Print copies of the 2025/2026 New Jersey Tree Fruit Production Guides are available at your local Cooperative Extension Offices for $25 per copy. The guides are also available for FREE online. E002: 2025/2026 New Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Production Guide If you have any trouble obtaining a guide from your local office please contact: Kim Crommelin: […]
Continue reading...April 21, 2025 Megan Muehlbauer and Janine Spies
2025/2026 New Jersey Commercial Tree Fruit Production Guides are Available (Print and Electronic)
April 21, 2025 Megan Muehlbauer
North Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight Meeting I
North Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight Meeting I In collaboration with the New Jersey Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association May 1, 2025 4:30 PM-7:30 PM VonThun Farms 438 Route 57 West Washington, NJ 07882 4:15 PM – Registration 4:30 PM – Strategies to Reduce Pesticide Exposure in Applicators Kate Brown, Agricultural Agent III, Rutgers NJAES […]
Continue reading...Ornamental IPM 4/8 Recording Upload – Next session Tuesday 4/22
Ornamental IPM – next session is Tuesday 4/22/25 Sign up here for the NEW 2025 – Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program. Click here for a PDF of April 08, 2025 webinar that can be printed and used as a field guide or similar Click here for a VIDEO recording of April 08, 2025 webinar Next […]
Continue reading...Tree Fruit IPM Report April 11, 2025
Tree Fruit Phenology: Tree fruit phenology remains advanced in southern counties based on historical observations. In southern counties most varieties are nearing full bloom. PF-17 which tracks closely with Redhaven was at 90% bloom on April 8, about days earlier than the median observation date. Red Delicious was at Tight Cluster on March 30, about […]
Continue reading...April 8, 2025 Tess Stahl
Reminder of HPAI Information for Backyard Flock Poultry Owners
As HPAI continues to spread across the United States, poultry owners are urged to review their biosecurity practices and remain on alert for clinical signs of HPAI in their flock. Multi-species operations, particularly those with both poultry and ruminants on-site, are encouraged to mitigate areas in which the spread of disease between species may be […]
Continue reading...April 5, 2025 Hemant Gohil
High Risk of Frost Damage in Peach Orchards
The below-freezing temperatures on Tuesday (4/8) and Wednesday (8/9) will likely invite frost damage to peach orchards in New Jersey. In several parts of New Jersey, peach flower buds are in the bud swell to the petal fall stage. Bloom progression in southern New Jersey indicates that except for very few delayed blooming varieties such as […]
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