For Commercial Vegetable Growers
Date: Tuesday, August 20, at 5:30 pm
Location: RAREC
121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ (Upper Deerfield)
- Investigator Presentations and Research Plot Tours
- Bring your plant insect, disease, or weed samples for identification
- Pesticide recertification credits
Field Tours
Basil Downy Mildew Trials
- Variety tolerance trial
- Fungicide trial
- Advanced breeding line screening study
Cucurbit Study
- Andy Wyenandt discusses his powdery and downy mildew fungicide screening study.
Pepper Phytophthora Studies
- Andy Wyenandt continues to evaluate new breeding material and varieties for tolerance and chemical controls for Phytophthora. You will be able to view these plots.
Pepper Anthracnose Studies
- This is becoming a serious disease in New Jersey. Andy Wyenandt will discuss the results from this year’s studies.
Fresh Market Tomato Breeding Studies
- Tom Orton continues to work on the project to develop tomato varieties for early production under New Jersey conditions. Some of the early results will be demonstrated.
Bell Pepper Variety Trials
- Twenty-eight commercial varieties are in this year’s trial. These are all varieties available on the market. – Wes Kline, Cumberland County
Fig Production: Comparing high tunnel and outside production
- Maurice Sheets, Woodland Produce, had a Sustainable Agricultural Research and Extension Grant to study fig production in high tunnels. He will report his results.
