New high tunnel tomato-cut flower fact sheet
A new fact sheet, Rotating Cut Flowers Within a Tomato High Tunnel Production System (CCD-FS-23), is now available on the Center for Crop Diversification website.
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Vegetable Variety Survey
University of Kentucky researchers are seeking voluntary input from
individuals or businesses producing vegetables and/or vegetable
transplants. This 5-minute industry survey aims to identify research and
UK, UF Professors Team Up
The Kentucky Wildcats and the Florida Gators have been meeting on the football field since 1917, and the teams met again on October 2 at the University of Kentucky’s Kroger Field.
Podcast Features KY Extension Agent, Common Earth Gardens
The Vegetable Beet Podcast from the Great Lakes Vegetable Producers Network featured Jefferson County Horticulture Extension Agent Bethany Pratt, and Common Earth Gardens Executive
Greenhouse Cucumber Research Could Help Farmers Diversify
The University of Kentucky Controlled Environment Horticulture Research Unit, the Owen Lab, is in the midst of a two-year study to evaluate cucumber varieties for greenhouse production.
Department of Hort, Arq Collaborate on Research
Through a public-private research collaboration, the University of Kentucky Department of Horticulture and Arq, a technology company based in London, United Kingdom, with offices in Lexington, and its first
UK Conducts Coleus Variety Trials
In a greenhouse at the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Horticultural Research Farm, 111 cultivars of coleus grew lush this spring under the careful watch of assistant horticulture professor Garrett Owen,
Leafy Greens Production under Protected Culture Survey
University of Kentucky researchers are seeking voluntary input from individuals or businesses producing leafy greens (lettuce, kale, spinach, etc.) under protected culture.
Students Awarded Sustainability Summer Research Fellowships
Agricultural and Medical Biotechnology undergraduate students Courtney Shields (Principal Investigator, Kendall Corbin), Bridget Bolt (Principal Investigator, Carlos Rodriguez Lopez), and Gretchen
Raihan Receives Tekrony Travel Fellowship
IPSS graduate student from Horticulture, Mr. Tajbir Raihan, has
received one of the 2021 Dennis
Tekrony Graduate Student Travel
Fellowship in Seed Biology Awards