Food Safety Modernization Act – here is some information on new FDA water rules for water used for growing and packing produce and values for pathogens in water and the questions and how FDA answers them including: What changes are required for water What uses are not exempt anymore Which water sources have to be […]
Continue reading...April 11, 2013 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Update: 4/11/2013
Asparagus: Phytophthora crown and spear rot Cabbage: Damping-off Cole crops: Downy Mildew and Alternaria Leeks (overwintered, spring transplanted): Purple blotch Lettuce: Bottom Rot/Drop Parsley: Septoria Blight/Bacterial (blight) leaf spot Strawberry: Anthracnose fruit rot; Botrytis (Gray Mold) and Blossom blight
Continue reading...April 10, 2013 Dave Schmitt
Tree Fruit IPM Report: week ending 4/6/2013
April 9, 2013 Administrator
Crop Insurance Update
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 […]
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