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It’s Never too Early to be Thinking about Corn Earworm Free Webinar on CEW Management
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Plant & Pest Advisory – January 16, 2026 – Maria Cramer The corn earworm traps from the Vegetable IPM program may be stored away for the winter, but thevegetable IPM team is always thinking about CEW management. We want to bring sweet corn producers’ attention to a free webinar put on by a regional team […]
Identifying and Controlling Pathogens in Transplant Production in 2026
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Plant & Pest Advisory – January 14, 2026 – Andy Wyenandt It is extremely important to know which pathogen is causing damping-off problems during transplantproduction and which fungicide to properly apply. The key to controlling damping-off is being proactiveinstead of reactive. Damping-off is caused by a number of important vegetable pathogens and is very common […]
Monitoring for RB-Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Transplant Production
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Plant & Pest Advisory – January 14, 2026 – Andy Wyenandt, Maria Creamer, and Amanda Quadrel Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) has caused significant problems for some fresh-market tomato andpepper growers in New Jersey the past few growing seasons. Although not uncommon, economiclosses these past few years have been extensive.TSWV is vectored by various species […]
Fruit and Vegetable Growers Apply for 2025 On-Farm Food Safety Certification Expenses
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Wes Kline, Agricultural Agent Time is running out to apply for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops (FSCSC) program for 2025 which opened Jan. 1, 2025, and runs through Jan. 31, 2026. The program has been expanded to include medium-sized businesses in addition to small businesses. Eligible specialty crop […]
2026 Northeast Agricultural Expo and Education Sessions (New Jersey Agricultural Convention and Vegetable Growers Meeting)
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The name has changed, but there are more sessions and various topic not included in the past. Thepre-expo sessions will be held on Tuesday, January 20th (On-Farm Food Safety Workshop, PesticideSafety Workshop, Integrated Pest Management Workshop on Fruits and Vegetables and a FarmLabor & Regulations Workshop). Wednesday, January 21st the trade show opens along with […]
Fall Vegetable Twilight Meeting
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Plant & Pest Advisory – August 21, 2025 – Kate Brown Fall Vegetable Twilight Meeting (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)Norz Hill Farm & Market, LLC., 120 S Branch Rd, Hillsborough Township, NJ 08844Thursday, September 18, 2025 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm AGENDA4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Welcome, load wagons, wagon ride to field4:15 pm – 4:45 pm […]
Tobacco Streak Virus (TSV) found on Tomato in New Jersey
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Plant & Pest Advisory – July 7, 2025 – Andy Wyenandt Tobacco Streak Virus (TSV) was found on fresh-market tomato this past week insouthern New Jersey. TSV has a host range of close to 200 species, includingcranberry, tobacco, tomato, pepper, asparagus, bean, soybean, mustard, radish,a number of ornamental hosts as well as weeds such as […]
Summer Vegetable Plantings For Fall Harvest
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Note: This article was written by Emmalea Ernest, Extension Fruit & Vegetable Specialist; emmalea@udel.edu at the University of Delaware. She has listed planting dates for Delaware which should be appropriate for South Jersey. The summer weather is just getting rolling but it is time to plan for vegetable plantings that will be harvested in the […]
Thrips Active in Vegetable Crops
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Plant & Pest Advisory – June 18, 2025 – Michelle Infante-Casella With higher temperatures increasing hatch times and spring grains like wheat and rye have dryingdown, thrips may be more prevalent in vegetable crops, especially when small grains are adjacent tovegetable fields. Thrips are very small and often missed if casually looking at a plant […]
Controlling Septoria Leaf Spot and Bacterial Leaf Blight in Parsley
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Plant & Pest Advisory – May 27, 2024 – Andy Wyenandt Septoria leaf spot (SLS) in Parsley can cause significant losses in fields where it has become established.Like other Septoria’s, the leaf spots produced on parsley look much like the leaf spots produced on tomatoes and other crops. Septoria leaf spot overwinters from year to […]
Preparing for Important Fungal Diseases in Asparagus during the Summer
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Plant & Pest Advisory – June 4, 2024 – Andy Wyenandt Asparagus growers should consider scouting their fields regularly during the summer months for foliar disease development. Important pathogens that growers need to scout for on a regular basis include Purple spot, Cercospora, and Rust. These pathogens are easily diagnosed by the characteristic symptoms they […]
Controlling Rhizoctonia Root Rot
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Plant & Pest Advisory – May 27, 2025 – Andy Wyenandt Rhizoctonia root rot has been reported over the past week. Rhizoctonia root rot, caused byRhizoctonia solani, is an important soil-borne fungal pathogen with a very large host range.Thepathogen can survive saprophytically on living or dead plant material (organic matter) oras sclerotia inthe soil (for […]
NEWA Disease and Insect Forecasting System
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Plant & Pest Advisory- May 20, 2024- Andy Wyenandt Since 2011 the vegetable working group has teamed up with Cornell University’s NEWA to bringtomato and potato late blight and early blight forecasting to vegetable growers through out New Jersey.Over 50 weather stations from Sussex to Cape May County now offer disease as well as insectforecasting […]
New Vegetable IPM Program Coordinator Hired
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Maria Cramer, PhD joined Rutgers Cooperative Extension on Monday, March 24 as the SeniorProgram Coordinator for the Vegetable IPM program, supporting central and southern Jerseygrowers. Maria will be stationed in the Monmouth County Office of RCE in Freehold, NJ. Her email ismc3196@njaes.rutgers.edu. Dr. Cramer has extensive education and experience in IPM – rearing and identifying […]