2023 Research Projects
Jim Jasinski, Ashley Leach, Frank Becker – Automated Insect Trap Pilot Test – $3,250.00
Ashley Leach – Revisiting a classic pest complex: Thrips control in OH pepper production – $3,500.00
Francesca Rotondo, Sally A. Miller and Melanie Lewis Ivey – Vegetable and Small Fruit Disease Diagnosis – $5,500.00
Mike Gastier – 2023 Ohio Sw2 Sweet Corn Evaluation – $3,200.00
Sally Miller and Francesca Rotondo – Seed and Seedling Treatments to Manage Bacterial Diseases in Peppers – Part II – $8,000.00
2022 Research Projects
Rafiq Islam, Arif Rahman, and Brad Bergefurd—Oxifertigation to improve soil health and sustain tomato yield and quality—$4,030.00
Melanie Lewis Ivey—Disease Management Strategies for an Emerging Disease of Strawberry in Ohio—$6,500
Doug Doohan, Allison Robinson & Cathy Herms—Insecticides for Control of Onion Thrips in Direct‐Seeded Green Onions in Ohio Muck Soils—$5,000
Doug Doohan, Allison Robinson & Cathy Herms – Herbicides for the Control of Ladysthumb & Common Purslane in Ohio Muck Soils—$5,000
Doug Doohan & Allison Robinson—QuinStar & Alternatives to Gramoxone for Perennial Weed Control in Berries & Apples—$6,000
Michael Gastier—2022 Ohio Sh2 Sweet Corn Evaluation—$3,500
Ashley Leach—Monitoring and Managing Flea Beetles in Crucifers: Identifying the major players and methods to reduce pest populations—$2,338
Ashley Leach—Improving vegetable pest control: use of surfactant to improve efficacy of insecticide programming in alliums and crucifers—$2,139
Francesca Rotondo, Sally A. Miller and Melanie Lewis Ivey—Vegetable and Small Fruit Disease Diagnosis – $5,000
Sally A. Miller and Francesca Rotondo—Seed and Seedling Treatments to Manage Bacterial Spot in Peppers—$8,000
2021 Research Projects
Brad Bergefurd, Gary Gao, M.A. Rahman, and Rafiq Islam: Nano iron (Fe) fertilization on growth, yield, and quality of processing tomatoes under drip-irrigated plasticulture – $4,478
Doug Doohan & Allison Robinson: Herbicides for perennial weed control in raspberry – $5,000
Doug Doohan & Allison Robinson: Weed control methods in direct seeded onion – $5,000
Doug Doohan, Allison Robinson & Catherine Herms: Biology and control of Pennsylvania smartweed and ladysthumb – $5,000
Doug Doohan, Allison Robinson & Catherine Herms: Insecticides for Control of Onion Thrips in Direct‐Seeded Green Onions – $5,000
Jim Jasinski, Chia-Hua Lin: Quantifying Pollinator Benefits of Mustard Cover Crops – $1,855
Melanie Lewis Ivey: Early Detection of Downy Mildew in Blackberry – $4,500
Mike Gastier: 2021 Ohio Sh2 Sweet Corn Evaluation – $3,500
Sally Miller: Improved Management of Anthracnose in Peppers – $5,000
Sally Miller: Efficacy of Fungicides Against Powdery Mildew in Pumpkins – $5,000
Sally Miller and Melanie Lewis Ivey: Vegetable and Small Fruit Disease Diagnosis – $4,000
Tim McDermott & Wendy Klooster: Establishment of Organic Blueberry Container Production System for Long-Term Evaluation of Cost Viability – $2,636.48
2020 Research Projects
Doug Doohan & Allison Robinson: Herbicides for Perennial Weed Control in Raspberry – $4,000
Doug Doohan & Allison Robinson: New Weed Control Methods for Leafy Greens – $4,000
Doug Doohan & Allison Robinson: Biology and Control of Pennsylvania Smartweed – $4,000
Jim Jasinski: Incorporating On-Farm Trials to Expand the Use of Mustard Cover Crops as Bio fumigants to Reduce Pumpkin Diseases – $2,284
Michael Gastier: 2020 Ohio Sh2 Sweet Corn Evaluation – $3,500
Sally Miller: Integrated Management of Phytophthora Blight Using Grafted Peppers and Fungicides – $4,500
Sally Miller: Management of Plectosporium Blight of Pumpkins – $4,000
Sally Miller & Melanie Lewis Ivey: Vegetable and Small Fruit Disease Diagnosis – $4,000
Tim McDermott & Wendy Klooster: Establishment of Organic Blueberry Container Production System for Long-Term Evaluation of Cost Viability – $2,581
Celeste Welty: Squash vine borer management in zucchini by a trap crop-$2,200
2019 Research Reports
Brad Bergefurd and Rafiq Islam: Salicylic acid effects on economic production of pumpkin and tomatoes—$2,000
Doug Doohan & Chengsong Hu: New weed control methods in for leafy green brassicas—$3,000
Michael Gastier: 2019 Ohio Sh2 Sweet Corn Evaluation—$3,500
Jim Jasinski : Using Mustard Cover Crops as a Biofumigant to Reduce Plectosporium (White Speck) in Pumpkin—$875
Elizabeth Long: Evaluating a novel insecticide rotation strategy against adult carrot weevil using conventional and electrostatic sprayer technology—$3,178
Sally Miller: Management of Plectosporium Blight of Pumpkins—$4,000
Sally Miller: Integrated Management of Phytophtora Blight Using Grafting Peppers and Fungicides—$4,500
Sally A. Miller and Melanie Lewis Ivey: Vegetable and Small Fruit Disease Diagnosis—$4,000
Celeste Welty & Jim Jasinski: Streamlined monitoring for spotted wing Drosophila and brown mamorated stink bug—$3,070
2018 Research Reports
Brad Bergefurd & Sally Miller: Pumpkin germplam production & disease resistance evaluation—$3,000.00
Doug Doohan & Chengsong Hu: New weed control methods in green onion—$7,000.00
Doug Doohan, Cathy Herms, Gerald Reid, & Roger Downer: Evaluation of new cultivation equipment for organic vegetable farming—$3,000.00
Doug Doohan & Chengsong Hu: New weed control methods for leafy green brassicas-$3,000.00
Michael Gastier: 2018 Ohio Sh2 Sweet Corn Evaluation—$3,500.00
Jim Jasinski, Celeste Welty, Elizabeth Long: Filling in the gaps for the invasive pest monitoring network—$1,824.00
Melanie Lewis Ivey: Using Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation for Management of Black Root Rot Disease of Strawberries—$3,826.00
Melanie Lewis Ivey: Management of Downy Mildew of Blackberry—$1,963.00
Melanie Lewis Ivey and Celeste Welty: Ohio Fruit News—$2,184.00
Elizabeth Long: Evaluating the efficacy of novel insecticides against adult carrot weevil using conventional and electrostatic sprayer (ESP) technology – $2,778.00
Sally A. Miller and Melanie Lewis Ivey: Vegetable and Small Fruit Disease Diagnosis—$4,000.00
Sally A. Miller: Identifying tomato rootstocks resistant to key soilborne diseases in Ohio high tunnels—$2,500.00
Sally A. Miller: Developing robust diagnostic methods for key soilborne diseases in Ohio high tunnels —$3,500.00
Sally A. Miller: Screening bell and specialty pepper varieties for resistance to bacterial speck and bacterial canker—$3,500.00
2017 Research Reports
Miller, Sally & Lewis Ivey, Melanie: Vegetable and Small Fruit Disease Diagnosis
Doohan, Doug: New tools for weed control in vegetable crops
Welty, Celeste; Jasinski, Jim; Long, Elizabeth: Improved monitoring network for new invasive insect pests in Ohio
Gastier, Mike: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn evaluation
Miller, Sally: Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation to Manage Plant Pathogens in Muck Soils
Long, Elizabeth: Monitoring the arrival and source of pepper weevil using pheromone-baited sticky traps
Bergefurd, Brad: Pumpkin germplasm production & disease resistance evaluations
Miller, Sally: Development of Fungicide Programs for Phytophthora Blight of Winter Squash
Lewis Ivey, Melanie: Emerging Soilborne Diseases in Plasticulture Strawberry Production
Miller, Sally: Evaluation of Pumpkin Cultivars for Resistance to Powdery Mildew and Determination of Efficacy of Fungicides in Multiple Locations
Lewis Ivey, Melanie; Welty Celeste; Gao Gary; Bergefurd, Brad: Increasing the Research Impacts of Integrated Pest Management in Small Fruits in Ohio
Kleinhenz, Matt: Specialty Potato Varieties for Ohio Growers (Conventional, Organic)
Gahler, Allen: Northern Ohio Pepper Evaluation
Miller, Sally: Alternaria Management in Cauliflower
2016 Research Reports
Doohan, Doug: New tools for weed control in vegetable crops – $7,500
Doohan, Doug: Impact of organic approach to soil management on soils, crop growth and weed control – $2,500
Gahler, Allen: Northern Ohio Pepper Evaluation – $4,000
Gastier, Mike: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluation – $4,000
Kleinhenz, Matt: Tillage, Cover Crop, and Grafting Effects on Tomato and Pepper Crops and Soils – $4,500
Long, Elizabeth: Evaluating the Emergence and Distribution of Carrot Weevils in Ohio Parsley Fields – $2,603
McFarland, Mike: Squash Vine Borer Management by Trap Cropping and Insecticides – $1,920
Miller, Sally: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $2,000
Miller, Sally: Development of Fungicide Programs for Phytophthora Blight of Summer Squash – $4,000
Miller, Sally: Sanitizing Heat Treatment to Remove Bacterial Pathogens from Vegetable Seeds Compatible with Pelleting and/or Seed-Applied Pesticides – $4,000
Miller, Sally: Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation to Manage Plant Pathogens in Muck Soils – $4,000
2015 Research Reports
Brad Bergefurd: Pumpkin germplasm production and quality evaluations and screening for resistance to powdery mildew, downy mildew, angular leaf spot, anthracnose and white speck – $2,000
Brad Bergefurd: Matted Row and Plasticulture Strawberry Production Winter Protection and Management, Biofumigant and Cultivar Evaluations – $4,500
Doug Doohan: New tools for weed control in vegetable crops – $7,500
Allen Gahler: Northern Ohio Pepper Evaluation – $4,000
Matt Kleinhenz: Tillage and Cover Crop Effects on Tomato and Pepper Crops and Soils – $3,000
Jim Jasinski: Comprehensive Spotted Wing Drosophila Monitoring and Management Program – $2,580
Sally Miller: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $2,000
Sally Miller: Determination of Resistance to Strobiliurin Fungicides in Alternaria spp. Causing Early Bight in Tomato and Potato Brown Leaf Spot in Potato – $4,000
Sally Miller: Evaluation of Alternative Treatments to Manage Bacterial Diseases in Muck Vegetable Crops – $4,000
2014 Research Reports
Brad Bergefurd: Evaluation of Fresh Market Tomato Nitrogen and Potassium Fertigation Ratios, Grafted Plants and Variety Selection on Physiological Disorder, Yield and Fruit Quality Attributes – $4,500
Brad Bergefurd: Pumpkin Germplasm Production and Quality Evaluations & Screening for Resistance to Powdery Mildew, Downy Mildew, Angular Leafspot, Anthracnose, and White Speck
– $2,000
Brad Bergefurd: Matted Row and Plasticulture Strawberry Production Winter Protection & Management, Biofumigant and Cultivar Evaluations – $4,500
Doug Doohan: Optimization of a 2,4-D Detection System for Long-Term Field Deployment – $7,200
Allen Gahler: Northern Ohio Pepper Evaluation – $4,000
Jim Jasinski: Evaluating Pesticide Effects on Squash Bees in Cucurbits – $2,500
Jim Jasinski: Maintaining a Rapid Reaction Monitoring Team for Invasive Species – $4,050
Sally Miller: Optimizing Management of Cucumber Downy Mildew – $6,000
Sally Miller: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $2,000
Sally Miller: Improved Resistance in Pepper and Squash to Phytophthera capsici through Grafting – $4,000
2013 Research Reports
Brad Bergefurd: Evaluation of Fresh Market Tomato Nitrogen and Potassium fertigation ratios, grafted plants and variety selection on physiological disorder, yield and fruit quality attributes – $4,005
Brad Bergefurd: Plasticulture Strawberry Season and Market Extension Systems and Cultivar Evaluation Field Research Studies – $4,005
Doug Doohan, Joshua Blakeslee: Optimization of a mobile detector for 2,4-D and dicamba drift – $6,408
Jim Jasinski, Celeste Welty: Establishing a Rapid Reaction Monitoring Team for Invasive Species – $3,560
Mark Bennett: Effect of Plant Growth Regulators Using Three Delivery Systems on Fresh Market Peppers – $1,780
Mark Koenig: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluation – $3,115
Matt Kleinhenz: Identifying and Correcting Vegetable Soil Fertility Problems in Ohio – $3,560
Melanie Lewis Ivey, Xiulan Xu, Sally A. Miller: Identifying effective seed treatments to manage plant and human pathogens on tomato. – $3,471
Sally A. Miller: Identification and Management of Bacterial Leaf Spot of Parsley – Phase 2– $4,361
Sally A. Miller, Fulya Baysal-Gurel: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $1,780
Sally A. Miller, Fulya Baysal-Gurel: Optimizing management of cucumber downy mildew to currently used fungicides and production methods – $3,560
Sally A. Miller, Fulya Baysal-Gurel: Evaluation of fungicides and biorational products for control of powdery mildew in greenhouse/high tunnel tomato production – $1,780
Sally A. Miller, Fulya Baysal-Gurel: Developing strategies for organic cucurbit disease management – $2,670
2012 Research Reports
Brad Bergefurd: Evaluation of Fresh Market Tomato Nitrogen and Potassium fertigation ratios, grafted plants and variety selection on physiological disorder, yield and fruit quality attributes – $4,000
Brad Bergefurd: Strawberry Production Season and Market Extension Systems – $4,000
Doug Doohan: Finding an Alternative for Kerb, for Weed Control in Lettuce – $2,000
Doug Doohan: Herbicides for New Weed Problem– $3,000
Emily Linkous, Celeste Welty: Integrating biological control and chemical control for cole crop pest management – $2,500
Gary Gao: Evaluation of Cold-Hardy Cultivars and Season-Extension Methods of Blackberries for Improved Profitability – $4,000
Jim Jasinski, Celeste Welty: Continued Monitoring for the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug – $2,400
Mark Koenig: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluation – $4,000
Matt Hofelich, Elaine Grassbaugh: New Pepper Cultivar Releases for 2012 – $3,200
Melanie Lewis Ivey, Sally Miller, Xiulan Xu: Identifying effective seed treatment to manage plant and human pathogens on pumpkin and tomato – $4,250
Robert Precheur: Pumpkin Germplasm Evaluation and Screening for Resistance to Powdery Mildew, Downy Mildew, Angular Leaf Spot, Anthracnose and White Speck – $3,000
Sally Miller: Evaluation of fungicides and biorational products for control of Pythium and Rhizoctonia damping off in greenhouse vegetable production – $3,000
Sally Miller: Identification and Management of Bacterial Leaf Spot of Parsley – $3,000
Sally Miller: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $2,000
2011 Research Reports
Doug Doohan: Finding an Alternative for Kerb, for Weed Control in Lettuce – $2,000
Doug Doohan: Herbicides for New Weed Problem – $3,000
Doug Doohan: Late Season Annual Grass Control in Sweet Corn – $2,000
Mark Bennett, Elaine Grassbaugh: Use of Biological Treatments for Improved Crop Establishment in Beans – $3,000
Mark Bennett, Elaine Grassbaugh: Use of Sumagic and PEG 8000 (polyethylene glycol) to Control Pepper Transplant Height and Enhance Crop Production – $3,000
Matt Hofelich, Elaine Grassbaugh, Mark Koenig: New Pepper Cultivar Releases for 2011 – $3,000
Jim Jasinski, Sally Miller, Melanie Lewis Ivey, Bob Precheur: Controlling Angular Leaf Spot on pumpkin using seed treatment and foliar applications – $2,506
Jim Jasinski, Celeste Welty: Determining the distribution of a new invasive pest, the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, in key vegetable and small fruit crops – $3,000
Matt Kleinhenz: Grafted Vegetable Plants as a viable Product and Production Tool in Ohio – $4,500
Matt Kleinhenz: Optimizing Ohio Cucumber and Cilantro Nutrient Management – $4,300
Mark Koenig: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluation – $4,500
Sally Miller: Optimizing management of cucumber downy mildew to currently used fungicides – $4,000
Sally Miller: Distribution, Survival and Management of Xanthomonas gardneri Causing Bacterial Spot in Tomatoes – $4,000
Sally Miller: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $2,000
Robert Precheur: Pumpkin Germplasm Evaluation and Screening for Resistance to Powdery Mildew, Downy Mildew, Angular Leaf Spot, Anthracnose and White Speck – $3,000
Celeste Welty, Emily Linkous: Developing parasitoid enhancement as a component of cabbage crop management – $2,500
2010 Research Reports
Doug Doohan: New herbicides for brambles – $3,000
Doug Doohan: Weed control in leafy greens and in green onions – $4,000
Elaine Grassbaugh: New vegetable cultivar releases for 2009 – $3,000
Jim Jasinski: Validating field rate fungicide insensitivity to powdery mildew on pumpkin – $2,000
Matt Kleinhenz: Grafting to improve tomato, cucumber, melon and pepper production – $4,000
Mark Koenig: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluation – $4,000
Sally Miller: Efficacy of injected disinfectants in killing zoonotic pathogens and zoospores of plant pathogens in irrigation water – $4,000
Sally Miller: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $2,000
Sally Miller: Use of cucumber varieties partially resistant to downy mildew to decrease fungicide application costs – $3,500
Bob Precheur: Pepper Germplasm Evaluation – $1,000
Bob Precheur: Pumpkin germplasm evaluation and screening for resistance to powdery mildew, downy mildew, angular leaf spot, Anthracnose, and white speck – $3,000
Celeste Welty: Managing insecticide resistance in corn earworm on sweet corn – $1,000
Shawn Wright: Plasticulture strawberry production systems – $3,500
2009 Research Reports
Jim Jasinski: Validating field rate fungicide insensitivity to powdery mildew on pumpkins – $2,000
Celeste Welty: Managing insecticide resistance in corn earworm on sweet corn – $1,000
Sally Miller: Efficacy of injected disinfectants in killing zoonotic pathogens and zoospores of plant pathogens in irrigation water – $4,000
Doug Doohan: Weed Control in Leafy Greens and in Green Onions – $4,000
Sally Miller: Use of cucumber varieties partially resistant to downy mildew to decrease fungicide application costs – $3,500
Elaine Grassbaugh: New Vegetable Cultivar Releases for 2009 – $3,000
Mark Koenig: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluation – $4,000
Sally Miller: Vegetable Disease Diagnosis – $2,000
Doug Doohan: New Herbicides for Brambles – $3,000
Elaine Grassbaugh: A Program to Assist Ohio Vegetable Growers with Questions Regarding Production, Cultural Practices, and Other Items of Importance to Vegetable Producers – $2,000
Bob Precheur: Pumpkin germplasm evaluation and screening for resistance to powdery mildew, downy mildew, angular leaf spot, Anthracnose, and white speck – $3,000
Matt Kleinhenz: Grafting to Improve Tomato, Cucumber, Melon, and Pepper Production – $4,000
Bob Precheur: Pepper Germplasm Evaluation – $1,000
Shawn Wright: Plasticulture strawberry production systems – $3,500
2008 Research Reports
Mark Bennett: Use of Biological Treatments for Disease Control in Sweet Corn – $3,500
Brad Bergefurd: Fresh Market Vegetable Variety Trials – $3,000
Maurus Brown: Highbush Blueberry Rejuvenation and Pruning Study – $1,000
Doug Doohan: New Herbicides for Brambles -$2,150
Doug Doohan: Weed Control in Leafy Greens and in Green Onions – $4,000
Elaine Grassbaugh: New Vegetable Cultivar Releases for 2008 – $3,000
Elaine Grassbaugh: A Program to Assist Ohio Vegetable Growers with Questions Regarding Production, Cultural Practices, and Other Items of Importance to Vegetable Producers – Holdover from 2007
Gerald Holmes: Forecasting long-distance movement of cucurbit downy mildew: a decisionmaking tool for Ohio growers – $2,800
Jim Jasinski: Corn Earworm Management Trial for Fresh Market Sweet Corn – $2,500
Jim Jasinski: Powdery mildew fungicide insensitivity evaluations on Pumpkin – $2,050
Matt Kleinhenz: Grafting to Improve Field and High Tunnel Tomato Production – $4,000
Mark Koenig: Northern Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluation – $3,000
Sally Miller: Enhancing Plant Disease Diagnostics at the Local Level – $3,000
Bob Precheur: Pepper Germplasm Evaluation – $1,000
Bob Precheur: Pumpkin Germplasm Evaluation and Screening for Resistance to Powdery Mildew, Downy Mildew, Angular Leaf Spot, Anthracnose and White Speck (Microdochium Blight) – $3,000
Landon Rhodes: Field Evaluation of Microdochium-resistant Pumpkins – Year 3 – $2,000