –Corn Earworm Moth Blacklight Trap Map –Corn Earworm Moth Pheromone Trap Map Topics for the Week Sweet Corn Peppers Tomatoes BMSB Pumpkins and Winter Squash Basil

Filed Under: Vegetable Crops

July 30, 2014 Dean Polk

Fruit IPM Report July 29, 2014

This week in Fruit IPM Tree Fruit Grape Blueberry Click to View | Download PDF

Filed Under: Blueberry, Tree Fruit, Wine Grape

July 30, 2014 Richard Buckley

It’s Back!

Boxwood samples have been coming into the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory on a daily basis since the winter. Most of them have been diagnosed with winter damage, boxwood leafminer, or Volutella stem and leaf blight. Yesterday, we got our first sample with boxwood blight! The situation was typical of several others in New Jersey – new […]

Filed Under: Landscape, Nursery, & Turf, Plant Diagnostic Lab Tagged With: boxwood, boxwood blight