FACILITIES, TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT

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• Pesticide application methods include airblast, seed treatments, in-furrow treatments, boom sprayer, backpack sprayer, helicopter, plane, and chemigation.

• In 2024, we will carry out RCBD, replicated aerial and chemigation efficacy trials.

• Temperature controlled chambers/cold room for post-harvest studies for tree fruit, potatoes, onions, and other crops.

• Insect cages for indoor and field use.

• Potter spray tower for laboratory assays.

• Year-round greenhouse study capacity.

• A wide array of crops on which crop destruction projects can be conducted.

• Commercial scale potato yield and grade analyses.

• Parallel 8-boom over the row sprayer for applications over bush/vine type crops like grapes, blueberries, and blackberries from both sides.

• 10 boom plot broadcast sprayer

• Post harvest analyses for tree fruit, potatoes, onions, berries, and other produce.

• In addition to our Columbia Basin Research Station, we also have research facilities in Wenatchee (tree fruit central) and Mt Vernon (high disease pressure situation.)

• Drone research

Crops

Diversity Is Our Specialty

ADG can conduct research on virtually any crop grown in the Northwest; if we cannot grow a crop at our research station, we have offsite locations that will allow us to conduct research trials on most crops of the Pacific Northwest.

Crops grown on-farm include:

Vegetables: Asparagus, Brussel Sprout, Beet, Carrot, Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cucumber, Dry Bean, Lima Bean, Green Bean, Eggplant, Lettuce, Mint, Onion, Leek, Peas, Bell Pepper, Green leafy vegetables, Hot Pepper, Okra, Potato, Pumpkin, Spinach, Squash, Sugar Beet, Grape, Tomato, Turnip, and many others.

Fruit: Apple, Blackberry, Blueberry, Cherry, Grape (Juice and Wine), Melon, Peach, Raspberry, Strawberry, Pear, and Plum.

Other crops: Alfalfa, Barley, Field Corn, Sweet Corn, Lavender, Mint, Oats, Popcorn, Wheat, Hemp, Hops, and Turf Grass.

Trials with Agriculture Development Group, Inc. for 2024

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1. Residue decline curves.

2. Fire blight, powdery mildew, codling moth, mites, pear psylla and other insects and diseases of tree fruit

3. Potato psyllid trials at plant, chemigation, foliar in field, by life stages

4. Potato white mold, early blight Rhizoctonia, Verticillium, late blight

5. CPB, aphids, psyllid, mites, lygus, wireworm and thrips on potatoes

6. Potato herbicides and fumigation research.

7. SWD on blueberry and raspberry

8. Mealy bug and leafhopper on grape

9. Botrytis on grapes, onion, blueberry, strawberry, snapbean, and raspberry

10. Powdery mildew on grape, apple, peach, strawberry, cherry, squash

11. Tomato diseases and fertility

12. Nematodes on potatoes, onions, squash, carrot and other crops

13. Sweet corn earworm and corn fertility

14. Mites on mint, grass seed, raspberry, blueberry

15. Thrips on onion, apples, potato, and other crops

16. Fertility trials on several crops

17. Storage diseases of apple, blueberry, onion, potato, and other crops.

18. Potter spray tower efficacy studies

19. Organic products testing

20. Mummy berry on blueberry