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Midwest Triploid Watermelon Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2015, Wenjing Guan, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report For 2015, Elizabeth Maynard

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This is a compilation of 19 research trial reports from six land-grant universities in the midwestern United States. Crops include bok choy, cantaloupe, cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, sweet corn, squash, tomato, and watermelon. Several crops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties, including one investigating cantaloupe variety influence on cucumber beetle presence and incidence of bacterial wilt. Four reports addressed specific growing practices: the use of poly-coated urea to supply nitrogen to sweet corn, biochar use in a high tunnel bag culture system, use of cereal rye cover crop in butternut squash, and pollinizer …

Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This paper reports on thirteen bicolor, two yellow, and three white supersweet sweet corn entries that were evaluated at the Pinney-Purdue Agricultural Center in Wanatah, Indiana.

Winter Squash Variety Evaluation, John Strang, Chris Smigell, John Snyder, Pam Sigler

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Comparison Of Attractiveness And Reaction Of Melon Cultivars To The Striped Cucumber Beetle And Bacterial Wilt, 2015, Ahmad Shah Mohammadi, Ricky E. Foster, Elizabeth Maynard, Dan Egel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Cantaloupe Variety Trial For Kentucky, 2015, Shubin K. Saha, John Snyder, Chris Smigell, John Walsh

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Poly-Coated Urea As A Seasonlong Nitrogen Source For Sweet Corn, Ron Goldy, Carly Andres, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Second Year Results Using Biochar As A Soil Amendment In A High Tunnel, Polybag Growth System, Ron Goldy, Carly Andres, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Mini- And Heirloom Sweet Pepper Variety Performance In High Tunnels, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

Trials on mini sweet peppers and other specialty sweet peppers in the Midwest have not recently been reported. We undertook this project to compare yield and fruit characteristics of hybrid and heirloom peppers grown in high tunnels using organic and conventional production methods.

Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas

Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Research Reports

This paper reports on thirteen bicolor, two yellow, and three white supersweet sweet corn entries that were evaluated at the Pinney-Purdue Agricultural Center in Wanatah, Indiana.

Pumpkin Cultivar Performance Trial Grown In Southern Ohio — 2015, Brad R. Bergefurd, Wayne Lewis, Thom Harker, Dane Peck, Dannah Diedrick

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Sugar-Enhanced And Synergistic Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2015, Elizabeth Maynard, Israel S. Calsoyas

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This paper reports on seven bicolor and two yellow sugar-enhanced or synergistic sweet corn entries that were evaluated at the Pinney-Purdue Agricultural Center in Wanatah, Indiana.

Seedless Watermelon Variety Trial For Kentucky, 2015, Shubin K. Saha, John Snyder, Chris Smigell, John Walsh

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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2015 Butternut Squash Cereal Rye Cover Crop Trial, Ben Phillips

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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You Don’T Have To Go Home But You Carrot Stay Here: Root-Knot Nematode Biological Control In Carrots, Casey R. Martin, Sahar Abdelrazek, Lori A. Hoagland

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Root-knot nematodes cause tens of billions of dollars in damages annually in agricultural production. The enormous economic losses brought about by nematodes, combined with the downsides to current methods for handling them, have led to an increased focus in understanding natural plant defense mechanisms and finding alternative methods to lessen the damage done by root-knot nematodes. Endophyte biocontrol agents such as Trichoderma harzianum have shown promise in reducing nematode damage. Recent studies have demonstrated that soil management practices and plant genotype can influence endophyte community structure, but it is unclear whether such differences influence susceptibility to nematode damage. This study …

Application And Implications Of Rule-Based Pruning Of Apple Trees, Jacob B. Franzen

Open Access Theses

Labor is one of the largest operating costs associated with tree fruit production in the United States. Pruning and harvest can easily eclipse over a quarter of an orchard's operating budget. Additionally, labor sources are becoming increasingly difficult to find while worker pay keeps going up. As a result, it appears that labor costs will continue to rise for the foreseeable future. Work on developing mechanized alternatives to pruning is seen as one of the key areas to reduce an orchard's dependence on human labor. The objective of this study was to test a set of simplified pruning rules (RUL), …

Growth Parameters Of 'Golden Delicious' Apple Trees (Malus X Domestica Borkh), Biying Shi

Open Access Theses

High yield and high quality of tree fruit result from appropriate orchard design and management practices. This requires an accurate knowledge of vegetative growth, branching, and flowering processes of fruit trees. Tree development knowledge is the fundamental information necessary to build functional-structural tree models, which have various applications in agriculture. To build such models, information is needed on the distributions of growth parameters, not merely means as are often reported. The objective of this study was to quantitatively analyze shoot development and examine the correlations between fruit quality and light distribution in apple trees. This study was conducted in 2014, …

Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivar Evaluation For Northern Indiana, 2014, Elizabeth Maynard

Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Research Reports

Indiana sweet corn acreage harvested for fresh market averaged 5,233 acres annually from 2011- 2013, with a yield of 63 hundreweight per acre (149 crates or 3.1 tons per acre) and an annual value of $13.9 million (USDA NASS, 2014). Sweet corn fields for fresh market sales are located throughout the state. In northern Indiana, bicolor corn is most commonly grown.

Varieties with improved eating quality are of interest to both producers and consumers. The term ‘supersweet’ commonly refers to sweet corn with two copies of the shrunken-2 (sh2) gene that have high levels of sugar in the kernels and …

Midwest Cantaloupe Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2014, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie, Sara Hoke

Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Research Reports

This is a compilation of 30 research trial reports from four land-grant universities in the Midwestern United States. Crops include cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, potato, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Somecrops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. One report addressed plant spacing for sweet corn and one addressed soil block for production of tomato seedlings. A list of vegetable seed sources and a list of other online sources of vegetable trial reports are also included.

Saginaw Valley Research And Extension Center 2014 Sh2 Sweet Corn Variety Trial, Ben Phillips

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Spring High Tunnel Radish Evaluations, Lewis W. Jett

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Midwest Cantaloupe Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2014, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie, Sara Hoke

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of 18 Specialty Potatoes In Southwest Michigan, Ron Goldy, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Kohlrabi Variety Evaluation — 2014, John Strang, Chris Smigell, John Snyder, Pam Sigler

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Hairy Vetch As A Replacement For Synthetic Nitrogen, Ron Goldy, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This is a compilation of 30 research trial reports from four land-grant universities in the Midwestern United States. Crops include cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, potato, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Somecrops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. One report addressed plant spacing for sweet corn and one addressed soil block for production of tomato seedlings. A list of vegetable seed sources and a list of other online sources of vegetable trial reports are also included.

Fall Broccoli Cultivar Trial 2012-2013, Shawn Wright, Darrell Slone, John Snyder

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Collaborating With Extension Master Gardeners To Evaluate Tomato Cultivars, Charles J. Barden, G.A. Pabodha Galgamuwa, Ward Upham

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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Nitrogen Release And Disease Suppressive Activity Of Four Compost Amendments On Three Vegetable Farms, Lori Hoagland, Elizabeth Maynard, Dan Egel, Natasha Cerruti, Jeff Evard, Ben Nava, Steve Spencer

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Midwest Triploid Watermelon Variety Trial In Southwest Indiana — 2014, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie, Sara Hoke

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Asian Vegetables In West Virginia, Lewis Jett

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.