Cultivars
List of cultivars being studied
Results
Japanese Beetles Facilitate Feeding by Green June Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) on Ripening Grapes
(In Environmental Entomology, Volume 37, Number 2, April, 2008)
Blackberry packaging study
Cultivar trial, Princeton; Variety
and training systems evaluation
(In 2004 Fruit and Vegetable Crops Research Report, PR-504)
Cultivar trials - Quicksand
Postharvest storage
Disease survey
Site Selection for Thornless
Blackberries Based on Past Kentucky
Low Temperature Weather Data
Fruit
Objectives:
- Explore the feasibility of growing blueberries under an organic system and to develop best management practices to achieve the best economic results.
- Explore the feasibility of developing several value-added organic blueberry products, specifically dried and frozen forms of the product.
- Develop cost/benefit estimates in relation to selected jams and other baked goods using local organic blueberries, specifically to determine if there exists a premium associated with the local market value.
- Evaluate several new high yielding strawberry cultivars for yield, fruit quality, plant vigor and survival in a plasticulture production system.
- Determine if any of these cultivars are profitable using this system for Kentucky growers.
- Identify trophic connections between slugs and generalist predator communities in strawberry crops.
- Evaluate the capacity of predator communities at reducing slug damage to strawberry plants.
- Examine the potential for microbial disease transmission by the movement of mollusks through strawberries.
- Evaluate Kentucky-adapted grape varieties for resistance to defoliation by June beetle; identify resistance characteristics and quantify defoliation by cultivar impact on growth and vigor of young vines, fruit quality, and yield.Evaluate phenological resistance (early- or late-ripening varieties) as management strategy for reducing Japanese beetle/green June beetle direct damage to fruits.Clarify seasonal timing and biology of green June beetle/Japanese beetle as grape pests in Kentucky.
Optimizing organic production of select small fruits using high tunnels
Establish an organically managed small fruit orchard at the UK Horticulture Research Farm. The orchard will be planted in two adjacent locations; one uncovered, and one under an unheated high tunnel structure.Assess if organic management techniques can result in high yielding, quality, insect and disease-free plants.Prepare Extension and research publications detailing the production systems used in this orchard.This site was last updated on May 8, 2008
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The development of organic blueberry production and value-added products
Plasticulture strawberry production
Evaluating the role of generalist predators in reducing damage and disease transmission by slugs in strawberry crops
Sustainable management for Japanese and green June beetles impacting grape production