This Thursday – Box Tree Moth (BTM) Compliance Agreement Training + Rutgers RAREC Nursery Twilight

Free – This Thursday!

 

Box Tree Moth (BTM) Compliance Agreement Training + Rutgers RAREC Nursery Twilight 9/17/2026 

Nursery & Ornamentals Twilight Meeting

Collaboratively held by RCE, NJNLA, & NJDA

Location: Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center (RAREC)

121 Northville Rd., Bridgeton, NJ  08302-5919

Registration is required – Click here to register (select Guest if not a NJNLA member)

 

3:00PM to 4:00PM: 

Meeting: Box Tree Moth Compliance Agreement Training – Collaboratively held by RCE, NJNLA, and NJDA.

Please join if you grow, manage, or transport boxwoods. This official NJDA training satisfies the first mandatory requirement to be in compliance if the quarantine expands.

Approved Credits: 2 each of PP2, 2-3A, 2-9, Certificate of Completion

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4:00PM to 7:30PM:

Meeting: Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center (RAREC) – Nursery & Ornamentals Twilight

Collaboratively held by RCE & NJNLA

4:00 pm – Arrival / Networking / Vendors / Look at plots

4:30 pm – Dinner (BBQ Boyz) / Networking / Vendors

5:30 pm – Presentation (1hr): Ornamental IPM Implementation (Waller & Errickson)

6:30 pm – Presentation (1hr): CORE SAFETY UPDATES (Presenter TBD)

7:30PM – Adjourn and signing for credits

Approved Credits: 2 each of CORE, PP2, 2, 3A, 3C, 8C, 10

 

Registration is required – Click here to register (select Guest if not a NJNLA member)

Nursery & Ornamentals Twilight Meeting Collaboratively held by RCE and NJNLA Location: Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center (RAREC) 121 Northville Rd., Bridgeton, NJ 08302-5919 3:00PM to 4:00PM: Meeting: Box Tree Moth Compliance Agreement Training - Collaboratively held by RCE, NJNLA, and NJDA. Please join if you grow, manage, or transport boxwoods. This official NJDA training satisfies the first mandatory requirement to be in compliance if the quarantine expands. Anticipated credits: 2-PP2, 2-3A, 2-9, Certificate of Completion _______________________________ 4:00PM to 7:30PM: Meeting: Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center (RAREC) – Nursery & Ornamentals Twilight Collaboratively held by RCE & NJNLA 4:00 pm – Arrival / Networking / Vendors / Look at plots 4:30 pm - Dinner (BBQ Boyz) / Networking / Vendors 5:30 pm – Presentation (1hr): (Outside) Ornamental IPM Implementation (Waller & Errickson) 6:30 pm – Presentation (1hr): (Inside) CORE SAFETY UPDATES (Presenter TBD) 7:30PM – Adjourn and signing for credits Anticipated credits: 2-PP2, 2-CORE, 2-3A, 2-2, 2-1A, 2-10

Registration is required – Click here to register (select Guest if not a NJNLA member) 

Save the Dates – Sept. 23 (Final IPM webinar), Oct 7 (POSTPONED), Oct 22 (Core Credit, In-person)

Join us for the Final Ornamental IPM webinar Tuesday 9/23/25 

Still time to Sign up (click here) for the final remaining 2025 session

Topics to be covered:

  1. Beneficial insect: Preying mantids​
  2. Mums   ​
  3. White pine aphid​
  4. Eastern spruce gall adelgid​
  5. Cooley spruce gall adelgid​
  6. Hemlock woolly adelgid​
  7. Spruce spider mite​
  8. Southern red spider mite​
  9. Hemlock rust mite​
  10. Fall practices for sanitation
  11. Importance of fall irrigation in field ​settings​
  12. Using horticultural dormant oil​
  13. Questions to consider regarding​ your nursery IPM monitoring ​program

Please visit our new –Rutgers Ornamental IPM Program Website (click here)


 

More details and registration links to follow in the coming days – once CEUs and collaborators are finalized. NOTE: CEUs have been applied for but those listed below are not guaranteed. Both events are in-person in Cumberland County, NJ.