Rutgers Cooperative Extension
If you have written your food safety plan and are preparing for a third party audit, the Rutgers On-Farm Food Safety Team offers farm “walk-throughs” to help evaluate your written plan and compliance activities. Over many years of performing walk-throughs, we’ve found some common situations that can foil the goal of making it through the […]
Continue reading...This week in Fruit IPM Peach Apple Pear Wine Grapes Scouting Calendar Tree Fruit Trap Counts Blueberry Blueberry Trap Counts Click to View | Download PDF
Continue reading...Potato Disease Forecasting Report 6-13-14 – Click to Download 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 in southern […]
Continue reading...6-13-14 Tomato Report – Click to Download Disease severity values (DSVs) for early blight, septoria leaf spot, and tomato anthracnose development are determined daily based on leaf wetness (due to rainfall, dew) and air temperature. On a daily basis DSV values can range from 0 to 4 where 0 = no chance for disease development […]
Continue reading...Over the past 7-10 days it has become clear that a bacterial spot epidemic is underway. It is eerily reminiscent of the epidemic of 1997, although so far it does not appear as widespread or affecting all cultivars as that year. Many blocks are dropping leaves this week, and fruit lesions are beginning to appear. […]
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Vegetable IPM Report 6-11-14 – Click to View | Download | Print Maps for the Week –European Corn Borer Population Map –Corn Earworm Moth Pheromone Trap Map –Pepper Weevil Trap Catch Map Topics for the Week Sweet Corn Cole Crops Peppers Tomatoes Pumpkins and Winter Squash Snap Beans Pepper Weevil Report BMSB
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