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Project reports

on-farm trial
On-farm demonstration trial in Iowa, 2021.

 

 

During 2021, on-farm cooperators were interviewed to gather their impressions of the use of mesotunnels in cucurbit crops. The technical report of the 2021 cooperators interviews covers our findings: download here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


UKY's student Katie Fiske's presentation at the 2021 Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Conference on mesotunnels:

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You can download the presentation in PDF format here.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Here you can find the 2021 Iowa on-farm trials report, by Dr. Ajay Nair (ISU) - PDF file.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Dr. Mark Gleason's presentation on Great Plains Growers Conference, 2021 (PDF).

 

 

 

 

 


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The OREI Cucurbit Crops Project Year 1 Whole Team and Advisory Panel/Cooperative Grower Surveys - 2020 TECHNICAL REPORT (PDF)

 

 

 


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Summary of the 2020 field trial results - by Dr. Mark Gleason.

 

 

 

 

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Summary of the on-farm trials from Iowa (2020): "Effect of Protek net on cucurbit crop growth and microclimate management" - by Dr. Ajay Nair.

 

 

 


mesotunnel

 

 

Technical report: "Cucurbit growers' perceptions of mesotunnel production systems" (2020) - by Dr. Lois Morton, Nieyan Cheng, and Kaitlin Diggins.

 

 

 

 


aerial view of squash plot

 

 

 

 

Highlights of season 2020: an extract from the Oct-6th virtual meeting (preliminary results and open discussion with Advisory Panel) (PDF).

 

 

 

 

 


Project's objectives

 

 

The Project: Resilient systems for Sustainable Management of Cucurbit Crops 

A brief look at the research project's primary goals and objectives.