Field Research Unit

315-789-3689
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FRU Vegetable Crops Shop

Primary responsibility is to assist project leaders with vegetable field research. Major crops that worked with here include sweet corn, snap beans, cabbage, cucumber, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, and lettuce to name a few.

- land preparations including plowing (moldboard, chisel), discing, etc.

- spraying - herbicide, fungicide, insecticide, etc

- planting - cover crops, permanent sod, transplanting, direct seeding, etc

- equipment maintenance, repair, modification, etc

- cultivation and sidedressing

- irrigation such as overhead hardhose traveler, overhead gun, drip irrigation, etc

maintain the station's weather data

Manager:

Steve Gordner

Staff:

Matt Christiansen

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