We’re not surprised that hundreds of Asbury Park Press readers have sent in pictures of their children and grandchildren in the kitchen since we started collecting them in the fall. On app.com, we have 10 galleries of Kids at the Table, and more are on…
Sustaining Farming on the Urban Fringe: High Farmland Value, Low Farmland Rent
The amount of capital needed to invest in farming is often a barrier for prospective farmers, especially with New Jersey’s high land values. Land leasing is a viable option for keeping more farmland in production. Read in this issue of Sustaining Farming on the Urban Fringe how land leasing benefits more than just landowners and […]
Students Place in Top 10 in Annual International Turf Bowl Competition
Three teams of undergraduate students, all members of the Rutgers Turf Club, competed in the 2013 Turf Bowl Competition at the International Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Conference and Trade Show in San Diego, CA, in February. The teams, which were comprised of four students each, placed 6th, 14th, and 44th out of 68 […]
Getting the Facts on Farmland Assessments
Despite the size and cost of New Jersey’s farmland-assessment program, there is no straightforward repository of information about all the properties receiving a tax break under it…In preparing its 2008 report on the potential impact of revising the …
Agricultural Agent Jerry Frecon Retires After a Fruitful Career
Jerome “Jerry” L. Frecon, who served the New Jersey fruit industry for the past 31 years as an agricultural resource management agent and county department head for Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County, retired in December 2012. His career as a pomologist spanned 46 years and focused on tree fruits, small fruits and nuts. Frecon […]
Rutgers Leads Multi-Million USDA Grant to Fight Stink Bugs
The brown marmorated stink bug is a highly invasive pest that has caused significant agricultural losses in the Mid-Atlantic states and is spreading to Southern and Mid-Western states as well, since its discovery in the U.S. in the mid-1990s. Native to Japan, China, and Korea, this pest has caused significant damage in its adopted homeland […]
Silicon: An Essential Plant Nutrient?
Groundbreaking research demonstrates benefits on a variety of crops Silicon—we think of it in sand and as an abundant element like oxygen or aluminum in soils. In New Jersey, with beaches and sandy soil everywhere around us, how could silicon be an essential plant “nutrient,” in short supply? It turns out, not all silicon is […]
Professor Sarah Ralston Receives Fulbright to Teach and Conduct Research in Brazil
Sarah Ralston, associate professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at Rutgers, has been selected for a 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant. A member of the Animal Sciences faculty at Rutgers since 1989, Ralston plans to travel to Brazil next spring to offer a course in “Equine Nutrition” to veterinary and zootechnology students at the […]
2013 Rutgers Home Gardeners School on March 23
Gardeners who want to sharpen their skills on proper pruning or learn how to keep their hydrangeas happy are invited to attend the 37th Annual Home Gardeners School on Saturday, March 23, 2013. Program and registration information is available from the Office of Continuing Professional Education.
Horse meat in Ikea’s Swedish meatballs in Europe: Would you eat it?
Swedish furnishings giant Ikea says it is withdrawing meatballs from stores in 21 European countries amid concerns that they could contain horse meat. Monday’s move comes after authorities in the Czech Republic said they had detected horse DNA in tests…
