Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015, 5:30 p.m.
Location: Meet at the trailer near parking lot
Rutgers Agricultural Research & Extension Center
121 Northville Road, Bridgeton, NJ (Upper Deerfield)
Agenda
- 5:30: Taste the new tomato breeding lines that will be released soon and tour the tomato plots
Tom Orton, PhD, Specialist in Vegetables
Check out a mobile market/portable cooler trailer with CoolBot™’s alternative to high cost refrigeration units
Rick VanVranken, Agricultural Agent Atlantic County - 6:00: *Summer/Winter Squash and Cucumber fungicide evaluations for Downy and Powdery Mildew Control
C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD, Specialist in Vegetable Pathology - 6:30: Advances in breeding lines and fungicide evaluation for basil Downy Mildew Control
Rob Pyne, Graduate Student, Rutgers and C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD - 7:00: Fungicides for controlling Phytophthora Blight control in cucurbits
C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD - 7:30: Evaluation of Bell Peppers cultivars and breeding lines for Phytophthora tolerance
C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD - 8:00: *Slicing and pickling cucumber variety evaluation for yield and Downy Mildew tolerance
Wes Kline, PhD, Agricultural Agent - 8:30: Phomopsis Blight control in eggplant
C. Andrew Wyenandt, PhD
*The cucurbit studies are funded in part through the Charles E. and Lena Maier Fund, the Vegetable Growers Association of New Jersey and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
