Pa,‘Vegetable Industry Gives More Than $60,000 For Research
RICHFIELD (Juniata Co.)
Nineteen vegetable projects will
be funded jointly by the Pennsyl
vania Vegetable Growers Associ
ation (PVGA) and the Pennsyl
vania Vegetable Marketing and
Research Program.
The Marketing and Research
Program will be contributing
more than $30,000 to the vege
table research projects. PVGA
will contribute $25,000 toward
vegetable research and $5,000 to
ward small fruit research.
In the past 13 years, PVGA
has contributed $215,000 to vege
table and small fruit research.
This has been made possible sole
ly through the profits earned at
the association’s food booths at
the Farm Show and Ag Progress
Days.
The Vegetable Marketing and
Research Program is a statewide
checkoff program dedicated to
funding practical vegetable re
search and promoting Pennsylva
nia vegetables. All growers in the
state are required to pay an an
nual assessment of $25 plus $1.50
for each acre over 10 acres. The
vegetable projects chosen for
funding and their objectives are
as follows:
• Varietal resistance to blights
and fruit rots in processing toma
toes, Alan Mac Nab, Penn State,
$2,500, to evaluate processing to
mato varieties for ripening time
and tolerance to diseases.
• Breeding line resistance to
bacterial canker in processing to
mato, Alan Mac Nab, Penn State,
$2,500, to evaluate processing to
mato breeding lines for ripening
time and severity of bacterial
canker.
• Vegetable disease forecast
ing, Alan Mac Nab, Penn State,
$3,000, to operate a disease fore
cast network for Pennsylvania
vegetable producers and provide
to growers timely information on
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for disease development and
times when fungicide coverage is
most important. Also, to explore
a low-cost method to evaluate
new sources of environmental
data.
• Development of early blight
and late blight resistant tomatoes,
Majid Foolad, Penn State, $6,000,
to develop tomato cultivars resis
tant to early blight and late blight
and other tomato diseases in
Pennsylvania and which are
adapted to Pennsylvania condi
tions.
• Development of tomato cul
tivars with improved lycopene
and other fruit quality character
istics, Majid Foolad, Penn State,
$6,000, to develop processing and
fresh-market tomato cultivars
with enhanced fruit lycopene,
sugar, and vitamin contents and
to develop high-yielding tomato
cultivars adapted to Pennsylva
nia conditions.
• Optimizing plant population
and row spacing in processing to
matoes, Lowell Luft and Wesley
Martin, Brubaker Consulting
Group, $3,750, to determine the
effects that row spacing and
plant population has on the yield
and quality of processing toma
toes. The standard row spacing of
five-feet will be compared to nar
rower spacing at the same popu
lations to determine if yields in
crease without sacrificing quality.
• Processing tomato variety
trial, Lowell Luft and Wesley
Martin, Brubaker Consulting
Group, $5,000, to identify variet
ies that will consistently provide
high quality and yields under
eastern growing conditions.
• Snap bean insect manage
ment: alternatives to organophos
phates and carbamates, and de
veloping potato leafhopper
thresholds, Lee Stivers and Tom
Kuhar, Cornell University, and
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er, Penn State, $3,888, to evalu
ate nonorganophosphate and car
bamate insecticides for efficacy in
controlling potato leafhopper,
European com borer, and other
insect pests of snap beans. Also,
to assess the relative impact of
these insecticides on natural
enemy populations and to pro
vide supporting data for the re
finement of potato leafhopper
thresholds based on plant growth
stage and moisture stress.
• Replacing starter phospho
rus for early processing snap
beans, Thomas Bjorkman, Steve
Reiners, and Alan Taylor, Cor
nell University, $2,411, to de
termine to what extent Pennsyl
vania vegetable soils are
susceptible to potassium bicarbo
nate for releasing soil phospho
rus. Also, to determine whether
snap bean growth in cold Penn
sylvania soils is enhanced by
phosphate release and to provide
Pennsylvania snap bean growers
with a tool for managing phos
phorus use, and specific guidance
on its suitability for various re
gions within Pennsylvania.
• Breeding for white mold re
sistance in snap beans, Phillip D.
Griffiths, Cornell University,
$2,900, to advance crosses made
between lines showing the highest
levels of white mold resistance
and commercial types to the F 4
generation, and field test all lines
generated for white mold resis
tance during summer 2001. Also,
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to screen white mold resistant
field selections in the greenhouse,
and advance the generations with
further screens to determine re
sistant types with good horticul
tural characteristics.
• Comparison of 1 1 1
fertilizer versus 1 3 1 fertil
izer banded at planting time for
processing snap beans, Jeff Mizer
and Michael Orzolek, Penn State,
$609, to determine whether ap
plication of excessive amounts of
phosphorus causes luxury con
sumption by the beans, resulting
in weak-rooted plants that can
not reach their full yield poten
tial. Also, to reduce both nitrogen
and phosphorus applications
rates so as to reduce the amounts
of nitrates and phosphates that
enter the Susquehanna River and
eventually the Chesapeake Bay.
• Weed control in sweet com:
alternatives to Atrazine, includ
ing Buctril, Michael Orzolek,
Penn State, $4,000, to evaluate
both experimental and nonla
beled herbicides which may be
acceptable alternatives to atrzine
application in sweet com. Also,
to develop date which may help
support a Section 18 labels for
new experimental herbicides in
sweet com for Pennsylvania
growers.
• Monitoring thermal per
formance in “grow tunnel” im
provements in nonfossil fuel
heated greenhouses used for win
ter greens and herb production,
Stephen and Joshua Moore,
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the Mullinix Bros. Cattail Connection on A.E. Mullinix Road.
Beginning with a feedlot tour at 1 p.m., the program includes
presentations by Doug Velisek on “N” Sync; Chris Mullinix on
cattle selection; John Meents, American Hereford Association
(AHA) representative, on the AHA and Whole Herd Update;
and Gene Mullinix on culling. A herd and pasture tour will close
out the afternoon activities. The field day program will conclude
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• Pumpkin disease control
and yield improvement using sili
con nutrition, Joseph Heckman
and others, Rutgers University,
$3,000, to determine the effec
tiveness of soil-applied silicon for
control of diseases on pumpkin.
Also, to determine pumpkin yield
response to silicon fertilization
and to conduct leaf tissue analy
sis and soil tests to monitor the
effects of silicon treatment.
• Tomato, pepper, and musk
melon production in commercial
sized high tunnels, William La
ment and Michael Orzolek, Penn
State, $6,000, to construct two
commercial-size high tunnels
(17-foot by 96-foot) at the Penn
State High Tunnel Research and
Education Research Facility lo
cated at the Horticulture Farm at
Rockspring to determine both the
production and economics of
growing tomatoes, peppers, and
muskmelons for the early market
in commercial-size high tunnels
and how the information col
lected correlates to smaller re
search size tunnels. The ability to
conduct crop production research
in commercial-size high tunnels
will ensure that the information
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