Fresh Market Vegetable Production

Objectives:
Determine yield and quality characteristics of sweet corn cultivars which may be appropriate for climate and cultural practices in the Columbia basin.

 Objectives:

OBJECTIVES:

• To evaluate the effect of several nitrogen sources and calcium rates on yield, head rot, quality, and nitrogen content of broccoli.
• To evaluate the efficacy of copper compounds and selected bacterial antagonists for control of broccoli head rot.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

C. Shock and C. Burnett
OSU Agricultural Experiment Station

Cooperators:
Dale Wilson and Krishna Mohan, University of Idaho
Bob Trent, Crookham Company
Lee Schweitzer, Asgrow
Mark Hughes, Germains

Objectives: 

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

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

Objectives:

1. Evaluate the role of planting date on cutworm colonization.
2. Evaluate the role of plant height/age in cutworm colonization.
3. Determine the best time to apply insecticides for the black cutworm based on 1 and 2.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Brian Croft, Glenn Fischer, Leonard Coop, and Ray Derapek
OSU Dept of Entomology

Objectives:

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Dan Curtis and Ray Williams
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objectives:

1. To identify weed management strategies that suppress wild proso millet below thresholds that ensure harvestability.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Ross Penhallegon
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Dan McGrath
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Paul Koepsell
OSU Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology

Objective:

1. To evaluate the effectiveness of registered and unregistered chemical controls of Rust, Leaf Spot, and Downey Mildew in Table Beets (Uromyces betae, Cercospora beticola, and Peronospora schachtii.)

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Jim Baggett
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objectives: 

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Garvin Crabtree
Bill Mansour
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objectives:

1. Determine the potential selective herbicidal activity of three nitrogen-containing fertilizer solutions.
2. Compare broccoli response to nitrogen applied in these foliar sprays to equal amounts of nitrogen applied in the usual form of side-dressed fertilizer.