2018 CucCAP Economics Team Annual Report

Progress Reports and Work Plans Team members: Marco Palma, Team Leader (Texas A&M Univ.) & Lius Ribera (Texas A&M Univ.) Perform economic analysis, cost of production/disease control Define, parameterize, simulate, and validate production variables based on cucurbit production crop budgets Completed: Macro and micro economic variables were collected to develop the economic model, such as […]

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2018 CucCAP Extension and Outreach Team Annual Report

Progress Reports and Work Plans Team members: Jonathan Schultheis (NC State University), Mary Hausbeck (Michigan St. Univ.), Angela Linares (Univ. Puerto Rico), Jim McCreight (USDA, ARS), Lina Quesada (N. Carolina St. Univ.),  Chris Smart (Cornell Univ.), Linda Wessel Beaver (Univ. Puerto Rico)  reported on their lab’s progress and plans. 3.2. Provide readily accessible information to facilitate disease control […]

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First Annual CucCAP Team Meeting

The CucCAP research team met in East Lansing, MI on June 1 & 2, 2016. The meeting agenda included an overview of project goals, reports from the seven research teams, commodity team meetings, and views from the cucurbit and seed industries followed by workshops on core collections and germplasm management, planning for representative farms economic analysis, Gene nomenclature, Extension plans and […]

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