HOS 5565 - ADVANCED VEGETABLE PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES
Section 9455
Period 5, 11:45am-12:35pm,
MWF
2316 Fifield Hall
Instructor:
Daniel J. Cantliffe
1249 Fifield Hall
Phone: (352) 392-1928 x 203
Fax: (352) 392-6479
Email: djc@ifas.ufl.edu
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Jeanmarie M. Mitchell
Phone: (352) 392-9905
Email: jmitche@ufl.edu
Course Description:
Survey of scientific knowledge related to growing, marketing and global competition of vegetable crops as these factors influence production of these commodities.
Course Objectives:
Lectures will be given on various topics. Students will also be expected to participate in a field trip to Guatemala related to current vegetable production practices on an international scale. Lectures and first-hand "field" experiences will be followed by discussion. Also, previously assigned papers dealing with specific topics will be handed out and discussed.
Course Grading: Class Discussion: 200 points
■ Includes oral class room discussion of at least two current papers from the
literature. To be assigned by instructor in class.
Final Exam: 100 points
Fact Sheet: 100 points
Field Trip: March 9 - 16, 2007
The purpose of the field trip is to see, firsthand, global competition from Guatemala during Florida's peak vegetable production season. Through visits to Guatemala City, Antigua, as well as the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, the trip will focus on the types of technologies Guatemalan producers use.
Students will have the opportunity to observe seedling and greenhouse production, cool season packing houses, port facilities, as well as production of broccoli, lettuce, spinach, onion, snow peas, tomato, pepper, pineapple, mango, papaya and lime.
Course Lecture Schedule:
Jan. 8 Introduction and Overview of Vegetable Production Statistics
Jan. 10 Vegetable Production Statistics: Processing vs. Fresh Market
Jan. 12 Vegetable Production Statistics: Processing vs. Fresh Market
Jan. 15 Martin Luther King Holiday - No class
Jan. 17 Vegetable Production Regions: Florida
Jan. 19 The Vegetable Seed Industry and Seed Production
Jan. 22 Seed Testing and Seed Vigor; Florida Seed Law
Jan. 24 Choosing the Right Cultivar and Cultivar Trails: How to Conduct One
Jan. 26 Stand Establishment: Seed Enhancements
Jan. 29 Stand Establishment: Precision Seeding
Jan. 31 Stand Establishment: Transplants
Feb. 2 Root Growth and Development
Feb. 5 Plasticulture
Feb. 7 Plasticulture
Feb. 9 Protected Culture
Feb. 12 Nutrition and Irrigation
Feb. 14 Nutrition and Irrigation
Feb. 16 Nutrition and Irrigation: Hydroponic Culture
Feb. 19 Flowering
Feb. 21 Flowering
Feb. 23 Fruit set, Fruit Development
Feb. 26 Pest Management
Feb. 28 Pest Management through Biological Control
Mar. 2 Organic Vegetable Production
Mar. 5 Organic Vegetable Production
Mar. 7 Organic Vegetable Production
Mar. 9-16 Spring Break - Field trip to vegetable production areas in
Guatemala
Mar. 19 Mechanization of Vegetable Production
Mar. 21 Mechanization of Vegetable Production
Mar. 23 Postharvest Handling
Mar. 26 Food Safety
Mar. 28 Biotechnology: Its Role in the Future of Vegetable Production
Mar. 30 International Aspects of Modern Vegetable Production
Apr. 2 International Aspects of Modern Vegetable Production
Apr. 4 Global Competition
Apr. 6 Global Competition: What it Means to U.S. Specialty Crop Producers
Apr. 9 Specialty Vegetables
Apr. 11 Marketing
Apr. 13
Apr. 16
Apr. 18 Review Fact Sheets - Student Presentations
Apr. 20 Review Fact Sheets - Student Presentations
Apr. 23 Review Fact Sheets - Student Presentations
Apr. 25 Review - Classes end