In general, the Kerr Center horticulture program is pretty sparing with irrigation. When we do use water, we try to work it so that a little goes a long way. In high summer, when crops…continue reading 
via Southern SARE: A University of Arkansas study has found that using high tunnels in berry production can increase yields, extend the harvest season, and improve fruit quality compared to field production. However, care must…continue reading 
Researchers at Texas A&M are screening various spinach varieties to identify those with both improved nitrogen-use efficiency and disease resistance, as a first step toward developing cultivars adapted to production in Texas.
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The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service now has an online Herbicide Injury Database that shows images of different plants' responses to herbicides. The plants included in the database included vegetable and field crops, as…continue reading 
This week we planted cool-season cover crops on the Cannon Horticulture Plots: a mixture of grain rye, hairy vetch and Alsike clover. For a wealth of resources on how and why we use cover crops,…continue reading 
Anyone who’s attended a Kerr Center horticulture workshop in the last umpteen years has been exposed to the idea that crop rotations confer numerous benefits both on the soils they’re carried out on, and on the crops that grow in those soils. Studies hot off the academic presses have just added more support to the notion.
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Two new studies by researchers at the University of California highlight the benefits of keeping native vegetation and crop fields in close proximity. In one, researchers found that hedgerows planted near tomato rows created habitat…continue reading 
"Even in organic no-till," muses George Kuepper, "you can still get caught." He's surveying a small plot of ground that was tilled up for a demonstration for the May 9 plasticulture workshop. Heavy rains forced…continue reading 
After several years of large-scale demonstration work for the Beginning Farmer Program and Resilient Farmer Project, the horticulture program is shifting gears. Three of the four fields in the Cannon Horticulture Plots will be moving…continue reading 