Project Overview
ENE04-086
Project Type: Professional Development Program
Funds awarded in 2004: $120,000.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2006
Region: Northeast
State: New York
Project Leader:
Dr. Anusuya Rangarajan
Cornell University
Co-Leaders:
Dr. Vern Grubinger
University of Vermont
Annual Reports
Commodities
- Agronomic: corn, potatoes
- Fruits: melons
- Vegetables: beans, beets, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucurbits, eggplant, garlic, greens (leafy), lentils, onions, parsnips, peas (culinary), peppers, rutabagas, sweet corn, tomatoes, turnips, brussel sprouts
Practices
- Crop Production: conservation tillage
- Education and Training: demonstration, networking, on-farm/ranch research, workshop
- Farm Business Management: budgets/cost and returns, cooperatives, marketing management
- Pest Management: biological control, biorational pesticides, botanical pesticides, compost extracts, cultural control, disease vectors, economic threshold, field monitoring/scouting, flame, mulches - killed, mulches - living, mating disruption, physical control, mulching - plastic, cultivation, row covers (for pests), mulching - vegetative, weed ecology
- Production Systems: agroecosystems
- Soil Management: earthworms, green manures, organic matter, soil analysis, soil quality/health
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