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Calibration And Validation Of The Hybrid-Maize Crop Model For Regional Analysis And Application Over The U.S. Corn Belt, Xing Liu, Jeff Andresen, Haishun Yang, Dev Niyogi

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Detailed parameter sensitivity, model validation, and regional calibration of the Hybrid-Maize crop model were undertaken for the purpose of regional agroclimatic assessments. The model was run at both field scale and county scale. The county-scale study was based on 30-yr daily weather data and corn yield data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service survey for 24 locations across the Corn Belt of the United States. The field-scale study was based on AmeriFlux sites at Bondville, Illinois, andMead, Nebraska. By using the one-at-a-time and interaction-explicit factorial design approaches for sensitivity analysis, the study found that the five most sensitive parameters of …

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

No abstract provided.

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.

Evaluation Of Insect-Protected And Noninsect-Protected Supersweet Sweet Corn Cultivars For West Virginia — 2014, Lewis W. Jett, David Workman, Brian Sparks

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

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2014 Evaluation Of Hybrid Bell Pepper Varieties For High Tunnel Production In Kansas, Kimberly L. Oxley, Cary L. Rivard

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Biochar As A Soil Amendment In A High Tunnel, Polybag Growth System, Ron Goldy, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Pumpkin Cultivar Production & Quality Evaluations — 2014, Brad R. Bergefurd, Wayne Lewis, Thom Harker

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Saginaw Valley Research And Extension Center 2014 Pickling Cucumber Variety Trial, Ben Phillips

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Kentucky Bell Pepper Variety Trial — 2014, Shubin K. Saha, Lucas Hanks

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.