John (Jack) Kupcho, former Essex County agricultural agent and former chair of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) within Rutgers Cooperative Extension passed away on May 11, 2020 at the age of 83. Born in Peckville, PA, he served in the U.S. Air Force and earned his undergraduate degree in ornamental horticulture from […]
Commercial Agriculture
A Season of Adapting for South Jersey Growers
Rick VanVranken – Rutgers Cooperative Extension in Atlantic County
Ethnic Crops in New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic
By Albert Ayeni, ethnic crops research specialist, Department of Plant Biology Reprinted with permission from HortiDaily. Ethnic (or exotic) crops present new opportunities for growers, produce marketers and consumers in New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic. The rapidly changing demographics compels a new look at the crop content of the region with a focus on responding […]
Why are grocery prices rising? Here’s what shoppers need to know
Sanjib Bhuyan – Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics
Sourcing Local NJ Farm Products and Concerns of Food Insecurity
Where does food come from? Does the U.S. produce enough food to feed all Americans? Let’s stop right there for a minute and go back almost five decades. In the 1970s, gasoline and other energy prices soared—causing an American economic crisis. Our country was reliant on foreign oil sources. The U.S. economy struggled, unemployment rates […]
New Jersey’s dangerous harvest
Gary Pavlis – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
New Jersey farmers adapt with innovative marketing strategies
Michelle Infante-Casella; Meredith Melendez – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
A Plant Breeding Breakthrough: Downy Mildew Resistant Sweet Basil
Jim Simon, Department of Plant Biology
Andy Wyenandt, Department of Plant Biology
New Jersey Farmers Adapt with Innovative Marketing Strategies to the Challenges of COVID-19
New Jersey farmers are among the most innovative and most productive farmers in the nation. Farming in the country’s most densely populated state in the U.S. comes with many challenges. It also comes with marketing opportunities with approximately nine million residents in the Garden State. The buy-local movement is not something new to New Jersey. […]
COVID-19 having significant impact on America’s food industry
Bill Bamka, Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Burlington County
