DB-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 15, 1996
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The Pennsylvania Vegetable
Marketing and Research Program
and the Pennsylvania Vegetable
Growers Association will be giv
ing $32,000 to help fund 10 vege
table research projects in 1996.
The Marketing and Research
Program is contributing $19,000
while the Vegetable Growers As
sociation is contributing another
$13,000.
The Marketing and Research
Program is a statewide marketing
order for vegetables growers and
is funded by annual grower as
sessments. Each grower pays $25
a year plus $1.50 for each acre
over 10 acres (or $1.50 for each
thousand square feet of green
house space used to grow green
house vegetables). The Vegetable
Growers Association is a volun
tary grower organization which
earns its research funds from its
food booths at the Pennsylvania
Farm Show and Ag Progress
Days.
While most of the projects are
at Penn State University, the board
did approve one research grant for
Cornell University that has an on
going research program that
would be helpful to Pennsylvania
growers and two with a private
consulting firm.
The 10 projects and their objectives are listed be
low:
• Disease Control for Snap Beans and Tomatoes,
A. Mac Nab, Penn State, $B,OOO, to evaluate soil
treatments for root rot control, to assess the value of
resistance to early blight in tomatoes, to maintain
and operate a tomato disease forecast system in
several areas of Pennsylvania, and to evaluate pro
cessing tomatoes varieties for tolerance to ripe fruit
rots.
• Sweet Corn IPM for Pennsylvania, S. Spangler,
S. Fleischer and D. Calvin, Penn State University,
$4,000, to maintain and improve the existing infra
structure that monitors pests of sweet com ears and
provide this information to growers in a timely fash
ion through the Vegetable Insect
Newsletter and the 1-800-
PENN-IPM line with a FAX-on-Demand option,
and to emphasize the pheromone based approach to
ECB monitoring using commercial lures as much as
possible.
• Evaluation of the Potential of Trichoderma as a
Biocontrol Agent in Snap-Bean Root Rot, T. Bjork
man, G. Abawi, G. Harman - Cornell Univ., $2,500,
to evaluate the use of the Trichoderma to control
root rots in snap beans.
• 1996 Processing Sweet Com Variety Yield
Trial, M. Brubaker, Brubaker Agronomic Consult
ing, $2,000, to record and document yield and key
agronomic traits for processed varieties of sweet
com.
• 1996 Processing Pea Variety Yield Trial, M,
Brubaker, Brubaker Agronomic Consulting, $l,OOO,
to record and document yield and key agronomic
traits for processed varieties of peas.
• Development of Strategies to Utilize Biocontrols
with Insect Growth Regulators in Greenhouse, vege
table production, M. Orzolck and C. Thomas, Penn
State Univ., $l,OOO, to develop a strategy to use
Amblyseius cucumcris in conjunction with Azadir
achtin to control western flower thnps.
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• Maximizing Quality Pumpkin
Production: A Comparison of
Bare-Ground, No-Till and Plasti
culture Systems, M. Orzolek,
Penn State, $4,000, to evaluate the
effect of raised beds, two different
plastic mulches and drip irrigation
on pumpkin yields and quality, to
evaluate the effect of a no-till sys
tem (pumpkins transplanted into
annual ryegrass) with drip irriga
tion on pumpkin yields and quali
ty, and to evaluate for comparison
the effect of a conventional bare
ground producdon system with
drip irrigation on pumpkin yields
and quality.
• Nonchemical Weed and Insect
Management in Cabbage, M. Or
zolak, Penn State, $3,000, to com
pare white clover, annual rye
grass, a mixture (2 pounds clover
and 5 pounds ryegrass per acre),
and bare ground treatments for
their effects on growth and yield
of cabbage transplants, and to
compare treatments for their ef
fects on insect damage and disease
incidence.
• Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potas
sium and Gypsum Rates for To
matoes as Related to Nutrient Bal
ance and Efficient Production, C.
Smith, Penn State University,
$4,000, to determine the most ef
fective rates of nitrogen and phos
phate for optimum growth and
yields, to determine if higher pot
ash rates are a major factor in re
stricting calcium uptake, to evalu
ate several rates of gypsum, and to
study the role of gypsum in in
creasing yields.
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have led to continuous increases
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• Development of Cold Toler
ant Tomatoes for Pennsylvania,
M. Foolad, Penn State, $3,000, to
evaluate chilling tolerance of ap
proximately 40 tomato genotypes
at different developmental stages,
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tween chilling tolerant and chill
ing sensitive genotypes, and to
• Junior Swine Show
November 9-11; Entry Deadline:
October 1; Entry Fees: Junior $l5.
• Stockdog Trials —November
14-17; Entry Deadline: October 1;
Entry Fees: See Premium List
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9-22
• Draft Horse Show Novem
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