Grower Research and Education Grants- topics
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2002 Projects
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- Colorado Garlic: Expanding Markets Through Improved Cold Storage Methods
- Application of Crop Modeling for Sustainable Grape Production (Year 1 of 3)
- Enhancing the Production of Certified Strawberry Nursery Stocks in the San Luis Valley (Year 1 of 2)
- Optimizing the Production of Peppers and Tomatoes with Saline Water Using Subsurface Drip Irrigation
- Specialty Crop Development Plan of the Chimney Rock Farm
- Controlling Weeds Using Propane Generated Flame and Steam Treatments in Specialty Crop and Non-Croplands
- Hop Variety Test in Western Colorado
- Biology and Management of Sap Beetle in Sweet Corn
- Organic Sweet Potato, Heirloom Curcurbit Seed, and Blackberry Production
- Improving the Processing and Marketing of the Mira Sol Chile Pepper
- Production and Marketing of Garbanzo Beans
- Use of On-farm Cover-crops for Fertility in Organic Fruit Production (Year 1 of 3)
- Organic Fruit Marketing Research Project
2003 Projects
- Application of Crop Modeling for Sustainable Grape Production (Year 2 of 3)
- Hop Variety Test in Western Colorado (Year 2 of 2)
- Use of On-farm Cover-crops for Fertility in Organic Fruit Production (Year 2 of 3)
- Enhancing the Production of Certified Strawberry Nursery Stocks in the San Luis Valley (Year 2 of 2)
- Colorado Garlic: Improving Economics with a Spring Green Crop and Optimizing Summer Harvest Dates
- Growing Seedless Watermelon in the Arkansas Valley
- Drought Tolerance of Bedding Plants
- Integrated Management of Sap Beetles in Western Colorado Sweet Corn
- Winter Vegetable Crop Production and Marketing (Year 1 of 2)
- Field Hoop Houses
- Market Differentiation Project – Colorado Potatoes
- Economic Feasibility of Producing Hybrid Chile Transplants and Potted Ornamental Peppers
- Assessment of Antioxidant Properties of Colorado Apples Compared to Competing Production Regions
2004 Projects
- Application of Crop Modeling for Sustainable Grape Production (Year 3 of 3)
- Use of On-farm Cover-crops for Fertility in Organic Fruit Production (Year 3 of 3)
- Winter Vegetable Crop Production and Marketing (Year 2 of 2)
- Project to Determine Opportunities and Financial Feasibility of Value Added Products Derived from Colorado Peaches
- Japanese Beetle Eradication from Palisade, Colorado
- Increasing the Marketing Period for Melons Using Row Covers
- Economic Feasibility of Producing Heirloom Peppers and Specialty Pepper Transplants for Market and Seed Saving Activities
- Colorado Crop to Cuisine: Strengthening Market Relationships Between Chefs and Specialty Crop Producers
- Production Planning for Specialty Crops in the Five Major Farming Areas of Colorado
- Using Row Covers and Plasticulture to Produce Earlier Harvest and Greater Yields
- Marketing Colorado Wine Trails
- Winter Greenhouse Production of Specialty Greens: Profiting From Solar Heating (Year 1 of 3)
- Enhancing Potato Production by Improving the Soil Food Web (Year 1 of 3)
- Certified Naturally Grown Table Grapes, Raspberries, and Blackberry Production with Drip Irrigation
2005 Projects
- Production Feasibility Test for Lignonberries in Colorado
- Enhancing Potato Production by Improving the Soil Food Web (Year 2 of 3)
- Winter Greenhouse Production of Specialty Greens: Profiting From Solar Heating (Year 2 of 3)
- Research Trial of Heirloom and Hybrid Tomato Varieties in High Tunnel Production
- Pickling Cucumber Variety Trials
- Organic Strawberry Production: Testing Various Cultivars for Taste and Adaptibility to Western Colorado and Season Extension Techniques for Early Berry Production
- Colorado Fresh Produce Club
- Vine and Root Seed Production and Marketing
- Growing New and Unique Watermelons and Muskmelons in the Arkansas Valley
- Improving Intensive Production with Transplants
- Exotic and Specialty Melons for the Rocky Ford Area
- Enhancing Strawberry Nursery Productivity Using Early Season Plant and Soil Treatments
- Japanese Beetle Eradication from Palisade, Colorado
- Lettuce Variety Comparison, Insect Resistance Evaluations, and Organic Treatment Trials for Red Lettuce Aphid
2006 Projects
- Feasibility Study for Establishing, Growing, and Propagating Lycium barbarum (wolfberry)
- Feasibility of Primocane-Fruiting Blackberry Production
- Rocky Mountain Seed Exchange
- High Tunnel Heirloom Tomatoes
- Organic Garden Pea Seed Production
- Onion Project Demonstration Under Drip Irrigation
- High Tunnel Production and Market Research of Cut Flowers for Early Market and Sales
- Rude Becky’s Specialty Cut Flower High Tunnel Project
- Tunnel Modification for Production of Field Grown Organic Vegetables
- Alternative Techniques for Weed and Verticillium Control