Vegetable production

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.

Objectives: Breed bush green beans for the western Oregon processing industry with:

• Improved potential for high yields at favorable sieve sizes and dependability
• Improved straightness, texture, and other quality factors
• Develop easy picking and small pod strains of Blue Lake type
• Resistance to white mold and root rot

Objectives:

• To enhance the recovery of interspecific hybrids of the common bean with tepary and runner beans.
• To devise and apply methodologies to distinguish embryos with high degrees of hybridity from those resembling the parental types in later progeny populations.

Objectives:

OBJECTIVES:

• To evaluate the effect of plant spacing on yield and disease incidence in two broccoli cultivars
• To evaluate the effect of frequency and amount of irrigation water on yield and disease incidence in three broccoli cultivars

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of registered and unregistered chemical controls of Downy Mildew of Table Beets (Peronospora schachtii) and other foliar diseases of beets.