New Jersey

NJ peach farmer looking for thieves who stripped his trees bare

· July 9, 2018

A New Jersey peach farmer is asking for the public’s help after finding thieves had stripped his trees bare last week and made off with over $1,000 in produce. On Tuesday, Tom Holthauzer walked over to his 144-acre orchard in Mullica Hill to discover every tree was bare. Some peaches were not even ripe yet. […]

Mystery tick discovered on New Jersey Farm now here to stay

· April 25, 2018

No one knows how an exotic East Asian tick arrived on a farm in New Jersey, but it looks like the pest has taken up permanent residence. Following initial identification by the Center for Vector Biology at Rutgers University and the Hunterdon County Department of Health, the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa […]

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