By garden state crop insurance education initiative April 11th is the earliest planting date for corn crop insurance policies April 21st is the earliest planting date for grain sorghum crop insurance polices April 30th is the contract change date for forage seeding policies If you have any questions please contact your crop insurance agent or […]
Continue reading...April 9, 2013 Richard Buckley
Can You Hear Me Knockin’?
If you have boxwoods on your property, bend over and take a listen. No, you haven’t suddenly become the plant whisperer! What you are hearing is not the boxwood talking, but the late-stage larvae of the boxwood leafminer, Monarthropalpusi flavus. It literally sounds like the snap, crackle and pop of a bowl of rice cereal.
Continue reading...April 5, 2013 Administrator
Commercial Grower Blueberry Meetings
From The Blueberry Bulletin April 3, 2013 Upcoming Twilight Meetings Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Variety Farms 548 Pleasant Mills Rd. Hammonton, NJ 08037 Thursday, May 30, 2013 @ 5:30 Atlantic Blueberry Co. 7201 Weymouth Rd., Hammonton, NJ For Directions, Call 609-561-8600 Blueberry IPM Plum Curculio: One adult was seen in a beating tray sample, indicating […]
Continue reading...April 2, 2013 Ann Gould
Needles may fall…
Now is the time to monitor for two common diseases of Douglas fir: Rhabdocline needlecast (caused by the fungus Rhabdocline pseudotsugae) and Swiss needlecast (caused by the fungus Phaeocryptopus gäumannii). Rhabdocline needlecast is well established in New Jersey Christmas tree plantations, and Swiss needlecast has become more common. The discriminating grower wants to know, “what’s […]
Continue reading...April 2, 2013 Richard Buckley
Hold on to Your Needles!
As the weather warms, Christmas tree growers and nursery folks are beginning to get back into their fields to select trees for digging or to assess field conditions. Recent samples in the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory suggest it would be prudent to keep an eye out for disease symptoms and signs that would have appeared or […]
Continue reading...April 1, 2013 Brad Majek
Perennial Weed Control Using Cultural/Mechanical Techniques
Most annual and perennial weeds reproduce from seed, but many perennials also reproduce vegetatively. Examples of vegetative reproductive parts of weeds include stolens, rhizomes, roots, tubers, bulbs, and nutlets. Bermudagrass has stolens, which are above ground horizontal stems. Quackgrass spreads by rhizomes, which are underground horizontal stems. Canada thistle, milkweed, hemp dogbane, horsenettle, and bindweed […]
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