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Office Of Communications Portfolio of Work Ofce Of Communications Portfolio of Work ‘11 - ’12 Ofce Of Communications Portfolio of Work New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Annual Report Re-Design. 2011 AnnuAl RepoRt njAes.RutgeRs.edu NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURA L tAble of contents E XPERIMEN T i STAFF INFORMATION STATION i WE HAVE THE STATE COVERED ii FUNDING SOURCES AND EXPENDITURE BREAKDOWN commeRciAl AgRicultuRe 1 Managing Stink Bugs; Constructing High Tunnels 3 Enhancing Agritourism; Educating Women Farmers enviRonment And nAtuRAl ResouRces 5 IR-4 Pesticide Research Support; Aerosols and Air Quality Research NEW JERSEY 7 Building Rain Barrels and Gardens; Responding to Storms and Floods AGRICULTURA L fisheRies And AquAcultuRe E XPERIMEN T 9 Fisheries Leadership Reorganized; Improving Fisheries Management 11 Developing Oyster Genetics; Sea Grant Funding for Aquaculture STATION food, nutRition, And heAlth 13 Supporting Endocrine Health; Promoting Nutrition and Health 15 “Grow Healthy” Wellness Program; Creating Healthy School Meals home, lAwn, And gARden 17 Greening the Turfgrass Industry; Fertilizer Law Sparks Training 19 Growing Community Gardens; Sustaining Urban Environments Youth And communitY development 21 4-H Food and Fitness Ambassadors; Building Community at 4-H Camp 23 Robotics Improves “STEM” Education; Programs Teach Science Literacy economic development 25 Developing Natural Plant Products; “Agriculture in the Middle” Initiative suppoRting n Aes 27 Honoring Phillip Alampi; Promoting Cranberry Research 29 BOARD OF MANAGERS STATEWIDE ADVISORY COMMITTEE COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICES 30 OFF-CAMPUS STATIONS CENTERS AND INSTITUTES eRseY Roots, globAl ReAch n Aes.RutgeRs.edu NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURA L E XPERIMEN T STATION ouR mission To enhance the vitality, health, sustainability, and overall quality of life in New Jersey by developing and delivering practical, effective solutions to current and future challenges relating to agriculture; fsheries; food; natural resources; environments; public health; and economic, community, and youth development. RobeRt m. goodmAn lARRY s. KAtz mARgARet bRennAn-tonettA Executive Dean of Agriculture and Senior Associate Director Associate Director for Economic Development Natural Resources Director, Cooperative Extension 848-932-3776 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 848-932-3591 [email protected] [email protected] Executive Director mARY jAne illis 848-932-3600 bRAdleY i. hillmAn Associate Director, Cooperative Extension [email protected] funding souRces expendituRe bReAKdown Senior Associate Director 848-932-3583 gAil AlexAndeR Director, Cooperative Research [email protected] 848-932-3777 42.7% GRANTS AND CONTRACTS 27.6% OPERATING EXPENSES Chief of Staff, Offce of the Executive Dean cARol hARveY 848-932-3501 [email protected] Assistant Director for Administration 6.7% COUNTY APPROPRIATIONS 23.9% FACULTY SALARIES* [email protected] 848-932-3775 jAcK RAbin 9.8% FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS 6.8% FACILITIES AND AD INISTRATION (F. & A.)** Associate Director, Farm Programs [email protected] 848-932-3610 15.8% OTHER GIFTS AND SALES/SERVICE FEES 5.4% FRINGE BENEFITS (F. B.) [email protected] 25.0% STATE APPROPRIATIONS 36.3% STAFF SALARIES* e hAve the stAte coveRed * Includes in-kind salaries paid by counties to RCE faculty and staff. ReAching All 21 ne jeRseY counties: ** Facilities and Administration Costs (F. & A.) were previously referred to as Indirect Costs. These are costs that are incurred for common or joint objectives and therefore cannot be identifed readily and specifcally with a particular sponsored project, instructional activity, or any other institutional activity. Facilities costs include building and Rutgers Cooperative Extension Statistics equipment depreciation, operation and maintenance expenses, interest on debt and library expenses. Administration costs include general administration and general expenses, departmental administration, sponsored projects administration, student administration and services. 270,301 participants in educational outreach 2,473 active Rutgers Master Gardener volunteers 6,316 youth and 2,855 adult EFNEP participants reached in behaviorally 5, 377 volunteers trained 11,862 one-on-one visits to homes, farms, felds, focused nutrition education classes 57,301 programs conducted and industries Base funding from the State of New Jersey and from USDA National Institute of NJAES expended a total of $87.1 million 50,335 youth and 3,882 adult 18,087 issues of various newsletters with a Food and Agriculture formula funds provides NJAES with a foundation for in funding to support research and extension 50,412 4-H Youth Development program SNAP-Ed participants reached circulation of 6 0,110 program development and delivery, while competitive grants, contracts, and gifts activities in FY11, representing a slight decline in spending over the $89.8 million participants in behaviorally focused nutrition increase the scope and impact of research and education programs. expended in FY10. State appropriations supported 25% of FY11 expenses, compared 2,660 4-H volunteers 1,402,863 downloaded publications and documents education classes to 28.5% in FY10, highlighting the declining role of state support. Increased funding The state appropriation for fscal year 2011 totaled $21.742 million. “Other” funding from grants and contracts largely offset this decline in state support, allowing includes restricted and unrestricted gifts, income from sales of service activities, njAes plAYs A significAnt Role in the stAte’s economic gRo th bY: NJAES to maintain its research and extension programs. More than 50% of grant and patent and plant licensing income. County appropriations include salaries fund expenditures came from awards to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance • Funding cutting-edge, innovative research • Launching start-up enterprises through incubators and business paid by counties to Rutgers Cooperative Extension faculty and staff. We gratefully Program-Education (SNAP-Ed/Extension), the IR-4 program, the Department of • Fostering technology and innovation transfer to industry development support acknowledge the personnel, facilities, and other support that many counties Plant Biology and Pathology, the Offce of Continuing Professional Education, • Providing a well-educated, highly skilled workforce provide to Rutgers Cooperative Extension. and the Center for Environmental Prediction. ii i • Developing sustainable growth strategies for urban and rural communities Ofce Of Communications Office Of Communications Portfolio of Work New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Annual Report Re-Design (continued). commeRciAl AgRicultuRe mAnAging stinK bugs constRucting high tunnels The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) caused serious agricultural High tunnels are passive-energy, polyethylene-covered hoop houses, which problems in 2010, causing an average of 58% damage in infested peach are effective tools for extending the production season for numerous and apple orchards and up to 70% damage in some pepper felds. While specialty crops. In addition, they improve yield and quality, reduce damage was less in 2011, the insect caused a two- to three-fold increase in fertilizer leaching, costly pesticide and fungicide inputs, and provide quick pest control costs for growers as it has no effective native, natural enemies payback on a modest capital investment when properly constructed and and over 300 alternate hosts, enabling adults to constantly migrate and managed. NJAES provides annual training for growers on best practices for re-infest crops. Since many commonly used insecticides prove ineffective managing the crop-growing environment of high tunnels. In 2011, Wesley against BMSB, the IR-4 Project supplied data that was used to support an Kline, agricultural and resource management agent, Cumberland County, emergency use approval of a previously unregistered use of dinotefuran, led a high tunnel trial for early maturing tomatoes grafted onto disease which showed effcacy on peaches and other stone fruit. NJAES is part of a resistant root stock in an initiative funded by NJAES. This method helps $5.7 million multi-state research and extension project, “Biology, Ecology, smaller urban fringe farmers to produce successful early tomato crops and Management of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug in Orchard Crops, Small even without suffcient land to practice three- to four-year crop rotations Fruit, Grapes, Vegetables, and Ornamentals,” led by USDA in Kearneysville, that favor the growth of varieties of tomatoes without disease resistance. WV. New Jersey investigators include Rutgers scientists George Hamilton, Dean Richard Van Vranken, agricultural and resource management agent, Polk, Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, and Dan Ward. NJAES will receive $250,000 Atlantic County, and colleagues commenced work on a pilot project to per year, for three years, to study better management and monitoring evaluate and demonstrate to New Jersey farmers the potential impacts methods as well as potential biological control agents for peach, apple, of both single- and multi-bay, commercial-size high tunnels on nutrient, blueberry, and grape crops. This research will combine new controls into pest, and irrigation management, as well as effective crop and cover crop existing integrated pest management (IPM) programs, with the goal of rotations. The pilot is funded under a three-year Conservation Innovation controlling grower production