The New Jersey Farmer Archives
Moke, Briganti carry on Lindeken’s standards
WHARTON — Tom Moke, 36, and Joe Briganti, 35, were friends since their high school days at Morris County Vocational Technical School. They were were also working full-time jobs in the construction industry.The duo exited those jobs in April 2018 and...
Publisher Hostetter dies at 97
NORTH EAST, Md. — Newspapers, like farms, have several ways of measuring success. But whether judged in circulation totals or bushels per acre, it’s the people behind the numbers that tell the real story.With the death last month of chairman and publisher...
Soybean producers gather at Rutgers
BORDENTOWN — The eighth annual Soybean Producers Meeting was held at the Rutgers EcoComplex on March 6 with a bevy of engaging speakers.New Jersey Soybean Board Chairman Brian Palmer, formerly of New Jersey but whose job with Perdue Agribusiness has taken...
Leskie offers deer management update
BORDENTOWN — New Jersey senior wildlife biologist Joe Leskie offered an insight-filled update on deer management for soybean farmers at the eighth annual Soybean Producers meeting on March 6, organized by the New Jersey Soybean Board. Leskie, a southern...
NJDA hosts meeting of farmers looking for land
TRENTON — A late February meeting at the New Jersey Department of Agriculture building brought together farmers from all over the state and even a few from New York. The evening seminar on Feb. 28 was part of a series of workshops regularly offered. The...
Animal impacts (Animal Science Update)
The United States’ animal industries have seen increased efficiency gains over the past 60-70 years. In the case of dairy, over the past 70 years, herd production has gone from 5,000 pounds-per-cow-per-year to more than 22,000 pounds-per-cow-per-year...
We’ve lost a great friend (Editorial)
America has lost a great patriot, and we have lost a great friend.E. Ralph Hostetter, owner of American Farm Publications Inc., and publisher of The New Jersey Farmer, The Delmarva Farmer and Shore Home & Garden Magazine, died peacefully in his sleep...
Fisherman works to share harvest from severely regulated industry
LAVALETTE — A Jersey Shore native is trying to help feed the hungry from some of the East Coast's largest seaports and one the nation's most regulated industries: Commercial fishing.Brick Wenzel has been rallying for support of a gleaning program like...
Balz enjoying ‘retirement’ by staying active
MONROE TOWNSHIP — Recently retired as general manager at the nearby Plant Food Company in Cranbury, Bob Balz now plans to do full-time what he’s always done part-time.“This is my grandmother’s farm. They were here in the late 1930’s just before World War...
Bohacz staying busy with TV segments, YouTube videos and podcasts
ALLAMUCHY TOWNSHIP — Ray Bohacz Jr. combines his loves of engines and of farming in his podcast and his television appearances for Successful Farming Magazine.Bohacz thought his career would go a very different way. He was planning on attending college in...
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