Richard W. VanVranken – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Commercial Agriculture
What’s in Season from the Garden State: Jersey Tomato Throwback – Ramapo Tomato – 50 Years as a Home Gardeners’ Favorite
The year was 1968. Beehive hairdo’s were the rage, as were cars with lots of shiny chrome. New Jersey was lush with diners, drive-in movies and roadside farmstands. And the Jersey tomato reigned supreme. In 1968, there were a number of “Jersey tomato” varieties on the market–products of prior decades of breeding tasty, tangy tomatoes […]
Review: Razza
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
It is consuming crops and swarming Pa. towns. Can N.J. keep this bug away?
Gary Pavlis – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Study Shows Bt-Field Corn Results in Reduced Pest Pressure in Other Non-GM Vegetable Crops
A Mid-Atlantic multi-state study compared the rate of European corn borer and corn earworm damage before and after introduction of Bt-field corn usage on other non-Bt crop fields. The study was published March 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Kristian Holmstrom, research project coordinator in the Vegetable Integrated Pest Management (IPM) […]
Hazelnuts: New Jersey Plant Breeding Program Aims To Benefit Farmers, Consumers
Thomas Molnar – Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Department of Plant Biology
Program to offer new way of teaching ag
Brian Schilling, Stephen Komar – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Rutgers studying cold-resistant cocoa
Thomas Gianfagna – Rutgers Cooperative Extension; Department of Plant Biology
GM corn keeps pests from unmodified neighbors
Kris Holmstrom, Department of Entomology
This Scientist Is Making Sure We Never Run Out Of Nutella
Tom Molnar – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
