The New Jersey Farmer Archives
RAREC handles bulk of fruit, vegetable research
BRIDGETON — Dr. Andy Wyenandt, a vegetable pathologist at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center here, gave The New Jersey Farmer a tour of this massive research facility in late June. The 300-acre facility straddles the borders of Salem and...
Degener: Farming ‘is better for you’
CAPE MAY — Elizabeth Degener calls Enfin Farms “a little sanctuary just outside of town with a nice green space.”“It was his grandparents farm,” she says of her dad, Richard. “My husband and I built a house on the farm a few years ago.” Her husband is Josh Andrewson,...
Researchers create strains to help bees
ANDOVER — Beekeepers are trying many different innovations to protect their hives from Colony Collapse Disorder with research at many colleges. Some recently published research at the Department of Entomology at Washington State University, Pullman, is showing...
Tottens relying on love of family, soil, good health
LONG VALLEY — The Take a ride in his SUV with Totten Family Farm owner, Jim Totten, and you know his heart is every bit of his Long Valley acreage.The irrigation ponds, the woods, the grazing fields, the farm market — all of it.Including the old truck. “It’s a 1938...
Some, but not all, county fairs reopening this season
TRENTON — Not all county fairs will be going on at their regularly scheduled times this summer, but many will be held around the Garden State. For example, in Burlington County, a mostly rural county heavy on farms and farming, organizers did not know what levels of...
Summer forages and nitrates (Animal Science Update)
(Editor’s note: Michael Westendorf is with the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.) Whenever a summer drought limits forage production, nitrates can accumulate in plants. Adequate forages are essential for feeding ruminants and...
Netcong Farmers’ Market a reality
NETCONG — From the signs for miles on Route 46, Route 206 and Route 80, one would think Netcong is the center of the known universe.The tiny Morris County Borough is actually just the confluence of those three roads.But it does get plenty of traffic and the railroad...
Maliks make business out of affinity of exotic fruit popular in Japan
WEST WINDSOR — From Vivek Malik and his wife Seema, the couple who launched Bhumi Growers did so after an all-too-common realization: Life is short. You might as well be happy in your chosen work. By tapping into a demand for “local citrus” the West Windsor couple...
WOTUS: Woe to us? (Editorial)
The latest volley in the political ping-pong of defining the “Waters of the United States” is putting farmers back on the defensive, and rightfully so. While it purports to govern through the Clean Water Act how waterways are used, the recent push to repeal and...
Buttercups in horse pastures (Animal Science Update)
‘Tis the Season’ for me to be getting a lot of questions regarding weeds in horse pastures and what can be done.My column last month focused on “slobbering” horses due to the black patch fungus of clovers.Now I will focus on anther commonly asked about weed:...
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