High Tunnel Cover Crop Evaluation
Four cover crops will be evaluated in High Tunnels at RAREC this Fall. The high tunnels are currently housing grafted tomatoes. Once the tomato crop is removed, Ag Agent Meredith Melendez will be...
View ArticleSeed Heat-Treatment: A Management Strategy for Controlling Bacterial Diseases
Seed heat-treatment is one cultural practice that prevents infected seed from resulting in losses to bacterial disease in the field. Bacterial canker, caused by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp....
View ArticleFarm Calls: A Grower Questions Why Hydroponics are Excluded from Organic...
This Farm Call comes from Rutgers SEBS Dean, Robert Goodman – yes, even Deans get calls from growers. A New Jersey grower, who raises crops hydroponically, asks, “Why can’t I get my greens and herbs...
View ArticleSustainable Ag Marketing: Four Resources on Engaging Food Bloggers
Page 1 of 3 Engaging food bloggers to write about your products, services, farm and market, has become a cost effective and efficient marketing tool to create an online presence without having to...
View ArticleNEWA Pest Forecasting Further Refines Grower Intuition
Implementing new technology, the results of applied research, is one reason American agriculture has been so successful. Innovation is an important component of sustaining farming on our urban fringe....
View ArticleAerated Bin Composting Demo Photo Gallery
Construction The concrete work in this installation illustrates desired floor construction method. The floor forms leave the center open (with a ledge for 2” x 6” lumber floorboards). This uses far...
View ArticleWanted: Composted Manure Linking Compost Producers with NJ Farm Needs
You may be one of New Jersey’s 7,200 horse owners without enough surrounding cropland to benefit from applying all your equine manure and stall wastes to your own land. The 2012 NJ requirement for...
View ArticleFarm Calls: Raised Bed Mulch Layers for High Tunnels
This week a small-farm grower contacted us. “We own high tunnels and needed information about making beds. Searching the web we found your Rutgers High Tunnels Construction website. It is a great site....
View ArticleRoller Crimper Tips for NJ Growers
Roller Crimpers offer superior benefits with reduced inputs to vegetable growers who use them along with herbicides, producing better quality main season crops such as pumpkin, winter squash, and...
View ArticleFarm Calls: Tillage Tools for “Breaking Ground”
A young farmer in North Jersey gave a call this season to ask if we could swing by a take a look at some land he wanted to bring into production. We arrived to find a worst-case scenario: an old...
View ArticleMobile Market Cooler Conversion Demonstration
Scaleable for small and mid-sized farm operations, portable farm market-type display units have dual benefits of big visual impact with quality enhancing cooling, extending fresh fruit and vegetable...
View ArticleBackpack Sprayer Technology Workshop
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017 | 9AM to Noon Location: 2017 NJ Agricultural Convention & Trade Show Harrah’s Resort hotel Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ Wildwood Rooms 4 & 5 Speakers:...
View ArticleFarm Calls: A Grower Questions Why Hydroponics are Excluded from Organic...
This Farm Call comes from Rutgers SEBS Dean, Robert Goodman – yes, even Deans get calls from growers. A New Jersey grower, who raises crops hydroponically, asks, “Why can’t I get my greens and herbs...
View ArticleSustainable Ag Marketing: Four Resources on Engaging Food Bloggers
Page 1 of 3 Engaging food bloggers to write about your products, services, farm and market, has become a cost effective and efficient marketing tool to create an online presence without having to...
View ArticleNEWA Pest Forecasting Further Refines Grower Intuition
Implementing new technology, the results of applied research, is one reason American agriculture has been so successful. Innovation is an important component of sustaining farming on our urban fringe....
View ArticleAerated Bin Composting Demo Photo Gallery
Construction The concrete work in this installation illustrates desired floor construction method. The floor forms leave the center open (with a ledge for 2” x 6” lumber floorboards). This uses far...
View ArticleWanted: Composted Manure Linking Compost Producers with NJ Farm Needs
You may be one of New Jersey’s 7,200 horse owners without enough surrounding cropland to benefit from applying all your equine manure and stall wastes to your own land. The 2012 NJ requirement for...
View ArticleFarm Calls: Raised Bed Mulch Layers for High Tunnels
This week a small-farm grower contacted us. “We own high tunnels and needed information about making beds. Searching the web we found your Rutgers High Tunnels Construction website. It is a great site....
View ArticleRoller Crimper Tips for NJ Growers
Roller Crimpers offer superior benefits with reduced inputs to vegetable growers who use them along with herbicides, producing better quality main season crops such as pumpkin, winter squash, and...
View ArticleFarm Calls: Tillage Tools for “Breaking Ground”
A young farmer in North Jersey gave a call this season to ask if we could swing by a take a look at some land he wanted to bring into production. We arrived to find a worst-case scenario: an old...
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