The Vegetable Working Group teams up with Cornell University's Network for Environment and Weather Applications (NEWA) to bring disease and insect forecasting to vegetable growers throughout New Jersey

The vegetable working group has teamed up with Cornell University's NEWA to bring tomato and potato late blight and early blight forecasting to vegetable growers throughout New Jersey. Over 30 weather stations from Sussex to Cape May County now offer disease as well as insect forecasting services for 19 specific pests. The website managed by the New York state Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program can be found at http://newa.cornell.edu/.  Just click on the map and scroll down to New Jersey and chose a weather station within the closest proximity to your operation. Once you choose a location a new webpage will appear with the different forecasting options to choose from. Clicking on the potato early blight will automatically generate daily and accumulative P-day values for you for that location. Remember once 300 P-days are accumulated, spray programs for early blight control should be initiated. Clicking on either tomato or potato Late blight will bring up a table which will provide daily rainfall, average temperature, hours above 90% RH and daily and accumulative DSV values for that location. One important thing to remember for the disease forecasting is to track the accumulation of DSV or P-day values based on when you transplanted tomatoes or when potatoes emerged on your farm.

If you are interested in receiving weekly tomato and/or potato disease forecasting reports from the Rutgers IPM program, please send us your email address in the sign-up box below and we will add your name to our listserv for the 2012 growing season.

The Vegetable Working Group Introduces its New Vegetable Crops Agricultural Update Service for the Vegetable Industry in New Jersey and Surrounding Region

           Rutgers NJAES Vegetable Working Group announces that their new Vegetable Crops Agriculture Update blog at http://jerseyvegcropsagupdates.blogspot.com/ is online and ready for the 2011 season.

           The new Rutgers Vegetable Crops Agriculture Update blog allows you to do just that. Check the site to get our daily observations from the field and around the industry. Subscribe to the daily feed and each morning that there is a new post, headlines will be emailed to you early enough to change plans if necessary. Need more details and the links will take you to the full story.

            The benefit of the information age for your business is having the best available resources at your fingertips to help you plan your day and make decisions. The Rutgers Vegetable Crops Agriculture Update blog will bring you the most up-to-date local observations from your county agricultural agents, state vegetable specialists and our IPM program coordinators.

            Go to http://jerseyvegcropsagupdates.blogspot.com/ now to check out this new resource, and click on the subscribe button in the left column to get the daily feeds.

Event Proceedings (pdf)

• The 2012 Atlantic Coast Agricultural Conference Proceedings
  
• The 2011 Atlantic Coast Agricultural Conference Proceedings
  
• The 2010 Atlantic Coast Agricultural Conference Proceedings
• The 2009 Atlantic Coast Agricultural Conference Proceeding
  

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