Vegetable IPM Report 7-31-13 – Click to View | Download | Print Current Week’s Pest Maps – Available Maps for the week are highlighted European Corn Borer Map Corn Earworm Blacklight Map Corn Earworm Pheromone Map Brown Marmorated Stinkbug Map Vegetable IPM Pest Map Archive
Continue reading...July 29, 2013 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 7-30-13
Potato Disease Forecasting Report 7-30-13 – 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...July 29, 2013 A.Wyenandt, W.Kline, and J.Ingerson-Mahar
Tomato Disease Forecasting Report 7-30-13
7-30-13 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 […]
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ACGA 2013 Summer Field Day
American Cranberry Growers Association 2013 Summer Field Day Date: Thursday, August 15 Location: Rutgers P.E. Marucci Center for Blueberry & Cranberry Research & Extension, Chatsworth, NJ Parking will be available at the Center’s shop (across cranberry bogs). Transportation for tours will be provided at the Center. Agenda
Continue reading...July 28, 2013 Wes Kline
RAREC Vegetable Twilight and Research Tour
For Commercial Vegetable Growers Date: Tuesday, August 20, at 5:30 pm Location: RAREC 121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ (Upper Deerfield) Investigator Presentations and Research Plot Tours Bring your plant insect, disease, or weed samples for identification Pesticide recertification credits
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Are there Organic Alternatives to Glyphosate?
By Jim Murphy We receive requests for information on “organic” alternatives to glyphosate (e.g., Roundup), especially for “trim” sprays on paved areas, sidewalks, skin surfaces on ball fields, etc. The research on organic non-selective herbicides that are being marketed as replacements to glyphosate (for example, Roundup) is growing but it is much more limited that what you […]
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