
Agritourism Marketing Survey
WVU Extension and other colleagues are trying to understand how we can better help you with your Agritourism Marketing. It will tremendously help us to help you in the future. Please take a few minutes (at most 5 minutes) to answer the questions here: https://s.uconn.edu/agritourism-marketing
Continue reading...Fruit IPM Report June 11, 2025

Peach: Bacterial Spot: Fruit symptoms are very low and only in highly susceptible varieties. Growers should continue to manage using Oxytetracycline and lower rates of copper, especially around rainy periods and severe weather. Fruit will become less susceptible to infection at pit hardening which is occurring now. Rusty Spot: Rusty spot infections are appearing on […]
Continue reading...Basil downy mildew samples wanted by Rutgers!
Calling all commercial basil growers, researchers, home gardeners, and basil enthusiasts! Our team at Rutgers University, UMass Amherst, Bar-Ilan University, and University of Florida are asking for your help! Basil production is still threatened by the devastating Basil Downy Mildew disease and current methods of prevention and resistance are wavering. It appears that the pathogen […]
Continue reading...Vegetable IPM Update 6/5/25

Greetings from the Veg IPM team! Sweet Corn With the hot weather, we’re starting to see sweet corn really coming along. Some plantings of sweet corn are silking (especially in the south), so it’s time to think about corn earworm management. Moth captures in the Southern part of the state (see map) are indicating that […]
Continue reading...Bagworms + PEST ALERTS (SCALE crawlers) + Ornamental IPM 5/27 Recording Upload

Bagworms should begin hatching NOW through – 4 weeks in NJ, beginning in the southern regions. Now is an optimal time to get this pest on your radar and prepare materials or approaches to attack first/second instar caterpillars. The control window for this pest is typically between 600-900 GDD50 when they begin to hatch and become airborne, i.e. the “ballooning” […]
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