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Rutgers Private Applicator 2023 Online License Renewal Assistance

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The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has released an announcement “Pesticide License Renewal Info 2023” to licensed applicators via email. The announcement is posted at https://www.nj.gov/dep/enforcement/docs/Pesticide-License-Renewal-Info-2023.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery.  See today’s companion post to the Plant & Pest Advisory entitled “Private Applicators: NJDEP August Mailing of 2023 Invoices & Recertification Credit Status“. All Private Applicators are now […]

Private Applicators: NJDEP August Mailing of 2023 Invoices & Recertification Credit Status

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On August 11, 2022,  the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection released an email announcement entitled “NJDEP Pesticide Licensing & Registrations – 2023 Pesticide License Renewal Information.” If you cannot locate it in your email, the entire notice is posted for you at Pesticide-License-Renewal-Info-2023. Their notice explains that the NJDEP will be sending paper license […]

Resources for New Jersey Licensed Private Pesticide Applicators & Growers – 2022 Meetings Tools for Regulatory Compliance

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In 2022 Rutgers provided growers with regulatory updates in presentations at NJACTS, the Blueberry Open house and South Jersey Vegetable and Field Crop, North & South Jersey Tree Fruit, and Blueberry Twilights.  Thanks to all host farms. Laminated WPS Pesticide Safety Posters and other WPS Resources were distributed at all Twilight meetings.  Slide Guide: Hastings […]

Pesticide Applicator or Dealer Storage Inventory with Cover Letter Due May 1st to Fire Department

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All licensed pesticide applicators, as well as dealers, who store pesticides are required by law to send a copy of their storage inventor(ies) with an explanatory cover letter to the local fire company by May 1st each year. In New Jersey, all licensed pesticide applicators and dealers who store pesticides are required per N.J.A.C. 7:30-9.5 […]

New State Law (P.L. 2021, c.386) Restricting Neonicotinoid Pesticide Use

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Notice received from New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Pesticide Rules Manager John Orrok. Recent legislation (P.L. 2021, c.386) signed by Governor Murphy on January 18, 2022 will affect the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in New Jersey. This law amends the New Jersey Pesticide Control Act and will make pesticides in the class known as […]