Cooperative Extension Service
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
The University of Georgia
George Boyhan, Extension Horticulturist-Vegetables
East Georgia Extension Center
Rosenwald Building, Third Floor
PO Box 8112
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460
912-681-5639 | 912-681-0376, Fax | 912-682-3481, mobile
The upcoming Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Grower Conference is scheduled for January 11-13, 2002, in Savannah, Georgia. Unlike past years, the conference will be held at the Savannah Civic Center. Past conferences have been so successful that more space was needed to accommodate the increased interest. Along with the GFVGA, the Georgia Peach Council and the Georgia Watermelon Association are sponsors of this year's conference.
Educational sessions will run the gamut of fruit and vegetable information with sessions on labor, food safety, Vidalia onions, watermelon production and roadside marketing. There will be a session on Sandea herbicide for use on cucurbits and even a session on organic production, a first for the GFVGA Conference.
The deadline for early-bird registration is December 21, 2001, so if you plan to attend, make sure to get your registration in early. For more information and to register, contact:
Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Grower Association
877-99GFVGA
info@gfvga.org
www.gfvga.org
Georgia Peach Council
478-956-6418
478-956-2929 - Fax
janice@uga.edu
www.griffin.uga.edu/caes/gapeach
Georgia Watermelon Association
229-775-2580
229-785-2344 - Fax
nwai@surfsouth.com
Two months ago, I reported the results of the election of officers for the VOC. These results were preliminary, and the final talley saw some changes in the makeup of the vote. The elected officials in order of the number of votes they got are --
Robert Dasher
R.T. Stanley
L.G. (Bo) Herndon, Jr.
Wayne Douberly
Mike McKinley
Howard Morris
Ronald Collins
Ty Powell
Storage Results of Vidalia Onion Trial
The results of the controlled atmosphere storage for the Vidalia Onion and Vegetable Research Center variety trial is below. The reported results include the percent loss in storage. This is primarily moisture loss and some disease loss. The percent sound onions by weight and number is also reported. We pull the onions from storage, get an initial weight, and then grade them as marketable or unmarketable; this gets reported as a percent.
There is quite a bit of difference based on variety as to storability. The top five performing varieties in this study are --
Sweet Vidalia
Granex 1035 (DPSX 1035)
Savannah Sweet
Southern Honey
Sweet Melody
| Controlled Atmosphere Storage Results (2000-2001 Season) | |||
| Percent Weight Loss in Storage | Percent Marketable by Weight | Percent Marketable by Number | |
| Sweet Vidalia | 11.3% | 95.5% | 95.9% |
| Granex 1035 (DPSX 1035) | 4.3% | 94.9% | 96.3% |
| Savannah Sweet | 4.8% | 92.8% | 94.5% |
| Southern Honey | 4.4% | 92.7% | 95.2% |
| Sweet Melody | 4.7% | 91.6% | 92.6% |
| DPS 1024 | 5.4% | 90.9% | 92.5% |
| Granex 107 | 5.1% | 90.4% | 91.1% |
| Granex 33 | 4.9% | 89.6% | 90.0% |
| Cyclops | 5.4% | 88.8% | 88.9% |
| Sweet Success | 4.1% | 86.9% | 90.4% |
| Granex 2025 | 5.1% | 86.0% | 89.3% |
| PS 7092 | 6.0% | 84.7% | 84.7% |
| Asgrow 6846 | 6.1% | 83.8% | 83.2% |
| Sweet Melissa | 4.6% | 83.1% | 83.2% |
| PS7292 | 7.2% | 82.4% | 83.6% |
| DPS 1033 | 6.1% | 82.0% | 81.9% |
| EX 19013 | 6.2% | 79.1% | 80.4% |
| King Midas | 5.6% | 76.5% | 78.0% |
| Liberty | 7.0% | 76.4% | 87.7% |
| EX 075 | 6.0% | 73.1% | 79.2% |
| DPS 1032 | 6.6% | 72.0% | 74.0% |
| Pegasus | 6.6% | 68.2% | 68.0% |
| Nirvana | 7.4% | 62.6% | 60.6% |
| SBO 133 | 5.9% | 56.6% | 57.8% |
| Sweet Advantage | 9.2% | 56.2% | 57.3% |
| Southern Belle | 10.1% | 55.2% | 54.8% |
| WI 609 | 6.6% | 47.2% | 48.5% |
| WI 3115 | 6.4% | 46.2% | 48.0% |
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| R2 | 0.517 | 0.640 | 0.620 |
| CV | 19% | 20% | 21% |
| LSD | 0.2% | 4.5% | 5.3% |
From My DeskThis will be a short month with the holidays coming up. I should have my final newsletter out for the year in a couple of weeks. Talk to you in a couple of weeks.