Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County received a $460,170 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture as part of a multimillion federal award… The three-year grant, which is awarded through a program administered by the USDA, is used by the Rutgers extension to educate new and beginning farmers in the state. It teaches them how to grow high-value crops on small acreage… Larry Katz, the director of the extension, was pleased that it is continuing programs like this… “This Rutgers project will provide training and information on how farmers can make more money with less land,” said Jenny Carleo, agricultural agent for the extension.
Archives for October 2015
Rutgers Receives $460,170 USDA Grant to Assist Beginning Farmers in New Jersey
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) of Cape May County received a $460,170 grant by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as part of a multi-million federal award to organizations to develop training and provide resources for beginning farmers and ranchers across the U.S… The three-year grant, awarded through the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program administered by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), will be used by RCE to educate new and beginning farmers in New Jersey on how to grow high value crops on small acreage… “We are so pleased that Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s continuing programs to educate new and beginning farmers in the Garden State has received this important investment from the USDA in food production systems,” said Larry Katz, director of Rutgers Cooperative Extension and senior associate director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, which RCE is a part of.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Garners $460,170 USDA Grant to Assist NJ Beginning Farmers
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE) was awarded a significant grant of $460,170 by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as part of $17 million in new federal funding announced on Oct. 8 to benefit beginning farmers and ranchers across the U.S. The three-year grant to Rutgers, awarded through the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program […]
Cold Snap Hit East During Harvest
Temperatures in the East and Midwest hit the mid-to-low-20s over the weekend, as snow was seen in some areas as well… “I had 26F (Sunday) night. I know some Pennsylvania growers reported colder temperatures,” says Win Cowgill, professor and area fruit agent with Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in New Brunswick. “We’re not sure if there are any long-term effects on apples right now. I had one grower at 21F or 22F on Asian pears. I expect damage there.”… Mary Concklin, visiting associate Extension educator in fruit production and IPM from the University of Connecticut, says grower need to keep an eye on fruit picked after a freeze in short-term storage for early breakdown. She also says fruit harvested after a freeze shouldn’t be sent to controlled atmosphere or long-term storage.
USM’s CONCORDE Deploying Marine Glider to Kick Off Fall Research Campaign
Weather permitting, scientists from Rutgers University will release an autonomous underwater robot in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, Oct. 21 to monitor temperature, salinity, oxygen levels, chlorophyll levels, and sediment concentrations… Because o…
Mark Robson Named Distinguished Service Professor by Rutgers Board of Governors
Mark Robson, (CC’77; GSNB’79, ’88; SPH’95) professor and chair of the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, has been named a Distinguished Service Professor by the Rutgers Board of Governors (BOG). Robson, who was presented with a resolution at the board meeting on Oct. 14 by BOG chair Greg Brown, was recognized for “sustained and […]
Reinventing New Jersey as ‘Garden State’ With Ethnic Crops, Tourism
Craving a taste of his native Liberia 4,500 miles away, maintenance worker Alfred Jones drove just 20 miles from his New Jersey home and waded knee deep into rows of pick-your-own African vegetables at Morris Gbolo’s World Crops Farm… New Jersey’s location is the reason the legislature approved the nickname in the first place in 1954, said Richard VanVranken, a Rutgers agricultural agent… “It was about everything in New Jersey being ripe for the picking for New York and Philadelphia. That drives a lot of what we do, being able to serve the huge markets that we’re right in the middle of,” VanVranken said… Agritourism is now a source of income for one in five farms in New Jersey, which relies more heavily on agritourism than other states, Schilling said. While New Jersey ranks 40th in the U.S. in total farm sales, it is ninth in the nation in terms of agritourism income, he said… To insure a fertile future for the Garden State, Rutgers agricultural agents put to work the results of a 2006 study of Asians and Hispanics on the U.S. East Coast that found they tend to spend more money each month on fresh fruits and vegetables than the national average and that purchasers of ethnic foods put food freshness ahead of price.
Solving the Cassava Crisis in East Africa
Think about all the potato dishes you eat: mashed potatoes with gravy, Hasselback potatoes with chives, french fries on the side. Now imagine if these dishes suddenly became a rarity due to a potato scarcity. This is essentially what’s happening in som…
Reinventing New Jersey as ‘Garden State’ With Ethnic Crops, Tourism
Craving a taste of his native Liberia 4,500 miles (7,200 km)away, maintenance worker Alfred Jones drove just 20 miles from his New Jersey home and waded knee deep into rows of pick-your-own African vegetables at Morris Gbolo’s World Crops Farm… With roughly one-tenth of the U.S. population living within 100 miles of central New Jersey – much of it affluent – the state is in a geographic sweet spot for agritourism, said Brian Schilling, a specialist with Rutgers Cooperative Extension, linked to the state university… New Jersey’s location is the reason the legislature approved the nickname in the first place in 1954, said Richard VanVranken, a Rutgers agricultural agent… “It was about everything in New Jersey being ripe for the picking for New York and Philadelphia. That drives a lot of what we do, being able to serve the huge markets that we’re right in the middle of,” VanVranken said.
Fishermen Band Up For Future of Fluke Fishing
In the coastwide summer flounder fishery, recreational quotas are managed by a statistical formula based on size, season and bag limit. Because fish are not weighed dockside and tabulated individually as in the commercial sector, a combination of docks…