Agriculture and Environment Symposium

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Agriculture and Environment Symposium

• New Practices on the Horizon
• Roy Meyer
• NJDEP - Pesticide Control Program

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New Jersey Food Monitoring and Evaluation Program

• Examine Residues
• FQPA Tolerance Evaluations/Risk Assessments
• Roadside Markets-Unique Venue for Produce in NJ
• Overall Quality of NJs Fresh Produce

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New Jersey Food Monitoring and Evaluation Program

• 129 Samples Collected
• Number of Each Commodity Collected
• 13 Apples 9 Eggplant 3 Potatoes
• 4 Asparagus 4 Lettuce 9 Squash
• 10 Blueberries 4 Onions 6 Strawberries
• 3 Cherries 14 Peaches 13 Sweet Corn
• 7 Cucumbers 11 Peppers 19 Tomatoes
• 72 New Jersey Grown28 Non-New Jersey Grown

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New Jersey Food Monitoring and Evaluation Program

• 81 Residue Detections
• Samples with Non-Detectable Residues
• NJFMEP USDA PDP
• 58 43

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Golf Course Project

• Examine the potential for pesticide residues
  migrating from treated sites into surrounding
  watershed
• Partnership between
• Ocean County Golf Course at Atlantis
• Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County
• NJDEP Pesticide Control Program
• Georgian Court College
• One year examination of course management
  practices
• Weekly examination of surface water quality on
  and around the course

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Golf Course Project

• Multiple project goals
• 1. Examine relationship between residue levels
  found on the course and levels detected in the
  surrounding watershed
• 2. Examine the effectiveness of Best Management
  Practices (BMPs) in reducing the risk of
  contamination by pesticide residues
• 3. Develop effective management approaches to
  allow golf course operation with minimal
  environmental impact
• Comparison with historical data
• pesticide use records
• pesticide residue detections

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Golf Course ProjectBMPs

• Turf Management
• Selection of turf type and cultivar
• General Cultural Techniques
• Diagnostic Techniques
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Approaches
• Soil Management
• Testing and monitoring
• Management and culture
• Fertility Management
• Fertilizer Storage

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Golf Course ProjectBMPs

• Pesticide Management
• Pesticide Use
• Selection of low risk pesticides
• Applications
• Operation and Maintenance
• Managing Pesticide Runoff
• Irrigation Practices
• Irrigation Water Quality
• Runoff Water Management