Research and extension efforts in the Reiners Lab are designed to maintain and enhance the profitability and sustainability of New York vegetable farmers in both the short and long term. Short-term projects are designed to provide growers with the best cultural methods to grow crops, including:
- Fertility management
- Irrigation
- Optimizing plant populations
- Variety selection for the processing vegetable industry.
Long-term projects include:
- Fine-tuning cover crop use to maximize nutrient recycling and reduce disease incidence
- Improving fertilizer recommendations
- Determining how variety selection and fertility practices affect disease tolerance
Contact
- Steve Reiners, Professor, sr43@cornell.edu
- Michael Rosato, Research Support Specialist, mwr54@cornell.edu
Research reports
2022
- Processing pea cultivar trial
- Processing snap bean cultivar trial
- Processing dry bean variety trial (coming soon)
- Processing sweet corn variety trial
2021
- Processing pea cultivar trial
- Processing snap bean cultivar trial
- Processing dry bean variety trial
- Processing sweet corn variety trial
2020
- Processing pea cultivar trial
- Processing pea cutting photo gallery
- Processing snap bean cultivar trial
- Processing snap bean cutting photo gallery
- Processing sweet corn variety trial
- Processing sweet corn photo gallery
2019
- Processing pea cultivar trial
- Processing snap bean cultivar trial
- Processing sweet corn variety trial
- Dry bean cultivar trials (Dark Red Kidneys, Light Red Kidneys, Black Turtle and Cranberry)
2018
- Processing pea cultivar trial
- Processing snap bean cultivar trial
- Processing sweet corn variety trial
- Dry bean cultivar trials (Dark Red Kidneys, Light Red Kidneys, Black Turtle and Cranberry)
2017
- Processing pea cultivar trial
- Processing snap bean cultivar trial
- Processing sweet corn variety trial
- Dry bean cultivar trials (Dark Red Kidneys, Light Red Kidneys, Black Turtle and Cranberry)
2016