Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Endangered Species Act and Pesticides: How will pesticide labels change to protect endangered species? Wednesday, March 20 at 11 a.m – Webinar Enacted in 1973, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires all federal agencies to consider the impact to threatened and endangered species and their critical habitat when making decisions. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
Continue reading...Growers that have been testing their wells for years have been asking us if that historical data would meet the four-sample requirement for FSMA for the first year and the answer we got from the FDA is NO. What that means for you: For harvest and post-harvest water, you are required to test each well […]
Continue reading...Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County will host a free, virtual presentation for farmers: Tools for Weed Identification and Management Thursday, March 14, 2024 6:00 to 7:00 p.m The presenter will be Thierry E. Besançon, PhD, Associate Professor and Extension Weed Science Specialist for Specialty Crops, Rutgers University, Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry […]
Continue reading...The standards go into effect May 1, 2024. There are several changes related to section numbers and deleted numbers so if you have your audit plan setup by section number check to make sure they have not changed. Also, eight questions have been added. Following is a summary of those questions: G 2.4 – Approved […]
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In a Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) grant designed to guide future solution and resources centered around field equipment sanitation, collaborative team comprising pathologists, weed scientists, agronomists, and experts in agricultural equipment sanitation has crafted a questionnaire. This questionnaire is designed to gather growers’ input on their current practices and determine the necessity for implementing […]
Continue reading...This certificate online class is our last food safety program of the season, so if your auditors or buyers are requiring you to take food safety training and you have not done so for the 2024 season this is the class for you. What you will learn: How to Verify that Your Cleaning and Sanitizing […]
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