2022 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
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| Winter Tomato Trial (Report) | A till/no-till comparison of five tomato varieties. | Asher Whitney |
2021 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
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| Potato Variety Trial (Results) (Protocol) | Read the results (from across the PNW) of the 10-variety dry farmed potato trials and the protocol for being a participant. | Chris Homanics, Amy Garrett, Lucas Nebert |
| Winter Storage Tomato Variety Trial (Report) (Protocol) | Read about productivity, quality, and storability of 17 tomato varieties and the protocol for being a participant. | Asher Whitney, Amy Garrett, Matt Davis |
| Corn Breeding Project (Handout) | Read about participatory dry farmed corn variety trials, as well as breeding efforts to produce dry-farming-adapted selections of these varieties. | Lucas Nebert |
| Small Farmers’ Climate Change Beliefs and Experiences with Weather Challenges in Oregon (Paper) | Study aimed to understand the specific weather-related challenges small farmers across Oregon are experiencing, how they are responding to those challenges, their beliefs about climate change, and the barriers they face to successful adaptation. | Melissa Parks, Amy Garrett |
2020 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
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| Site Suitability (Handout) (Recorded Presentation) | How to evaluate your site for dry farm potential. |
Alex Stone, Matt Davis |
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Soil Management Study (Recorded Presentation) |
16 min video presentation on soil management for dry farmed tomatoes. | |
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Tomato Variety Trials (Report) (Recorded Presentation) |
Learn more about dry farm tomato research, see publications or 18 min video. | |
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Potato Variety Trials (Results) (Recorded Presentation) |
Read a report or watch an 18 min video about the potatoes trials that took place on 9 sites through out Oregon. | Chris Homanics, Amy Garrett |
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Squash Variety Trials (Report) (Recorded Presentation) |
Read a report or watch a 23 min video about Delicata and Maxima squash trials that took place on 35 participating sites in the PNW. | Amy Garrett, Lucas Nebert |
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Bean Variety Trials (Slides) (Recorded Presentation) |
Access the slides and an 18 min video on dry farming Tempary and Common beans. | Lucas Nebert |
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Corn Breeding Project (Slides) (Recorded Presentation) |
Access the slides and a 20 min video on dry farming "Open Oak Party Mix" dent corn (grain corn). | Lucas Nebert |
2019 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Bean Variety Trial (Results) | Dry farmed six bean varieties on two research sites. | |
| Melon Variety Trial (Results) | Grew six watermelon varieties and four muskmelon varieties at the OSU Vegetable Research Farm. | |
| Potato Variety Trial (Results) | Grew 15 potato varieties across nine sites. | |
| Tomato Variety Trial (Results) | Grew nine tomato varieties at the Oak Creek Center for Urban Agriculture. |
2018 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-2018 DFC Variety Trials (Report) | See variety trial results compiled from more than 20 Dry Farming Collaborative sites. Multiple varieties of dry beans, flour corn, winter squash, tomato, melon, and zucchini were included. | Lucas Nebert, Amy Garrett |
2017 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Oak Creek Dry Farming Demonstration (Report) | Includes methods and results for a tomato trial that included both grafted and ungrafted tomatoes in irrigated and dry farmed treatments. Also, the beginnings of effort to do participatory plant breeding for dry farmed systems is documented with a dry bean variety called 'Beefy Resilient Grex' from plant breeder Carol Deppe of Fertile Seeds. | Amy Garrett, Ana Monreal |
| Lewis Brown Dry Farming Collaborative (Trial) | The OSU Lewis Brown dry farm trial site is .69 acres and has multiple varieties of tomatoes, squash, melon, zucchini, dry beans, and flour corn. This is the first year this field has been dry farmed and intended to be the ‘mother trial’ for the 2017 replicated variety trials with the Dry Farming Collaborative (DFC). Thirty DFC farms throughout Western Oregon and Washington are growing some of the same crop varietals. Note: This site had major issues with symphylans and cucumber beetles, so data in this reports reflects our results given those issues. | Amy Garrett, Ana Monreal |
2016 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
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| Oak Creek Dry Farming Demonstration (Report) | This report details the methods and results for the 2016 dry farming demonstration which included two irrigated plots and two dry farmed plots (tomatoes, potatoes, squash and melon). One of the dry farmed plots was amended with a bokashi biochar compost. | Amy Garrett |
2015 Growing Season Research Projects |
Description |
Researcher(s) |
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| Oak Creek Dry Farming Demonstration (Report) | This report highlights what was done and the results for the first demonstration of dry farming vegetables in Corvallis at the OSU Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture. | Amy Garrett |