March 1, 2023: Advanced Audits Online Training from 9:00-12:00 This online program offers growers a deeper dive into audit standards and on-farm food safety issues they face on their farms. Current hot topics in food safety will be discussed as well as how to foster a food safety culture on your farm, updates to the […]
Continue reading...February 24, 2023 Melissa Bravo
December Prices Received by Farmers Data
The ‘December Prices Received by Farmers’ section of the USDA NASS Agriculture Prices publication contains useful price-margins-costs of production forecasting information for producers. The report highlights prices received by farmers for principal crops, livestock and livestock products; indexes of prices received by farmers; feed price ratios; indexes of prices paid by farmers; and parity prices. […]
Continue reading...February 23, 2023 Andy Wyenandt
‘Fields of Devotion’ screening in New Brunswick, 2-4pm on March 3rd
When climate change-induced diseases wipe out farmers’ fields, growers turn to scientists for help. Fields of Devotion, a 30-minute science-in-action film, follows the decade-long partnership between Rutgers plant biologists, the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES), and New Jersey small family farmers as they work together to develop resilient basil crops. A story of hard work, […]
Continue reading...February 22, 2023 Stephanie Murphy
Rutgers Soil Testing Laboratory adds Sulfur to Soil Fertility Analysis
Plant-available sulfur (sulfate) values have been added to Rutgers Soil Testing Laboratory fertility reports in the micronutrient reporting line. There are four interpretive categories: Low, Medium-low, Sufficient, and High. An explanatory paragraph follows near the end of the report to help interpret the reported value. As the interpretative statements within the reports explain, sulfur analysis/interpretation […]
Continue reading...February 22, 2023 Melissa Bravo
Help PA stop Hipath Avian Influenza spread. Sanitize vehicle tires, boots.
With increasing numbers of positive flock detections in Lancaster County, PA, and circulation of the virus in wild birds, please remember to wash farm truck vehicle tires and implement footwear-vehicle-pedal sanitation steps when driving to/from the feed mills, seed stores, and farm machinery dealers located in this region of Pennsylvania. Map current as of 2-22-2023. […]
Continue reading...February 20, 2023 Jim Murphy
Mild winter, what does it mean for overseeding of turf or dormant seeding?
Typically, turf management isn’t on top of the to-do list in mid-February. But winter in New Jersey isn’t typical typical this year. The statewide average temperature in January 2023 was 41.0°, which was 9.3° above the 1991–2020 normal and ties with 19… Read More »
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