Annual/Termination Reports:

[10/18/2022]

Report Information

Participants

Bekkerman, Anton (anton.bekkerman@unh.edu) – University of New Hampshire; Black, Brent (brent.black@usu.edu) – Utah State University; Di Gioia, Francesco (fxd92@psu.edu) – Pennsylvania State University; Gao, Zhifeng (zfgao@ufl.edu) – University of Florida; Gu, Sanjun (sgu@ncat.edu) – North Carolina A&T State University; Guan, Wenjing (guan40@purdue.edu) – Purdue University, Hatterman-Valenti, Harlene (H.Hatterman.Valenti@ndsu.edu) – North Dakota State University; Hoskins, Bruce (hoskins@maine.edu) – University of Maine; Maynard, Elizabeth (emaynard@purdue.edu) – Purdue University; Reid, Judson (jer11@cornell.edu) – Cornell University; Scheufele, Susan (sscheufele@umext.umass.edu) – University of Massachusetts; Sideman, Rebecca (becky.sideman@unh.edu) – University of New Hampshire; Skinner, Margaret (mskinner@uvm.edu) – University of Vermont; Sullivan, Cheryl (cfrank@uvm.edu) – University of Vermont; Wallingford, Anna (anna.wallingford@unh.edu) – University of New Hampshire; Wszelaki, Annette (annettew@utk.edu) – Tennessee Cooperative Extension; Zhao, Xin (zxin@ufl.edu) – University of Florida

Brief Summary of Minutes

Agenda and links to state reports are here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FW0urqoA0Pj65OCjEzL6NJL7M6thvkLB?usp=sharing

Recordings of our project meetings are also available here:

Day 2 – 1 July 2022: https://media.unh.edu/media/NECC+2103+Meeting+7.1.22/1_azdthpnp

Day 1 – 29 June 2022: https://media.unh.edu/media/NECC+2103+Meeting+6.29.22/1_pzo9p8ly

 

 

Brief summary of minutes of annual meeting:

Project participants came together for two half-days via zoom; and followed the agenda linked above.

We discussed overall objectives of this new coordinating committee, and also discussed the implications of becoming a research project. The overall consensus of the group is that we should spend some time coalescing as a coordinating committee, and re-assess after a few years of collaborative information exchange.

 

Seventeen participants representing 12 states attended the meeting, and each state gave a report of outreach and research activities relating to high tunnel specialty crop production happening in their state. This served as introduction among members, and all participants also shared new high tunnel resources and publications developed, ongoing and planned research, and identified research questions of interest.

 

The group compiled a list of research questions of interest, and identified some topics of broad interest (e.g. irrigation strategies, nutrient management, mitigating consequences of continuous production, pest management and participatory research). Lastly, we elected officers responsible for planning subsequent annual meetings (X. Zhao – secretary, F. Di Gioia – chair-elect, and R. Sideman – chair).

Accomplishments

<p>We held our first annual meeting, in which research and extension professionals from over 12 states came together to share data and research results. We established a team to plan future meetings, and initiated conversations about potential multistate collaborations.</p>

Publications

Impact Statements

1. Participants compiled a list of high tunnel-related publications, research projects, and collaborative activities in the form of state reports as a first step in coordinating efforts.

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