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 […]
Continue reading...April 24, 2023 Megan Muehlbauer
2023/2024 New Jersey Tree Fruit Production Guides are Available (Print Version)
April 18, 2023 Meredith Melendez
Your Input Needed on Preharvest Water use in Produce
Do you irrigate produce? Have questions about Subpart E or agricultural water? The On-Farm Food Safety Team is involved in a national survey to find out: Does the produce industry understand the rule? What areas of the rule are still unclear to the industry. How preharvest water is used and treated on farms across the […]
Continue reading...April 17, 2023 Tim Waller
Spotted lanternfly (SLF) hatch is ON in Southern and Central NJ – ALL New Jersey COUNTIES are now QUARANTINED
Spotted Lanternfly nymphs will be emerging now through the first week of May for Southern and Central New Jersey – reduce their population early in the nursery industry! Two important notes: Through conversations with nursery operators, state inspectors (NJDOA), and internal agent communications SLF hatch has begun, which indicates a critical time to knock down […]
Continue reading...April 17, 2023 Dave Schmitt and Kaitlin Quinn
Tree Fruit IPM Report for April 18, 2023
Tree Fruit Phenology: Tree Fruit Phenology remains advanced in peach, but development is slowing. In southern counties all peach orchards are late bloom to petal fall. Redhaven was at approximately full bloom on April 4. Plums are at shuck off. Pears are at petal fall. Red Delicious is just past full bloom. Sweet cherries are […]
Continue reading...April 13, 2023 Steven K. Rettke
Landscape Pest Notes for April 2023
Cool, Moist Springs, Aphids, and Lady Beetles: A cool, moist spring will be good for lady beetles, and other predators feeding on aphids. A single lady beetle larva will eat between 200-300 aphids before becoming an adult. As adults, females eat up to 500 aphids before laying eggs! Before applying any treatment sprays against aphids, […]
Continue reading...April 13, 2023 Pat Hastings
EPA Establishes First Pesticide Tolerance for Hemp
[EPA Pesticide Update posted April 13, 2023]. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established the first pesticide tolerance for hemp. This tolerance is for the pesticide ethalfluralin. After a robust human health risk assessment, on… Read More »
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