Bed Bugs are a rapidly growing problem – showing up everywhere. The Department of Entomology at Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station gives a comprehensive overview of this menace. For more information on bed bugs, visit the bed bug website at: njaes.rutgers.edu/bedbug.
Get to Know Rutgers NJAES: Spotlight on the EcoComplex
Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) off-campus research centers are sometimes located in remote parts of the state, providing limited opportunity for others to know the scope of their work. In the Get to Know Rutgers NJAES Series, we’ll take a look at these centers and find out just what they do. Serpil Guran, […]
ARCS students help to replenish state oyster population
Local students took their lessons outside Thursday in Galloway Township. Kids at Assumption Regional Catholic School helped to replenish the state’s oyster population by participating in Project Ports on Thursday. Students filled shell bags today that …
What’s in Season from the Garden State: Jersey Strawberries – The Breed Goes On
The season for strawberries in New Jersey is short but sweet – lasting from late May to mid-June. With the year-round abundance of California and Florida strawberries in supermarkets, New Jersey’s strawberry season goes by almost unnoticed, except by aficionados who seek out home grown varieties. While not quite scarce, the commercial production of Jersey […]
David Michael, Rutgers Team on Gluten-Free Research
David Michael & Co., a global provider of flavors, stabilizers and natural flavors, will be joining Rutgers University Food Innovation Center in a collaborative effort to collect fresh insights from consumers on the gluten-free category. David Mich…
Fresh new farmers in New Jersey feed the demand for crops that are produced locally
Jon McConaughy was an unlikely pick for a farmer. Formerly a trader at Credit Suisse on Wall Street, he gave it all up several years ago to raise animals and crops and run a market in Hopewell. Stocks and bonds were not the only things that mattered to…
Atlantic County produce auction house one of nation’s oldest
Felix Donato’s great-grandfather was a farmer who helped start the Landisville Produce Cooperative 100 years ago so growers in the region could match their crops with buyers. But Donato, 42, who manages it today, is not a farmer. He has an economics an…
Alba Vineyard is Toast of NJ Wine Competition
Alba Vineyard of Milford is the big winner in this year’s New Jersey Wine Competition Awards, taking home six gold medals and earning the title Winery of the Year. In all, 140 medals were presented to 24 producers, representing the best of the Garden S…
“Bare-bones” Equine Research at Rutgers
In 2012, the Department of Animal Sciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences celebrated the addition of its most unique member of the equine research herd, an authentic articulated horse skeleton! Carey Williams and Sarah Ralston, professors in the Department of Animal Sciences, were instrumental in acquiring the equine skeleton, which was purchased […]
Rutgers Helps Grow Community Apple Orchard in New Brunswick
A new community apple orchard at the Shiloh Community Garden in New Brunswick, NJ, practically sprouted overnight in late April. A group of volunteers from Elijah’s Promise, New Brunswick Community Food Alliance and local residents as well as staff and faculty from various departments at Rutgers, planted an orchard of 40 apple trees in one […]
