Enterprise Horticulture Fieldday

	Horticulture Extension Agent, Brad Bergefurd welcomes over 120 in attendance to the OSU Enterprise Center 5th Annual Horticulture Fieldnight.

	The first speaker of the evening was Jim McClendon of McClendon Pepper Harvesters of Tulia, Texas.

	The crowd then laoded waggons where they visited over 500 research and demonstration plots at the Enterprise Center field trials located at Southern State College in Hillisboro, Ohio.

	One of the stops was a freshmarket processing cabbage variety trials. This experment helps growers to identify suitable cultivars for this emerging market.

	Over 15 different cabbage cultivars are tested for yield and disease resistance as well as internal and external marketabilty attributes.

	The Enterprise Center also tests 20 cultivars of fresh market and specialty Heir Loom tomatoes for their production, marketing and quality characterstics.

	Several trials are done in conjunction with state specialist from The Ohio State University, Columbus and Wooster campuses.

	State specialist Dr. Mac Riedel ( in striped shirt on right) addresses the crowd reguarding disease control in fresh market tomato crops.

	Those in attendance are allowed to go into the research plots to personally view the differences among the cultivars and treatments.

	The center also has an extensive collection of pumpkin research trials including: cultivar evaluations, disease control, insect control, trickle irrigation and plastic mulch combinations and the use of cover crops for the weed control

	Opportunity exists for Southern Ohio growers to produce fall ornamental crops for the expanding halloween market. Here Brad Bergefurd updates the crowd on the ornamental corn evaluation trials.

	Many thanks to Thom Harker (seated on the tractor) research assistant, without Thoms overall management of the Hillisboro field trials, our field nights and research results would not be possible. Plan to join us monday, August 16th, 1999 for our 6th annual Horticulture Fieldnight.