The revision of the Integrated Crop and Pest Management Guidelines for Commercial Vegetable Production was made possible by USDA project 97-EPMP-1-0127 funded by the Northeast IPM Grants Program.
Poster Session 31— Vegetable Crops Management-Cropping Systems 2 29 July 2006, 1:15–2:00 p.m.
Vegetable Crops
Vegetable Crops
Since its domestication in the Levant more than 10,000 years ago, faba bean ( Vicia faba ) has been an important grain and vegetable crop for global cuisines and cultures ( Caracuta et al. 2015 ; Flint-Hamilton 1999 ). Faba bean is popular in
Swede midge ( Contarinia nasturtii ), a small (∼1/16 inch) galling fly ( Fig. 1 ), is a challenging invasive pest of cruciferous (Brassicaceae) vegetable crops in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. This pest severely reduces
Many vegetable growers prefer to stagger harvest over the growing season. In the northeastern United States, however, the growing season is too short to follow early-harvested cool-season crops with a second vegetable crop, but long enough that
three cool-season vegetable crops per year, with lettuce ( Lactuca sativa ) being the dominant crop in both value and acreage ( Monterey County Agricultural Commission, 2012 ). Vegetable production fields often receive N fertilizer applications in excess
The research reviewed here represents the majority of the information available on transplant age to date. When the results of these studies are distilled down to the “ideal” transplant age for setting of a specific crop, we generally arrive at the recommendations found in the 1962 edition of Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers. The conflicting results in the literature on transplant age may be due to the different environmental and cultural conditions that the plants were exposed to, both in the greenhouse and in the field. The studies did reveal that the transplant age window for certain crops might be wider than previously thought. Older transplants generally result in earlier yields while younger transplants will produce comparable yields, but take longer to do so. Our modern cultivars, improved production systems, and technical expertise enable us to produce high yields regardless of transplant age. The data, in general, support the view that if a vegetable grower requires resets after an catastrophic establishment failure (freeze, flood, etc.), they need not fear the older plants usually on hand at the transplant production facility.
strategies to improve irrigation efficiency in vegetable crop production. We refer to recently published literature for in-depth analyses on the physiology and molecular biology of WUE ( Hsiao et al., 2007 ; Yoo et al., 2009 ). Efficiency in the context of