The New Jersey Farmer Archives
Tindall reflects on changes in long career as livestock veterinarian
STOCKTON — Dr. Ed Tindall has seen just about everything in his long career as a farm and animal veterinarian. He’s even treated Siberian tigers at a small farm not far from where he’s located in Stockton. Tindall was raised in Plainsboro and worked at Walker Gordon...
Lee finds perfect fit in custom cold frames
EAST WINDSOR — Back when he was 19 and working full-time on the family farm, turkey, fruit and vegetable farmer Ronnie Lee didn’t want to build a greenhouse on the family’s property, which is in between housing subdivisions on Hickory Corner Road.Instead, he built...
Pre-schoolers taught gardening skills
CLIFTON — Signs of spring were all over City Greens farm and educational center on Tuesday, April 12, and pre-schoolers were trying to spot them during the first day of “Story Time.”Emma Latham, school grounds manager for the center, is in charge of youth programs...
N.J. winter wheat yields up as harvest still dropping
As with overall national trends, farming of winter wheat has continued to decline in New Jersey.Both acreage planted and acreage harvested were lower in 2019 as compared to levels five years earlier.Market prices, the ability to double crop, and the need for erosion...
Fifteen more N.J. farms growing grapes than in 2012
The grape industry is a growing part of agriculture in New Jersey.The crop is cultivated in 18 of the State’s 21 counties.According to the most recent data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USDA, there were 212 farms growing grapes in New...
Waste not … (Off the Secretary’s Desk)
(Editor’s note: Douglas Fisher is the New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture.) I’m writing this article on Earth Day, April 22, and it got me thinking how agriculture is related to building climate resilience, and here are a few perspectives.Not long ago, the average...
Farmers crucial to ‘carbonomics’ (Editorial)
Rare are the days when an e-mail related to carbon credits, trading programs, offsets or some other facet of climate economics doesn’t hit our inbox. More often than not, it’s multiple messages — if not in the double digits — that promote a carbon credit webinar,...
Keep track of myths, fads in equine nutrition (Animal Science Update)
As I came to the end of the Rutgers University spring semester, one of the last units in my Equine Nutrition class is about myths and fads. I always find it amazing what comes up in terms of what people have believed to be true but after taking the class they now...
Wagner gets grounded with bees
RAHWAY — Brett Wagner said he knew the time had come“Four years ago,” he recalled, “I was working for a company, and I was 120 feet up in the air, and I’m looking around and I said, ‘You know what? I think I’m going to quit.’“And I called my wife and I...
Grape growers discuss frost events
A small group of the New Jersey’s premier grape growers got together online to discuss coping with late spring frosts in the 2020 growing season. The panel discussion, “New Jersey Grape Growers’ Response to Frost Events,” was moderated by Daniel Ward,...
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