SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NECC2103 : High tunnel specialty crop production
- Period Covered: 10/01/2024 to 09/30/2025
- Date of Report: 07/01/2025
- Annual Meeting Dates: 03/27/2025 to 03/27/2025
Participants
Attendees: Di Gioia, Francesco (fxd92@psu.edu) – Pennsylvania State University; Guan,Wenjing (guan40@purdue.edu) – Purdue University, Hatterman-Valenti, Harlene (H.Hatterman.Valenti@ndsu.edu) –North Dakota State University; Wszelaki, Annette (annettew@utk.edu) – Tennessee Cooperative Extension; Zhao, Xin (zxin@ufl.edu) –University of Florida; Scheufele, Susan(sscheufele@umext.umass.edu) – University of Massachusetts; Sideman, Rebecca (becky.sideman@unh.edu) –University of New Hampshire; Jett, Lewis (Lewis.Jett@mail.wvu.edu) – West Virgina State University; Kleinhenz, Matt (kleinhenz.1@osu.edu) – The Ohio State University; Lauri Koenick (lbk75@cornell.edu) – Cornell University, Samantha Willden (saw326@cornell.edu) – Cornell University, Liz Maynard (emaynard@purdue.edu) – Purdue University, Alireza Shokoohi (ashokoohi@umass.edu) – University of Massachusetts, Bruce Hoskins (hoskins@maine.edu) – University of Maine, Kacie Athey (kathey@illinois.edu) – University of Illinois, Adria Fernandez, Julie Grossman (jgross@umn.edu) – University of Minnesota, Judson Reid (jer11@cornell.edu) – Cornell University, Cheryl Sullivan (cfrank@uvm.edu – University of Vermont, Margaret Skinner (mskinner@uvm.edu) – University of Vermont, Anton Bekkerman (anton.bekkerman@unh.edu) – University of New Hampshire, Laura Ingwell (lingwell@purdue.edu) – Purdue University, Heather Grab (heathergrab@psu.edu) – Pennsylvania State University
Agenda and meeting minutes and links to state reports are here:
Link to official project here:
https://www.nimss.org/projects/view/mrp/outline/18781
Link to research topics brainstorm from our last meeting here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ldVR9bb1BNjKbOs66zBNSAGdUjdAmCiC/edit
State report template is here:
The group exchanged information about current research and outreach activities and had a productive discussion about several research questions of interest, barriers to conducting research, and possible ways to overcome those barriers. Meeting remotely increased attendance, though we discussed a plan to meet in-person during the coming year. We made a plan to bring the leadership group/officers together to discuss the pros/cons of continuing this project as a coordinating committee vs. establishing a multistate research project, and also to bringing members who will also attend ASHS together at that conference connect there as well. We concluded by electing a new officer to fill out the slate of officers who will plan future meetings (S Willden – secretary, X. Zhao – chair elect, and F. Di Gioia – past chair).
Accomplishments
We held our third annual meeting, in which 22 research and extension professionals from 13 states came together to share data and discuss research activities and collaborations. We continued conversations about expanding potential multistate collaborations, and we compiled a list of publications, research projects, and collaborative activities in the form of state reports, to facilitate further coordination.