Fresh Market Vegetable Production

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Glenn Fisher, R. Berry, and K. West
OSU Dept. of Entomology

Objectives:

1. Determine which species of cutworms are pests in table beets.
2. Determine if pheromone trap catches can be used to predict cutworm problems and time control measures.
3. Evaluate the use of sweep net sampling, egg sampling, soil surface sampling and early leaf feediyy to predict root damage and time control measures.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Jim Baggett
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objectives:

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Bill Braunworth
Garvin Crabtree
Phil Diener
Dan McGrath
OSU Dept. of Horticulture

Objectives:

Objectives:

• Evaluate variation in cultural practices that would allow earlier establishment and earlier harvest of Golden Jubilee sweet corn.
• Determine how to dependably establish uniform stands of supersweet corn.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Bill Braunworth, Daniel Curtis, Dan McGrath, and Garvin Crabtree
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objective:

1. Refinine application timings and rates of the herbicides found most effective on wild proso millet based on the previous three years of study with this weed problem.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Bill Braunworth, Daniel Curtis, Dan McGrath, and Garvin Crabtree
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objectives:

Objectives:

• To test supersweet (sh2) corn varieties for production characteristics and processed quality.
• To determine the relation of maturity stage, yield, and quality for selected varieties.

Grower interest in nitrogen fertilizer sprays for weed control has raised questions about the relative effectiveness of various materials and the contribution these materials make toward the nitrogen nutrition of the crop. A research program established in 1988 evaluated weed control and crop response with four plantings of broccoli.

Objectives:

• To elucidate the effects of transplant culture and characteristics on the maturity and yield of a cauliflower crop.
• To describe differences among sources of transplants in timing of curd initiation, rates of leaf initiation and unfolding, and rate of curd growth in order to better understand the relationship between the yield and maturity of cauliflower, and its growth and development.
• To elucidate aspects of transplant handling, and field culture after transplanting that affect maturity and yield of cauliflower.