Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Efforts have been made in recent years in New Jersey and the surrounding mid-Atlantic region to help vegetable growers understand and manage potential fungicide resistance development on their farm. Since 2007, Fungicide Resistance Management Guidelines have been available and distributed to vegetable growers throughout the region. Over, 20,000 FRAC guides have been distributed over the past […]
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White mold, or lettuce drop, caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, has been reported. White mold can cause serious losses in lettuce and other susceptible crops if left uncontrolled.
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This week in Fruit IPM Peach Apple Pear Blueberry Scouting Calendar Trap Counts (Southern Counties)
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Stinger has been labeled for weed control orchards for years, and now has a label for use in blueberries. The weeds controlled fall into two botanical plant families, composites and legumes. Common composite weeds found in our orchards include Canada thistle and other thistles, goldenrod species, aster species, common dandelion, mugwort (wild chrysanthemum), horseweed (marestail […]
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Casoron will control most annual broadleaf weeds and suppress or control many perennial broadleaf weeds in cranberries, including redroot. Apply Casoron 4G to cranberry bogs after the winter flood has been removed, but before the vines break winter dormancy and begin to grow.
Continue reading...PPO-herbicides (Group 14) used in this area include Sharpen, Valor, Authority, Reflex, Blazer, Cobra, Aim, and Cadet. In addition to the single active ingredients, there are a number of premixes containing these PPO herbicides. This group is quite varied so making generalizations about these herbicides is difficult. PPOs have gained popularity in the past few […]
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