Agricultural Experiment Station
Oregon State University
Special Report 1046
June 2003

2002 Central Oregon Agricultural Research Center Annual Report

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CONTENTS

Introduction

2002 Station Faculty and Staff

Authors and Contributors

• Weather Information: 2002 Water Year, Powell Butte, Oregon
  
• Weather Information: 2002 Water Year, Madras, Oregon

I. Safe and Effective Management of Pests

• Evaluation of the Potential for Systemic Infection of Carrot Seed Crops by Xanthomonas campestris pv. carotae
  
• Evaluation of Herbicides for Control of Seedlings in Kentucky Bluegrass Seed Production, 2001-2002
  
• Evaluation of Herbicides on Roundup Ready Bentgrass and Conventional Bentgrass in Central Oregon, 2000-2002
  
• Herbicide Evaluation on Seed Carrots, 2002
  
• Evaluation of Postemergence Herbicides on Eight Native Grass Species Grown for Seed, 2001-2002

II. Plant Improvement

• Peppermint Variety Trial, Central Oregon, 2002
  
• State-wide Cereal Variety Testing Program Trials in Central Oregon, 2002
  
• Spring Cereal Forage Varieties for Central Oregon
  
• Winter Cereal Forage Varieties for Central Oregon
  
• Seeding Rate Effect on Winter Triticale and Soft White Winter Wheat: Year II
  
• Three-cut Irrigated Alfalfa Variety Trial: 1999-2002 Yield Results
  
• Four-cut Irrigated Alfalfa Variety Trial: 1999-2002 Yield Results
  
• Potato Variety Development 2002 Progress Report

III. Systems for Producing Agricultural Crops

• Bacterial Blight of Carrot Seed Crops: Identification of Sources of Inoculum
  
• Evaluation of Apogee® on Kentucky and Rough Bluegrass, 2002
  
• Seed Carrot Above-ground Biomass and Nutrient Accumulation for the 2001/2002 Growing Season
  
• Drip Irrigation on Commercial Seed Carrots and Onions in Central Oregon, 2002
  
• Evaluation of Palisade® on Kentucky and Rough Bluegrass, 2002
  
• Jefferson County Smoke Management Piball Observations, 2002

IV. Disease Detection Procedures

• Evaluation of Fungicides for Control of Powdery Mildew in Kentucky Bluegrass Seed Production in Central Oregon, 2002
  
• Comparing Winter Greenhouse Serological Testing with Visual Readings for Potato Cultivars Not Readily Expressing Visual PVY Symptoms

V. Other

• Evaluation of Simulated Hail Damage to Peppermint in Central Oregon, 2002