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Specialty Crops

“Tabletop strawberries” are grown in substrate on narrow tables inside a hoop house.
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What does irrigation look like with this new and growing trend in specialty crop production?
With microirrigation, indoor production allows growers to avoid environmental challenges and produce more.
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With microirrigation, indoor production allows growers to avoid environmental challenges and produce more.
Utility poles can help predict spotted lanternfly behavior and trap them.
The spotted lanternfly feeds on 70+ plant species, a great concern to U.S. tree-fruit and grape growers.
Drip Fertigation
Free app helps determine amount of liquid fertilizer needed for drip irrigation systems.
Tomato plant irrigation
University of Minnesota Extension provides new online irrigation resource for vegetable growers.
Potato sales grow
Potato Expo panel agrees that sales momentum will likely continue through 2021.
Indoor-grown lettuce
Research to focus on preventing discoloration in indoor-grown lettuce and yield and leaf quality.
FFAR grant
The Seeding Solutions grant funds research at the University of Minnesota.
Hemp funding
The National Industrial Hemp Council becomes the first hemp organization officially recognized by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service as a MAP partner.