Corn

OBJECTIVES:

• Refine corn earworm monitoring techniques using pheromone and black light traps.
• Continue developing a statewide pheromone trapping program.
• Study earworm flight and infestation trends that can be used to predict damaging infestations.
• Develop corn earworm and sweet corn development models.
• Conduct insecticide trials to determine if and when sprays are most effectively used.
• Incorporate relevant information into a damage prediction model that can be used for management purposes.

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.

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.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

C. Burnett and C. Shock
OSU Malheur Agricultural Experiment Station

 Objectives:

1. Determine the role of seed size in super sweet corn stand establishment.
2. Evaluate the effect of seed treatments and seed coatings upon super sweet corn emergence.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

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

Objectives:

Objectives:
To determine the production and processing potential of new introductions of supersweet corn.

Objectives:
To determine the production and processing potential of new introductions of supersweet corn.

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

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

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