The New Jersey Farmer Archives
Pumpkin auction a big hit once again
HIGHTSTOWN — Established at the height of the Great Depression in 1933-34, the non profit Tri-County Farmers’ Cooperative held its annual pumpkin and fall decorative goods auction on Sept. 17. To help farmers sell their excess goods and to help local...
Piancone turning focus on teaching
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Julie Piancone, who graduated from the Career Center in 2017 and is a 2021 graduate of Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa., has returned to Monmouth County Vocational and Technical High School this fall to for a student...
Rutgers grows 100 varieties of amaranth
EAST BRUNSWICK — After being closed for the 2020 growing season for irrigation improvements and other needed technical renovations, Rutgers’ Horticulture Farm No. 3 off Ryders’ Lane here is once again bustling with a plethora of ag-related research...
Brother farm managers grow fig trees in South Amboy
SOUTH AMBOY — Growing fig trees that produce good, substantial yields is not easy in New Jersey. Many fig growers – like Bill’s Figs of Flemington — keep their fig trees in pots and move them indoors for the winter. Jacob and Rigo Cruz, foremen at Jim...
Agriculture has online threats (Editorial)
A pair of FBI agents joined an online symposium held by the Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center in April to warn agriculturists in the region: The farming sector is as vulnerable to hacking and new-age criminality as any other industry in the United...
Feeding animals to protect the environment (Animal Science Update)
(Editor’s note: Michael Westendorf is with the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.) Balanced diets are good for the animal and for the environment. When diets are out of balance, excess nutrients will be wasted. This...
Houshmand cooks up scholarships
GLASSBORO — Although hot peppers of all types are grown all over his native Iran, Rowan University President Dr. Ali Houshmand didn’t get the hot sauce bug until he was living in Cincinnati.Now with his own line of specialty hot sauces — which he uses to raise...
Collins helps to usher in pollinators
ANDOVER TOWNSHIP — Bright pollinators line the edge of Route 206 marking the entrance to the Sussex County Community College student farm. Plenty of bees have found the flowers and a few monarch larvae hang from the swamp milkweed, which appears to be less tasty to...
Traylor has quest to save 578-acre farm
WANTAGE — On a recent, well overcast summer day, Lusscroft Farm is silent except for the patter of raindrops hitting the pavement.You may not feel any presence, but you can hear past voices, urging the abundance of activity to return to the property which includes...
Checkoff funding picks up tab (Editorial)
As combines move up and down Mid-Atlantic fields this harvest season, the flood of data from yield monitors, check strips and test plots begins to flow for next year’s decision making. A part of that local information are the variety trials from area Land Grant...
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