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- Author or Editor: Ervin L. Denisen x
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Horticulture production management positions that have been filled by paraprofessionals for many years are gradually becoming available to better qualified men and women with horticultural degrees. Although some horticultural industries had long sought horticultural graduates for their management positions, others have only recently become aware of the larger profits available to them through fewer mistakes made by horticultural graduates. It is true that the young, inexperienced graduate from the various horticulture departments around the country will need to be trained in procedures peculiar to the company that has employed them. In fact, most successful enterprises insist on training their own personnel in their particular operational procedures. However, a basic knowledge of olericulture, ornamentals, pomology, plant growth and development, propagation, genetics, pathology, entomology, soils, nutrition, systematics, and all other segments of horticulture must be obtained through a good course of study in horticulture to prepare the graduate so that he or she may make the contribution needed by industry.
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‘Liberty’ is an attractive red raspberry (cover picture and Fig. 1) of excellent quality and hardy to winters of the north-central U.S. The clone has been indexed for freedom from known viruses by R. H. Converse, USDA Plant Pathologist, Oregon State University.
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‘Clare’ is a descendant of ‘Stoplight’, ‘Surecrop’, and ‘Sunrise’ (Fig. 1). Selection Ia. 7-75065, made in 1977, was named ‘Clare’ for my daughter Mary Clare and her grandmother, Clare Peyton. County Clare, Ireland, where I visited in 1985 exploring for breeding material, is an additional reason for the use of Clare.
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‘Mars’ is a vigorous and productive cultivar of strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) that appears to be adapted to machine harvesting and general production.
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The broad interest of the American public in the planting, growing, and maintenance of ornamental plants has increased the demands on Horticulture teaching throughout the nation. This clamor for more education and training in Horticulture prompted the Education Committee to develop a Symposium on Non-baccalaureate and Baccalaureate Programs in Horticultural Education. A balanced, well-rounded Symposium resulted and is based on the increased emphasis, not only on undergraduate education for the BS degree, but also on non-baccalaureate training in community colleges, vocational institutes, high schools, and short-courses.
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The occupations rilled by students receiving a BS degree in Horticulture are many and varied. Of particular interest is the changing nature of these occupations in recent years. At one time, production oriented curricula sufficed for the vast majority of horticulture students. Today’s occupations, however, require a student to have a broad background in such areas as business, management, economics, education, and sociology. It is not rare in today’s agricultural job market to find employers who may wish to hire a horticulturist, but may relegate his knowledge of horticulture to a position secondary to that of business knowledge, or some other specialty. The changing nature of employment from the predominantly production oriented jobs of some years ago has also resulted in pressures upon the academic world to constantly re-evaluate horticulture curricula and re-tailor it to a rapidly changing job market.
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The development of a narrow bed cultivation technique, concentrated ripening varieties, and a novel machine for harvesting is presented as a potential solution to problems of strawberry production for processing.
Results of tests in the 1969 season and the steps in the development of this system are described. The harvester itself can readily be mounted on certain conventionally designed garden tractors.
The cost of equipment required and results obtained are sufficiently encouraging to suggest that an economical minimum labor production system might again be possible in areas which have been forced to abandon strawberry production by rising costs.