Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Sweet Corn Catches of European corn borer (ECB) are now in decline through much of the state. Remaining areas of highest activity include parts of Morris and Warren counties (see ECB map). ECB infestations are now rising in sweet corn plantings. Feeding ranges from single digits to 12% in areas where IPM personnel are operating.
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A boxwood per day helps keep the doctors away! All of us here in the Plant Diagnostic Lab must be pretty healthy then–since the boxwood blight outbreak in 2013, we get a dose of dead boxwood almost every day.
Continue reading...Click to View | Download Report 6-9-15 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 […]
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Do not forget to include your cleaning procedures for irrigation water tanks and pesticide application tanks in your food safety plan. Auditors will be looking for this information during the audit process. The cleaning and maintenance of these tanks falls under standard 2.8 Vehicles, Equipment, Tools and Utensils. Auditors will look for the following: 1. Equipment […]
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Sweet Corn Cold temperatures and rain this week have prevented catches of European corn borer (ECB) from rising, and much of the activity represented in the map occurred over the weekend. Areas of highest activity include parts of Hunterdon, Morris and Burlington counties (see ECB map). Low level ECB infestations are present in early sweet […]
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