A Quarterly Newsletter for Friends of North Willamette Research and Extension Center
SPRING 2016
Getting Wells Ready for Summer—
no small job
New Freezer
Storage Room
One of NWREC’s priority projects this
winter has been the rebuilding of the
Center’s North Well, adjacent to the main
parking lot. The well, dating back to 1959,
is the farm’s best source of water—historically delivering up to 400 gallons/minute
of good and clean water. But, over the
years, the pumping capacity of the well
has diminished about in half.
Another big improvement this past winter
has been the addition of a freezer storage
room added to the North Barn complex.
The freezer room was constructed by the
IR-4 Program at NWREC and currently
houses two upright freezers used to store
plant and fruit samples being analyzed or
pesticide residues. A third freezer will be
added for increased capacity.
In late February, the well pump was
pulled and rebuilt. The well was scoped
with a camera to see what other problems might exist—and cleaned.
Schneider Well Service, St. Paul, did the
work. The total cost about $22,000.
Until adding the enclosed, climate-controlled freezer room, the IR-4 Program had
their freezers located in an outdoor, covered area. Warm summer weather put a
lot of stress on the cooling capacity of the
freezer and led to more frequent malfunctions and replacement of equipment.
Upon completion, the pumping capacity
for the well was restored to nearly the
original performance and will, hopefully,
be good for many more years of service.
The North Willamette Research and
Extension Center has a second well that
helps feed all the irrigation at the Center
and functions as our backup. The South
Well blew at the end of this past summer
and started sucking sand. Luckily, the irrigation season was about over. The South
Well has always been much more problematic—having a severe iron bacteria
issue and more limited capacity—even
when working well. The South Well has
had its pump rebuilt and has had to be
thoroughly cleaned and disinfected three
times in the past 17 years.
Flushing in progress at the South Well.
According to Geoff Lewis, Facilities
Manager at NWREC,“We’d really like to
cap this well and move to a new area to
get better water. But, digging a new well
is a huge project these days with water
rights, permits and the cost of infrastructure. And, the process can take a year or
more and might cost up to $150,000.”
As a result, NWREC re-serviced our South
Well—one more time—with the hope
that we will get another five years, while
we find the way to get a new well put in.
The South Well restoration was completed by April 1 at a cost of nearly $25,000.
“The new freezer storage room is a really
important improvement for our program,”
said Joe DeFrancesco, IR-4’s Field Center
Director at
NWREC.
“This project
has been
long overdue and
should have
a big impact
on the
longevity of
our equipment and
our ability to
conduct our
research.”
Facilities Manager, Geoff Lewis,
showing off the new freezer room.
oregonstate.edu/dept/NWREC
Nursery Healthy Plants and Bilingual Ed Goes Tech
The Healthy Plants & Bilingual Education Program is keeping up
with the times, seeking new ways to reach their audience to promote a suite of educational outreach opportunities for the coming year.
Included is an all new Facebook page, program brochure, website, and web address. Social media users interested in the
group’s activities, can keep up with the program’s upcoming educational events and research at their new Facebook page,
“Healthy Plants & Bilingual Education—NWREC-OSU.” See
www.facebook.com/plantashealthy. All program posts can be
found in both English and Spanish.
Links to other resources can be found on the Facebook page,
including a link to their new, dedicated website (www.plantashealthy.oregonstate.edu), scheduled to launch this spring.
Also, a new brochure outlines the program’s educational workshops available to nurseries and greenhouses, as well as internship opportunities for college and high school students, and an
overview of their research program.
Finally, a new,
Spanishlanguage educational series
“Tech-Friday
After Work” will
be held every
last Friday of
every month at
the NWREC.
Participants will
learn to better
use computers
and smartphones to browse the internet in search of nursery and
greenhouse information. NWREC’s bilingual education program
has 25 Chromebooks available for participants to use during the
workshop.
The first Tech-Friday was March 25, from 3:00-5:00pm at NWREC.
These events are free of charge. Contact Luisa Santamaria or
Gilberto Uribe for with any questions or for more details.
Calendar of Events
April 13
Whole Farm Planning to Manage Pests and
Minimize Pesticide Use—Christmas Tree Farm IPM Class; NWREC
Downstairs, 9:00am-3:00pm; contact Chal Landgren
June 24
Jan Egli
NWREC Public Farm Tour; Farm, 2:00-4:00pm; contact
Tech-Friday After Work; NWREC Downstairs, 3:00April 29
5:00pm; contact Luisa Santamaria
June 29
Vegetable Integrated Pest Management
Workshop—cucumber and flea beetles and symphylans;
Downstairs, 9:00am-1:00pm; contact Heidi Noordijk
April 30
Let’s Grow Lamb & Wool Symposium; NWREC
Downstairs, 8:00am-5:00pm ; contact Gene Pirelli
June 29
Caneberry Field Day; Farm, 1:00-5:00pm; contact
Bernadine Strik
May 14
Master Gardeners Workshop; NWREC Downstairs,
9:00am-4:00pm ; contact Weston Miller
July 6
Blueberry Field Day; Farm, 1:00-5:00pm; contact
Bernadine Strik
May 27
Tech-Friday After Work; NWREC Downstairs, 3:005:00pm; contact Luisa Santamaria
July 13
NWREC Community Open House; Farm, 4:007:00pm; contact Shelley Hughes
May 27
Jan Egli
July 16
Master Gardeners Workshop; NWREC Downstairs,
9:00am-4:00pm ; contact Weston Miller
NWREC Public Farm Tour; Farm, 2:00-4:00pm; contact
June 8
Strawberry Open House; Farm, 1:00-4:00pm; contact
Bernadine Strik
July 21
Crop Up Dinner; Farm; 4:30-8:30pm; contact Jason
Ball, Food Innovation Center
June 13-14 Northwest Seed Orchard Managers Association;
NWREC Downstairs, 8:00am-5:00pm each day; contact Chal
Landgren
July 29
Tech-Friday After Work; NWREC Downstairs, 3:005:00pm; contact Luisa Santamaria
June 13-15 Youth Tractor Safety Training and Certification;
Small Conference Room/Farm, 8:30am-4:30pm each day; contact
Derek Wells
June 15-17 Nursery BioControl Workshop and Tour; NWREC
Downstairs, 8:00am-5:00pm each day; contact Robin Rosetta
June 24
Tech-Friday After Work; NWREC Downstairs, 3:005:00pm; contact Luisa Santamaria
July 29
Jan Egli
NWREC Public Farm Tour; Farm, 2:00-4:00pm; contact
August 18 Master Gardeners Workshop; NWREC Downstairs,
9:00am-4:00pm ; contact Weston Miller
August 26 Tech Friday-bilingual program; NWREC Downstairs,
3:00-5:00pm; contact Luisa Santamaria
August 26 NWREC Public Farm Tour; Farm, 2:00-4:00pm; contact
Jan Egli
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A Look at How
NWREC is Funded
As we completed this past year, reviewed
the accomplishments of the faculty and
staff, looked at the infrastructure improvements made to the Center, and started
thinking about the next year’s budget, it
became apparent that taking a look at the
funding needed to make all of this happen seemed useful to share. Most don’t
get this kind of perspective.
The North Willamette Research and
Extension Center is a $2.4 million per year
enterprise. That’s what it takes to staff
and run this operation. And, the funding
comes from several sources; truly a collaborative effort by the State of Oregon, our
cooperating counties, those providing
grants and contracts for our work, and
community contributors who want to
support what we do.
Before we go further, let’s recognize the
special contribution and support of
Clackamas County government. The
County purchased two eighty-acre farms
more than 50 years ago to form the North
Willamette Research and Extension
Center. Clackamas County provides our
land, at no cost, on a long-term lease with
OSU to operate the Center. OSU owns
and manages all of the buildings and conducts the research and education. Thank
you, Clackamas County!
The pie chart shows the main sources of
our funding at NWREC.
Here’s a simple breakdown by major
funding categories and the source of the
support.
• OSU Agricultural Experiment Station
(AES) ($420,000)—these are state funds
coming from the Legislature through the
Public Statewide Service line item in the
budget to OSU; AES dollars provide
salary/benefit support that funds the
three farm staff, Office Manager, 20% of
the Director’s position, a portion of two
faculty, and 1/2 of one research assistant.
In addition, AES dollars provide about
$75,000 per year for operating expenses
on the farm—fuels, chemicals, repairs,
maintenance, equipment, utilities, etc.
AES
AGES
OSU Departments
Counties
Grants and Contracts
Return to Overhead
Foundation
Farm-to-Farm Leases
• OSU Agricultural Extension (AGES)
program ($256,000)—these are state
funds coming from the Legislature
through the Public Statewide Service line
items in the budget to the OSU Extension
Service; then, distributed to each of the
five Extension program areas at the university. AGES dollars provide salary/benefit support that funds for three faculty
members and the general office operational expenses to support the faculty
and staff.
• OSU Extension Service ($470,000)—this
is funding for five NWREC faculty positions
with their budget support housed in academic departments on campus.
• County Contributions ($314,000)—provided annually from counties served by
NWREC’s faculty, staff and programs. In
1987 when Extension faculty were moved
to NWREC, the counties in our service area
agreed to help financially support the faculty being re-located from the county
offices to the Center. The county contributions were set based on farm gate values
in the counties and the importance of agriculture to their economies. County contributions provide the support for our office
clerical staff and two program staff. In
addition, a program support allocation of
$5,000 per year is provided to each of the
faculty for their travel, going to meetings,
education programs, and field visits in the
region. Finally, about $60,000 was provided to NWREC faculty and staff this past
year for Innovative Grant projects funded
by the Clackamas County Extension
Service District.
– Clackamas County Extension Service
District ($217,000)
– Marion County Extension Service
District ($50,000)
– Polk County Extension Service
District ($10,000)
– Yamhill County Extension Service
District ($15,000)
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– Washington County Extension
Service ($15,000)
– Multnomah County (does not fund
Extension and provides no support
to NWREC)
– Columbia County Extension Service
District ($7,000)
• Grants and Contracts ($920,000)—this
funding comes from a variety of sources
and is the result of the good work of the
faculty and staff and their ability to be
competitive for this funding. If the state
doesn’t invest to hire the faculty, then
these dollars go away. Nearly all of the
faculty research assistants, bio-technicians, and educational program assistants
at NWREC are funded on soft-money
grants and contracts. This currently
includes the equivalent of 8-1/2 people.
The remainder of these funds are spent to
support the research and education activities specified in the grant or contract.
• Return to Overhead ($14,000)—indirect costs from grants and contracts generated by faculty and coming back to
NWREC.
• OSU Foundation ($17,000)—contributions to NWREC coming from our Friends,
Harvest Dinner sponsors, and other gifts.
• Land Leases ($8,800)—income from the
Farm-to-Farm lease program.
Now you have a good idea about where
the money comes from to run a place like
NWREC. Clearly, this is a “joint venture” and
would not be possible without the cooperation of OSU, the counties, agencies, organizations, businesses and individuals. For
every state dollar of funding provided to
support NWREC, another $1.10 is provided
by our other sources of funding—more
than doubling what the state could do by
themselves. For every county dollar invested in NWREC, nearly $7.70 is invested by
other funding partners.
NWREC’s Advisory
Council—who are
these people?
The North Willamette Research and
Extension Center is fortunate to have
an outstanding group of community
volunteers who serve on our Advisory
Council. The group meets three times
each year for a three hour meeting to
be brought up-to-date on the latest
activities at the Center, review grant
proposals for funding, and provide
support and advice for working with
the Legislature and reaching out with
our programs to the public. In addition, the Council provides critical thinking about mission, vision, strategic
planning and financing for the Center.
NWREC Director, Mike Bondi, formed
the group in his first year at NWREC
back in 2011. Although some have
come and gone from the current
Council membership, the group usually includes about 15 members. Listed
here are your current NWREC Advisory
Council members and their affiliations.
• Greg Bennett, NW Onion Company
A Thank You to our Friends!
NWREC boasts of many friends—from our
county funding partners, those providing
grants and contracts supporting our
research and education, to the farmers
who let us experiment with them on their
properties or host educational programs
and tours.
Also, we have financial friends who provide
monetary gifts each year to support our
activities.The Friends of the North
Willamette Research and Extension Center
is our “member” organization. The membership form is located on the last page of
this newsletter. Contributors come to us
through this form, by donating at the North
Willamette Horticultural Society (NWHS)
meetings, or by helping sponsor our annual
NWREC Harvest Dinner each fall.
We thank all of these very special Friends
and invite you to participate on this great
team:
Member
Mary Holzapfel—Wilsonville, OR
Peter & Joy Durkee—Canby, OR
Sandy Thompson & Ann Wagoner—
Aurora, OR
Gerald & Margaret Scovil—Wilsonville, OR
• Jim Bernard, Clackamas County
Commissioner
First Crop
Lyle & Barbara Andrews—Prineville, OR
• TJ Hafner, AgriCare
Second Crop
Aurora Farms—Aurora, OR (NWHS)
Rufus & Kay LaLone—Silverton, OR
Norman Parker—Lake Oswego, OR
Schmidlin Farms—Banks, OR (Harvest
Dinner)
• Mike Iverson, Aurora Farms
• Jim Johnson, Oregon Department
of Agriculture
• Greg Leo, The Leo Company
• Neal Lucht, Northwest Transplants
• Lance Lyon, Lance Lyon Consulting
and Board member of the
Agricultural Research Foundation
• Kevin Cameron, Marion County
Commissioner
• Craig Pope, Polk County Commissioner
• Bill Sabol, Arbor Grove Nursery
Bumper Crop
Bi-Zi Farms—Vancouver, WA (NWHS)
Dow Agro Sciences—Salem, OR (NWHS)
Gowan USA—Sublimity, OR (NWHS)
Nourse Farms, Inc.—South Deerfield, MA
(NWHS)
Wilbur-Ellis Company—Woodburn, OR
(NWHS)
• Matt Unger, Unger Farms
If you know our Council members or
see them, please thank them for their
important service!
Director’s Club
Del Hemphill—Canby, OR
Pratum Co-op—Salem, OR (NWHS and
Harvest Dinner)
Friends of Family Farmers—Salem, OR
(Harvest Dinner)
NW Transplants—Molalla, OR (Harvest
Dinner)
Oregon Blueberry Commission—Salem,
OR (Harvest Dinner)
OSU Extension Service-Administration—
Corvallis, OR (Harvest Dinner)
Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree
Association—Salem, OR (Harvest Dinner)
McKenzie Farms—Estacada, OR (Harvest
Dinner)
Holiday Farms—Corvallis, OR (Harvest
Dinner)
Drakes Crossing Nursery—Silverton, OR
(Harvest Dinner)
Northwest Evergreens—Hillsboro, OR
(Harvest Dinner)
BTN of Oregon—Salem, OR (Harvest
Dinner)
Noble Mountain Tree Farm—Salem, OR
(Harvest Dinner)
Dean’s Club
Mike & Connie Bondi—Lake Oswego, OR
Clark Cowlitz Farm Bureau—Vancouver,
WA (NWHS)
Roger & Mary Beth Bassett—Turner, OR
The Kerslake Family—Gresham, OR
President’s Club
Oregon Department of Agriculture—
Salem, OR
Save the Date
come celebrate!
• Mark Schmidlin, Schmidlin Farms
• Tom Winterrowd, Pitkin Farms
Bumper Crop (continued)
Joann & Wayne Chambers—Albany, OR
Nursery Connection—Hubbard, OR
(Harvest Dinner)
NW Farm Credit Services—Salem, OR
(Harvest Dinner)
Weather Café—Silverton, OR (Harvest
Dinner)
Don’t miss the annual NWREC Harvest Dinner. Friday, September 30, 2016 at the
North Willamette Research and Extension Center. Dinner planning is just beginning.
This will be another great gathering of food from the farm and wonderful company.
Join us as we highlight another successful year and thank our partners and
collaborators—plus introduce new faces.
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Local High School Youth Shine at Science Competition
By Amy Schauer, CREST Program Coordinator,
West Linn-Wilsonville School District
NWREC’s outreach activities support sound
agricultural science from some surprising
sources—high school students.
The recent West Linn-Wilsonville School
District’s CREST-Jane Goodall Science
Symposium included two accomplished
and innovative research projects done at
NWREC by Kristopher Wieland (Wilsonville
HS junior) and Dylan Martins (West Linn
HS senior).
CREST is the acronym for the Center for
Research in Environmental Sciences and
Technologies and offers programs and curricular support for students, teachers and
parents in the West Linn and Wilsonville
communities. Students from these communities found NWREC to be a place
where they could find university faculty
doing research on topics in their areas of
interest and the kind of facilities to support
their needs.
The Symposium—a “super science fair” with
over 250 projects—began in the West
Linn-Wilsonville School District in 2002 and
was first keynoted by Dr. Jane Goodall. It
showcases a wide array of research and
engineering innovations developed by
pre-college students, who are supported
by staff from the school district’s environmental education and science center,
CREST. Students spend months pursuing
original research, and present projects for
judging by professional scientists in late
February. Among the prizes awarded to
the top projects are 3 scholarships to OSU.
For Dylan Martins, presenting at the
Symposium is nothing new. This year, however, Dylan took his research in a new direction. Interested in the Colony Collapse
Disorder problem facing honey bees, Dylan
began exploring how “good” microbes
associated with the insect may play an
important part in the insect’s health. He
studied two antibiotics and their potency
against a couple of important symbiotic
bacterial species in the honey bee gut. He
found that some types of antibiotics that
beekeepers commonly use may actually
harm some beneficial bacteria in the honey
bee digestive tract. Dylan’s work this year
was awarded with an all-expenses paid trip
Wilsonville High School junior Kristopher
Wieland in the Plant Pathology lab at NWREC.
to Houston,Texas in April where he will be
participating in a prestigious international
science fair competition.
Kris Wieland began working at NWREC as a
student intern in the Plant Pathology lab
under Dr. Luisa Santamaria in the summer.
He soon became interested in the group of
bacteria, Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium
species, that associate with legume roots.
These species are natural chemical factories
that convert nitrogen into a form readily
available for plant uptake. Kris is studying
how these important microbes interact
with root pathogens as well as the chemi-
NWREC Director Mike Bondi congratulates West
Linn High School senior Dylan Martins on his science fair project.
cals used to treat root pathogens. He found
that one type of fungicide actually decreases the growth of Rhizobium and
Bradyrhizobium. This could be important
for growers of legume crops to identify better management practices for controlling
fungal diseases. Kris took first place in his
category at the Symposium and is already
planning the next phase of his research.
By providing mentoring, guidance, and lab
support to highly-motivated young
researchers focused on current issues important to farmers, NWREC is helping to grow
the next generation of agricultural scientists.
Hiring Updates
Here’s the latest information about the
NWREC faculty hirings coming in 2016.
Nursery position update
This is the former Jim Owen faculty nursery and greenhouse Research position
that has been vacant for nearly five years.
The industry has been waiting patiently...
The latest national search closed on
February 29. The Search Committee
reviewed 20 applications and selected 7
to interview by phone and check references on. The phone interviews were
completed on April 1. Four finalist candidates will be invited to Oregon for visits
and interviews at NWREC and on campus
in May. The goal is to have a new hire in
place by mid-summer.
NWREC’s Robin Rosetta, Nursery IPM faculty and John Lambrinos, Landscape
Ecology Professor at OSU in Corvallis, are
the Search Co-Chairs.
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IR-4/Specialty Crops Registration
position update
Long-time IR-4 Field Center Director at
NWREC, Joe DeFrancesco, has
announced his plans to retire later in
2016. A search is being initiated to re-fill
Joe’s position. The national search is
expected to begin in April.
Vegetable/Specialty Seed Crop
Extension position update
This is the former Bob McReynolds
Extension faculty position that has been
vacant for nearly 4 years. The industry
has been waiting patiently...
Funding for this position is provided
through the 2015 Legislative increase in
Extension’s funding last summer. Monies
will be available in September this year.
A national search will begin in May to fill
this position.
First Hazelnut
Plantings at NWREC
Three 1-acre hazelnut plots are being
established in the southwest corner of the
farm. Two of the plots were planted this
winter; a third plot will be established later
this summer. The hazelnut research and
Extension education programs are being
developed by Nik Wiman, Tree Orchard
Crops Extension Specialist. Wiman join
NWREC’s staff in September, 2015.
Plots planted this winter are the variety
“Jefferson”, one of the first eastern filbert
blight (EFB) resistant varieties released by
the OSU Hazelnut Breeding Program—led
by Shawn Mehlenbacher at OSU. EFB is
potentially devastating to European
hazelnut varieties that were historically
the dominant production varieties grown
in the Pacific Northwest. While the industry waits for the newer plantings of the
blight resistant varieties to mature, they
still depend on the “legacy” varieties, most
of which are in decline from EFB, for the
majority of production.
The Jefferson trees planted at NWREC
were generously donated by Jeff Newton
and Christensen Farms LLC of McMinnville
OR. The plot layouts were established by
NWREC farm crew—Farm Manager, Marc
Anderson, and assistant, Derek Wells,
using new GPS-guided tractor and highprecision software provided by Papé
Machinery, Donald OR.
The research plots will be used for several
projects that were selected for funding by
the Oregon Hazelnut Commission in 2016.
The initial research project is focused on
orchard establishment, examining how different mulching media affect establishment of young trees.Treatments include
composts and a biochar product. Plots will
be established using drip irrigation treatments to determine optimal irrigation
strategies and fertigation/nutritional
dynamics of hazelnuts.
The third plot will examine the potential
for growing the trees on raised berms.
Approximately 4,000 acres of hazelnuts
are being planted annually in the
Willamette Valley—the fastest growing
sector of Oregon agriculture. Hazelnuts
will be a dominant perennial crop and a
cornerstone of the western Oregon agricultural economy far into the future.
Hazelnut production research will be
focused to ensure that industry practices
are scientifically-based and sustainable.
New Tractor Brings Hi-Tech to Farm
The North Willamette
Research and Extension
Center purchased a
new tractor last fallbringing the first GPS
(global positioning system) guidance capability to the farm. The tractor, a John Deere model
5115M, includes the onboard GPS, auto-tracking, and software package and that allows precision mapping and
application technology
to the Center’s work.
The new 115 HP-tractor,
replaces an older unit
and will be the work
horse for the needs of
the Center and used by
the farm management
staff and all of the programs.
Assistant Farm Manager, Derek Wells, showing off NWREC’s new
“We’ve needed this
technology for a while; tractor.
many of the farmers are now using GPS guidance on their farms,” said Marc Anderson,
NWREC’s Farm Manager. The new tractor will be used for establishing and laying out
research plots, mapping plots and farm fields, determining acreages, and the precision
application of fertilizers and pesticides.
The new tractor cost nearly $89,000—including almost $14,000 of guidance equipment. The purchase is being financed through a ten year loan from the College of
Agricultural Sciences at OSU.
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Overwintering Brassica Field Day Attracts Crowd—in rain
By Heidi Noordijk, Extension Small Farms
Education Program Assistant
The North Willamette Research and
Extension Center Learning Farm was
hopping with overwintering brassica
enthusiasts touring and evaluating the
variety trials. These crops can be risky for
farmers due to fluctuations in winter
weather, but the interest and demand for
locally produced winter vegetables was
confirmed with over 70 farmers, vegetable
breeders, seed company representatives,
OSU Extension staff and other agricultural
professionals participating in the field day
on a rainy spring afternoon. The heart of
the day was the discussions that will guide
future research for winter vegetable production in the Willamette Valley.
Nick Andrews and Heidi Noordijk, OSU
Extension Metro-area Small Farms Program
collaborated with Bejo Seeds, Johnny’s
Selected Seeds, Tozer Seeds America and
Vitalis Organic Seeds in selecting and
growing 40 varieties of purple sprouting
broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and kalettes.
Transplant dates were August 16,
September 1, September 16, and
September 30 for selected varieties.
The two earliest planting dates had the
best results for cabbage and cauliflower;
plants from the latter two dates were too
small going into winter and began to bolt
before heads were produced. Kalettes
were planted too late, experienced growers and seed company representatives
said they should be planted in May and
treated like Brussels sprouts. The first
three planting dates for purple sprouting
broccoli produced a harvestable crop.
Planting date did not appear to have an
influence on harvest date, while variety
had a very strong effect. Different crops
appear to have different optimal planting
dates that may be similar between varieties. We hope to confirm these preliminary results and work out the details with
future research.
“The priority for me is finding varieties of
broccoli and cauliflower that survive
extreme cold”, said Lyn Jacobs a direct
market farmer from Forest Grove. This
was a mild winter, and we didn’t see much
winter injury. Other growers are looking
for crops that will mature in March or
April. Eric Harvey
from Our Table
Farm in Sherwood
shared,“Our
biggest challenges are timing,
weather variability, disease and
weed control.”
Jeff Fairchild from
New Seasons
Market discussed
the challenges in
finding a niche for
wholesale winter
vegetable markets
and described
some challenges
of competing with Kraig Kuykendall of Tozer Seeds America, discusses purple sprouting broccoli
production with rain-soaked farmers.
growers in
California and
Mexico. New
Seasons is very
supportive of local
producers and
Jeff’s insights into
the competitive
aspects of winter
vegetable production were very
helpful. Most of
the growers at the
field day focus on
direct markets, a
few focus on
wholesale markets.
Kelly Streit, OSU
Extension’s Family
Jim Christopherson, Bejo Seeds, discusses cabbage maturity.
and Community
dates, nutrient management of purple
Health faculty in Clackamas County, presprouting broccoli, harvest maturity evalupared a tasting table of raw cabbage variations, degree-day modeling, and brassica
eties. Participants shared that Stanton,
disease management. Participants appreCantasa and January King were the most
ciated the field day. One participant
flavorful. Cindy Ocamb, OSU Extension
exclaimed,“This event was awesome, even
Plant Pathologist, gave an update on blackwith the rain!”
leg and light leaf spot, two recently introduced fungi that are causing epidemics in
Trial observation summaries will be postthe Willamette Valley.
ed on the Winter Vegetable Website:
http://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/nwrec“The turnout was good despite the weathwinter-vegetable-variety-field-day-1. Your
er and some people kept walking through
feedback on useful research questions
the field until 6:00 pm. I think that all
and Extension activities can be addressed
points to the very strong interest in this
to Nick Andrews (nick.andrews@oregontopic,” said Nick Andrews. Future applied
state.edu).
research projects on winter vegetable production could include earlier planting
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North Willamette Research
and Extension Center
Faculty & Staff
Administration & Support Staff
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Jan Egli, Office Specialist
Marc Anderson, Farm and Facilities
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Geoff Lewis, Building Trades and
Maintenance
Derek Wells, Farm Management
Extension & Research Faculty
Bernadine Strik, Berry Research
Leader
Wei Yang, Berry Crops
Extension Agent
Robin Rosetta, Nursery IPM Extension
Agent
Luisa Santamaria, Nursery Pathologist/
Bilingual Extension Agent
Chal Landgren, Christmas Tree
Extension Specialist
Nick Andrews, Metro Small Farms
Extension Agent
Chip Bubl, Extension Agriculture
Agent
Joe DeFrancesco, Pesticide
Registration Research
Nik Wiman, Orchard Crops Extension
Specialist
Research and Program Staff
Amanda Vance, Berry Research
Pat Jones, Berry Research
Heather Andrews, Berry Extension/
Research
Gina Koskela, Pesticide Registration
Research
Peter Sturman, Pesticide Registration
Research
Judy Kowalski, Nursery, Christmas
Tree, and Pesticide Research
Gilberto Uribe, Pathology and
Bilingual Nursery Program Assistant
Heidi Noordijk, Small Farms
Program Assistant
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