The New Jersey Farmer Archives
Robinson: Pollinator population needs help
HOPEWELL — Organic farmer and native pollinators expert Judith Robinson argues there are many things conventional farmers can do to improve the native pollinator population on their farms. Big and small farms, conventional and organic, can engage in some simple,...
Hay storage (Animal Science Update)
(Editor’s note: Michael Westendorf is with the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers.) Inclement New Jersey weather can bring large amounts of precipitation in the form of rain, snow, and ice, and result in crop and forage losses. Rainfall,...
Ball’s in biotech industry’s court (Editorial)
June marked the start of USDA phasing in new regulations for crop biotechnology, completing a 10-year process that revised rule first set in 1987.The new Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient or SECURE Rule, governs how...
Suydam beefing up family business
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — As with many farmers selling retail, New Jersey Farm Bureau President Ryck Suydam keeps making changes to draw customers to his family’s farm market. He purchased his first beef cattle in 2012 to finish on his family’s farm....
Balchin adjusts to pandemic with home delivery service
ALLAMUCHY TOWNSHIP — “Every year something unforeseen happens,” Liz Balchin said about farming.But even for farmers, 2020 has been an “interesting” year, she said. “There are different rules this year,” she said, but she and her partner, Ryan Lacz...
Murphy able to keep memories alive at stand
MOUNTAINSIDE — Heather (Prince) Murphy smiles when it is suggested that there are a lot of memories conjured by Mountainside’s Prince’s Farm Stand.“That one was about 180 acres,” she says when asked how big her great-grandparents Springfield farm...
McAndrews loyal to past, embracing the future
MENDHAM — “It keeps going,” says Ruth (MIller) McAndrew Farm. Since Ruth’s father Ted died in 1986, John McAndrew III has always approached things by asking himself, “’What would they think?’ I married into it. I just wanted to honor and do right by...
Masks, social distancing featured as more farmers’ markets debut season
WASHINGTON — There was music in the air over Washington Borough on Saturday, June 20, for the opening day of the borough’s farmers’ market.Like other years, farmers and other vendors were set up in the parking lot off Washington Avenue, but there...
Hunterdon County Fair shelved until August 2021
EAST AMWELL TOWNSHIP — There will be no Hunterdon County 4-H and Agricultural Fair this year, its board of directors recently announced. Because of the current executive order restrictions put in place by Gov. Murphy regarding fairs, festivals and...
Mosquitos and horses: EEE (Animal Science Update)
Over the summer we will work through a few hot topics, mosquitos, ticks and more grazing topics for my column. In this column I will touch on some things dealing with mosquitos and Eastern equine encephalitis, commonly referred to as EEE (usually...
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