There are two remaining farm food safety workshops scheduled for the 2014 growing season. Wednesday March 19, 9:00 – 4:00 Introduction to Food Safety and Third Party Audits Rutgers Snyder Research Farm, Pittstown $40.00 includes materials and lunch RSVP with 3/19/14 registration form Wednesday March 26, 9:00 – 4:00 GAPs and Farm Food Safety Writing Workshop […]
Continue reading...March 7, 2014 Mark VanGessel
Small Grain Weed Control Tidbits
From the table below, few herbicides are available for small grain application when vegetables will be planted after harvest. Harmony or Harmony Extra can be used with the ability to plant vegetables; Axial XL too can be used in very early spring. However, Starane Ultra applications in the spring are difficult to allow vegetable rotations, […]
Continue reading...March 5, 2014 Bill Bamka
Kudzu Bug Scouting Assistance
If you are aware of any fields in the southern portion of the state (particularly in Salem, Cumberland and Cape May) that has kudzu please contact me by e-mail @ bamka@njaes.rutgers.edu. As you may have heard the kudzu bug is knocking on New Jersey’s door. In July of 2013 the kudzu bug was found in Sussex […]
Continue reading...February 26, 2014 Michelle Infante-Casella
Agritourism Risk Management Tools
NJAES has a new program dedicated to risk management for Agritourism and Direct Marketing. Risk management tools aimed at addressing the following issues can be found our new Extension Training For Agritourism Development website. Minimizing farm safety risks Managing liability Mitigating financial risk through enterprise budgeting Improving marketing strategies Educational videos, enterprise budgets, fact sheets and […]
Continue reading...February 25, 2014 Anne Nielsen
‘Polar Vortex’ vs. Stink Bugs
This winter, especially January and February have been a bit cold, complete with ‘polar vortexes’ and lots of snow. There have been a couple of newspaper articles about how this will negatively impact insect pest populations, specifically brown marmorated stink bug. Is this true? For BMSB, most likely NO. While insects do have something similar […]
Continue reading...February 24, 2014 Richard Buckley
Spring Fever?
Hold your horses, the Spring Equinox is not until March 20th and if the 10-day forecasts hold true, then we are in for another visit from old man winter before the seasons change.
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