Current Projects
Effects of scale on sustainability of organic food and biofuel feedstock production
Comparing land, labor,
and energy-use efficiency at
different scales of organic mixed-use food and fuel crop production.
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KSU
Contacts: Duration: 2007-11 Funding: Evans-Allen |
Evaluating a beneficial insect lure (PredaLure®) in sweet corn
Testing
a commercial product intended to attract predatory flying insects such
as lady beetles and lacewings. |
KSU
Contacts: Duration: 2008-10 |
Mowing of primocane
blackberries to manage stinkbugs organically
Developing insect pest
management practices that allow certified organic production of
high-value primocane blackberries. |
KSU
Contacts: Duration: 2007-11 Funding: KDA, through USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant |
On-farm ethanol production from alternative feedstocks
Evaluating
of a new tool for
on-farm ethanol fuel
production from high-carbohydrate waste products
commonly available on small Kentucky
farms. |
Contacts: Duration: 2009-11 |
Organic demonstration plots
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Contacts: Duration: 2005- |
Selection of primocane fruiting blackberries using organic practices
Evaluating
suitability for organic production of
new blackberry varieties that bear fruit on current-season
cane. |
Contact: Duration: 2006- |
'Third Thursday Thing'
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Contact: Duration: 1997- |
Training extension personnel in
sustainable vegetable production
Training Cooperative
Extension personnel in sustainable vegetable production to increase
sustainably farmed and certified organic vegetable acreage in Tennessee
and Kentucky. |
KSU
Contacts: Duration: 2010-12 Funding: SARE |
Vegetable safety from farm to table
A
multi-state study examining producer, retailer
and consumer beliefs and practices that affect vegetable
safety. |
KSU
Contacts: Duration: 2007-11 Funding: USDA-CSREES |
Year-round vegetable production in a solar-heated high tunnel
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Contacts: Duration: 2005- |
Updated 06/18/10


Comparing land, labor,
and energy-use efficiency at
different scales of organic mixed-use food and fuel crop production.
Testing
a commercial product intended to attract predatory flying insects such
as lady beetles and lacewings.
Developing insect pest
management practices that allow certified organic production of
high-value primocane blackberries.
Evaluating
of a new tool for
on-farm ethanol fuel
production from high-carbohydrate waste products
commonly available on small Kentucky
farms.
Evaluating
suitability for organic production of
new blackberry varieties that bear fruit on current-season
cane.
Training Cooperative
Extension personnel in sustainable vegetable production to increase
sustainably farmed and certified organic vegetable acreage in Tennessee
and Kentucky.
A
multi-state study examining producer, retailer
and consumer beliefs and practices that affect vegetable
safety.

