The points of contact between Rutgers Cooperative Extension Service and the grower & business communities are the NJ County Agricultural Agents. The agents are a tremendous source of information for both new and experienced growers. Visit your local county extension office. The county agents with more extensive knowledge in fruit growing are listed below.
Gary Pavlis
Cooperative Extension of Atlantic County
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
6260 Old Harding Highway
Mays Landing, NJ 08330-1533
Phone: 609-625-0056
Fax: 609-625-3646
Email: pavlis@njaes.rutgers.edu
Peter Nitzsche
Cooperative Extension of Morris County
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
P. O. Box 900
Morristown, NJ 07963-0900
Phone: 973-285-8300 ext. 226
Fax: 973-605-8195
Email: nitzsche@njaes.rutgers.edu
Win Cowgill
Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
6 Gauntt Pl.
P. O. Box 2900
Flemington, NJ 08822-2900
Phone: 908-788-1339
Fax: 908-806-4735
Email: cowgill@njaes.rutgers.edu
William Sciarappa
Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
4000 Kozloski Rd.
Freehold, NJ 07728-5033
Phone: 732-431-7278
Fax: 732-409-4813
Email: sciarappa@njaes.rutgers.edu
Rutgers NJAES Fruit Integrated Pest Management Program
Mission
The Fruit Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program is an educational delivery program for commercial fruit growers in New Jersey. IPM brings together all management techniques to manage pest populations below economically damaging levels. IPM includes many aspects of crop management, and may also be called integrated crop management or ICM.
Objectives of the Fruit IPM Program
The Fruit Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program is an educational delivery program for commercial fruit growers in New Jersey. IPM brings together all management techniques to manage pest populations below economically damaging levels. IPM includes many aspects of crop management, and may also be called integrated crop management or ICM.
Objectives of the Fruit IPM Program
- Help fruit growers produce top quality crops, limiting or reducing production costs.
- Educate growers, field scouts, industry workers, and others interested in fruit IPM practices.
- Bring together all pest and crop management practices into a set of commercially used methods. These include the use of: pesticides, economic threshold levels, pest phenology models, resistant varieties, optimum horticultural practices, weather monitoring, pest scouting, and fertility monitoring and recommendations.
- Conduct research/demonstration programs that further the adoption of IPM methods.
Fire Blight Alert for Apple and Pear and Time for First Apogee for Shoot Blight Phase of Fireblight
Also do not forget that the next rain event will probably be a scab event as we have not had a good event in North Jersey yet.
by Mike Fargione, Cornell with Win Cowgill, Rutgers/NJAES
by Mike Fargione, Cornell with Win Cowgill, Rutgers/NJAES
Fire blight Control on Newly Planted Apple Trees
Resistant fire-blight has previously been found in CA, OR, WA, MO, MI and Western NY.
Source- Dr. Rosenberger, Extension Plant Pathologist, via Mike Fargione,
Extension Educator, Cornell- Tree Fruit Grower Alert Message 4/30
Edits for NJ by Win Cowgill
Source- Dr. Rosenberger, Extension Plant Pathologist, via Mike Fargione,
Extension Educator, Cornell- Tree Fruit Grower Alert Message 4/30
Edits for NJ by Win Cowgill
Spray Cherry Trees for Bacterial Canker
Win Cowgill, Professor and Area Fruit Agent
Bacterial Canker continues to be a serious bacterial disease of both sweet and tart cherry in New Jersey as well as all other regions where the climate is humid. Bacterial canker or bacterial gummosis of sweet cherry is caused by several Pseudomonas bacterium.
This disease infects flower buds and spurs.
Bacterial Canker continues to be a serious bacterial disease of both sweet and tart cherry in New Jersey as well as all other regions where the climate is humid. Bacterial canker or bacterial gummosis of sweet cherry is caused by several Pseudomonas bacterium.
This disease infects flower buds and spurs.
Are You Using our NEWA Website for Apple Scab Forecasting?
Win Cowgill
Professor and Area Fruit Agent
Are you using our new Cornell NEWA http://newa.cornell.edu/ scab prediction system? Rutgers Cooperative Extension has been a partner with Cornell for the past two years to bring this weather system with disease forecasting to you. NEWA Apple Disease Models
Note: Adequate hours of wetting have occurred for apple scab infections to occur.
Professor and Area Fruit Agent
Are you using our new Cornell NEWA http://newa.cornell.edu/ scab prediction system? Rutgers Cooperative Extension has been a partner with Cornell for the past two years to bring this weather system with disease forecasting to you. NEWA Apple Disease Models
Note: Adequate hours of wetting have occurred for apple scab infections to occur.
Reminder- 1st North Jersey Twilight Fruit Meeting- this Tuesday, April 09, 2013
The First North Jersey Twilight Fruit Meeting is this Tuesday- April 09, 2013 at Rutgers Snyder Farm- Pesticide Credits will be awarded.
Please Pre-Register so we have a head count-
Please Pre-Register so we have a head count-
New Rutgers Fruit Manuals Are Complete
Win Cowgill, Professor and Area Fruit Agent.
The 2013 New Jersey Tree Fruit Production Guide and the 2013
NJ Commercial Grape Pest Control Recommendations are now Available
The 2013 New Jersey Tree Fruit Production Guide and the 2013
NJ Commercial Grape Pest Control Recommendations are now Available
Cold Weather and Fruit Development
Cold still grips North Jersey with 24F forecast tonight and 23F for Wednesday night followed by a slight warming trend.
The question is when will spring get here or rater when will green tip arrive on apple.
The question is when will spring get here or rater when will green tip arrive on apple.
First Apple Scab Spray
First Scab Spray
(Re-printed from Mike Fargione's Tree Fruit Grower Alert Message - Tuesday, April 2, 2013)
The first scab spray should include a protectant fungicide
such as mancozeb, captan, copper, or sulfur (if you are growing apples
under organic protocol).
1st North Jersey Twilight Fruit Meeting- April 09, 2013
1st North Jersey Twilight Fruit Meeting- April 09, 2013
Location: Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm
140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867
Hazelnuts: An Emerging Crop for the Northeast
Excepted from Horticultural News Spring, 2013
Hazelnuts are small to large deciduous shrubs native to temperate regions of Europe, North America, and Asia. The European species, Corylus avellana, has the largest
nuts and is grown commercially in production orchards in Oregon, where it is pruned to grow as a single-trunk tree.
First North Jersey Twilight Fruit Meeting
Tuesday, April 9, 2013- Hold the date. The First Twilight Fruit Meeting and Pest Update will be held at Rutgers Sndyer Farm from 6:00-9:00pm
Highlights from IFTA
This week our friend Jon Clements, Extension Educator UMass-Amherst, reports on the 56th Annual IFTA Conference held February 23 - March 2 in Boston. His insights on the workshops and tours make for a good read.
Jon writes...
First, on Saturday, February 23 were two Pre-Conference Intensive Workshops. Altogether, there were about 200 attendees split between "Strategies for Improving Production Practices" and "Managing Pick Your Own Tree Fruit Operations."
...in the "Strategies" session Equilifruit disks were passed out and explained how to use by James Schupp of Penn State, and I won't forget Tom Chudleigh's comment in the "Managing" Workshop: "It's easier to increase revenue $10,000 than decrease expenses $1,000!"
Read more...
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| Win Cowgil @ IFTA |
Jon writes...
First, on Saturday, February 23 were two Pre-Conference Intensive Workshops. Altogether, there were about 200 attendees split between "Strategies for Improving Production Practices" and "Managing Pick Your Own Tree Fruit Operations."
...in the "Strategies" session Equilifruit disks were passed out and explained how to use by James Schupp of Penn State, and I won't forget Tom Chudleigh's comment in the "Managing" Workshop: "It's easier to increase revenue $10,000 than decrease expenses $1,000!"
Read more...
Last Call for North Jersey
-Win Cowgill
The North Jersey Commercial Fruit Growers Meeting will be held Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at the Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm (Hunterdon County) 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Address: 140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867
Contact Diana Boesch at 908-788-1339 to reserve you spot and lunch.
Pre registration required for program and luncheon, Deadline Friday, March 1, 2013.
The North Jersey Commercial Fruit Growers Meeting will be held Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at the Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm (Hunterdon County) 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Address: 140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867
Contact Diana Boesch at 908-788-1339 to reserve you spot and lunch.
Pre registration required for program and luncheon, Deadline Friday, March 1, 2013.
North Jersey Commercial Fruit Growers Meeting
-Win Cowgill
The North Jersey Commercial Fruit Growers Meeting will be held Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at the Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm (Hunterdon County) 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Address: 140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867
Contact Diana Boesch at 908-788-1339 to reserve you spot and lunch.
Pre registration required for program and luncheon, Deadline Friday, March 1, 2013.
The North Jersey Commercial Fruit Growers Meeting will be held Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at the Rutgers Snyder Research and Extension Farm (Hunterdon County) 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Address: 140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867
Contact Diana Boesch at 908-788-1339 to reserve you spot and lunch.
Pre registration required for program and luncheon, Deadline Friday, March 1, 2013.
Changes in the Email Delivery System
Before the season begins, we are experimenting with a new email delivery system for the Fruit Ag Updates and Plant & Pest Advisory Fruit Edition. This means subscribers may receive some test mailings or duplicate emails. Thank you for your patience in advance.
-Webmaster
-Webmaster
Blueberry Food Safety Training February 20, 2013
-Wes Kline
Blueberry Food Safety Training will be held on February 20th at the Marucci Center for Blueberry & Cranberry Research and Extension,
Location: 125A Lake Oswego Rd., Chatsworth, NJ.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
$25 fee includes lunch. To register call 609-726-1590
Blueberry Food Safety Training will be held on February 20th at the Marucci Center for Blueberry & Cranberry Research and Extension,
Location: 125A Lake Oswego Rd., Chatsworth, NJ.
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
$25 fee includes lunch. To register call 609-726-1590
North Jersey Tree Fruit Meeting
Hold the Date March 5, 2013
Location: Rutgers Snyder Farm
140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867
Time- 8:30- 4:00
Program to follow
Location: Rutgers Snyder Farm
140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ 08867
Time- 8:30- 4:00
Program to follow
This Week’s Weather and Orchard Pruning
Michael J. Fargione
Extension Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County-
Reprinted from the Cornell Tree Fruit Grower Alert Message of 1/28/13
With Edits from Win Cowgill for NJ
The significant cold of the last week should have helped trees develop some additional cold-hardiness in NY and Northern New Jersey. However, daytime temperatures are expected to reach the upper 40’s on Tuesday and close to 60F on Wednesday. This begins to deharden the trees.
Unfortunately, we will then drop back to very cold weather with low temperatures in the low 20’s on Thursday and in the teens on Friday through the weekend. Given these predictions, trees pruned on Tuesday-Thursday might be more susceptible to cold injury. You might want to suspend pruning Tuesday-Thursday, particularly in younger and/or more valuable blocks. Prune only the older mature apples.
We are forecast for heavy rain on Wednesday, which could make pruning quite unpleasant anyway.
Growers should be at our Tri State Fruit meeting in Hershey, PA this week anyway :-)
Its not too late to come out to the largest trade show on the east coast if even for the day.
Extension Educator, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County-
Reprinted from the Cornell Tree Fruit Grower Alert Message of 1/28/13
With Edits from Win Cowgill for NJ
The significant cold of the last week should have helped trees develop some additional cold-hardiness in NY and Northern New Jersey. However, daytime temperatures are expected to reach the upper 40’s on Tuesday and close to 60F on Wednesday. This begins to deharden the trees.
Unfortunately, we will then drop back to very cold weather with low temperatures in the low 20’s on Thursday and in the teens on Friday through the weekend. Given these predictions, trees pruned on Tuesday-Thursday might be more susceptible to cold injury. You might want to suspend pruning Tuesday-Thursday, particularly in younger and/or more valuable blocks. Prune only the older mature apples.
We are forecast for heavy rain on Wednesday, which could make pruning quite unpleasant anyway.
Growers should be at our Tri State Fruit meeting in Hershey, PA this week anyway :-)
Its not too late to come out to the largest trade show on the east coast if even for the day.
Pruning Vertical Axis 2013
Steve A. Hoying, Cornell Hudson Valley Lab (written1-10-13)
With the consistently colder weather we can now start on established plantings and more sensitive varieties.
With the consistently colder weather we can now start on established plantings and more sensitive varieties.
Agritourism Risk Management Workshop
Rutgers NJAES Agritourism Working Group presents:
Agritourism Risk Management Workshop
Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
Location: Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension
of Burlington County
2 Academy Dr., Westampton, NJ
This workshop is being offered to go over some of the risk management issues that may come up on the farm when agritourism marketing is offered.
Date: Monday, February 25, 2013
Location: Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension
of Burlington County
2 Academy Dr., Westampton, NJ
This Week in the Plant & Pest Advisory: 1-9-2013
Plant & Pest Advisory - Fruit Edition (printable pdf)
- Thoughts on Apple Tree Training and Pruning
- Appletesters.net
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