Please note: The Rutgers Nursery and Green Industry Working Group is working to deliver regular pest and disease updates throughout the season. These will be in addition to important alerts, critical topics, and pesticide credit opportunities. This tool is made for you, the commercial agriculture business, so please let us know if there are particular […]
Continue reading...April 26, 2023 Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Early Season Pests of Cranberries, 2023
By now the winter flood is off from most New Jersey cranberry beds. Once the water is removed, the vines will start to initiate bud break. From now until bloom, growers should scout their beds using sweep net sampling for lepidopteran pests (spongy (=gypsy) moth, blackheaded fireworm, spotted fireworm, Sparganothis fruitworm, and cranberry blossomworm), and […]
Continue reading...April 26, 2023 Dave Schmitt and Kaitlin Quinn
Tree Fruit IPM Report for April 27, 2023
Tree Fruit Phenology: Tree Fruit Phenology remains advanced in peach. In southern counties all peach orchards are shuck split to shuck off. Redhaven was at approximately full bloom on April 4. Red Delicious is at 90% petal fall. Sweet cherries are at about petal fall to shuck split depending on variety. Peach: Bacterial Spot: Generally […]
Continue reading...April 25, 2023 Megan Muehlbauer
SAVE THE DATES! North Jersey Tree Fruit Twilight Meetings
SAVE THE DATES! North Jersey Tree Fruit and Vegetable Twilight Meeting May 3, 2023 Melicks Town Farm 19 King Street Oldwick, New Jersey 08858 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM & North Jersey Tree Fruit and Vegetable Twilight Meeting June 7, 2023 Terhune Orchards 330 Cold Soil Road Princeton, New Jersey 08540 5:00 PM – 7:00 […]
Continue reading...April 24, 2023 Hemant Gohil
South Jersey Wine Grape Twilight Meeting
May 11 (Thu) 4:15 pm Auburn Road Vineyards and Winery 117 Sharptown-Auburn Rd, Pilesgrove, NJ 08098 Pesticide Credits Approved: CORE (1); PP2 (5); 1A (5); 10 (4) 4:30 pm Welcome Remarks and Updates and Social Bird Management – Demonstrations and Interactive session on challenges and successes in bird control Aaron T. Guikema, State Director, […]
Continue reading...April 24, 2023 Megan Muehlbauer
2023/2024 New Jersey Tree Fruit Production Guides are Available (Print Version)
Print copies of the 2023/2024 New Jersey Tree Fruit Production Guides are available at your local Cooperative Extension Offices for $25 per copy. The guides will soon be available for FREE online. Once they are available online the announcement will be made on the Rutgers Plant and Pest Advisory. If you have any trouble obtaining […]
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