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The members of the UMass Extension Vegetable team are available to respond to questions and concerns of commercial vegetable farmers. Whatever your farm size, if you earn your livelihood growing vegetables, please feel free to contact us via phone, email or mail with concerns on production, management, or marketing.
Robert Bernatzky
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Plant and Soil Science
French Hall, 230 Stockbridge Rd.
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
Amherst, MA 01003
TEL: (413) 545-5222
FAX: (413) 545-3075
Email: rb@psis.umass.edu
Specialty: Plant breeding and genetics
Rich Bonanno
255 Merrimack St.
Methuen, MA 01844
TEL: (978) 682-9563
FAX: (978) 685-6691
E-Mail: rbonanno@umext.umass.edu
Specailty: Weed management in small fruits and vegetables.
Andrew Cavanagh
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Entomology
301 Agricultural Engineering Bldg.
250 Natural Resources Rd.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Mass. 01003
TEL: (413) 545-3696 / (413) 577-3976
FAX: (413) 545-5858
E-Mail: acavanagh@psis.umass.edu
Specialty: Perimeter trap cropping systems, Brassica crops, cucurbit IPM.
Bess Dicklow
Deptartment of Microbiology
203 Morrill Science Center North
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
TEL: (413) 545-3209
FAX: (413) 545-2532
E-Mail: mbdicklow@umext.umass.edu
Specialty: plant disease diagnostics, vegetable disease management.
John Gerber
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Plant and Soil Science
210 French Hall, 230 Stockbridge Rd.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
TEL: (413) 545-5301
FAX: (413) 545-3075
E-Mail: jgerber@psis.umass.edu
Specialty: Sustainable agriculture, holistic management.
Masoud Hashemi
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Plant and Soil Science
Bowditch Hall, 201 Natural Resources Rd.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
TEL: (413) 545-1843
FAX: (413) 545-0260
E-Mail: masoud@psis.umass.edu
Specialty: crop nutrition
Ruth Hazzard
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Entomology
301 Agricultural Engineering Bldg.
250 Natural Resources Rd.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Mass. 01003
TEL: (413) 545-3696
FAX: (413) 545-5858
E-Mail: rhazzard@umext.umass.edu
Website: http://www.umass.edu/ent/faculty_staff/hazzard/index.htm
Specialty: Vegetable Entomology, Organic Pest Management, Vegetable IPM; Team leader for Vegetable Program.
Profile:Ruth Hazzard is team leader for the Vegetable Program and also coordinates the Integrated Crop and Pest Management Project for vegetables. Current on-farm IPM projects include pepper, tomato, pumpkin and winter squash. Her research has focused on insect and disease management in brassicas, sweet corn, tomato, and peppers. Specifically, she has investigated using microbials and oils for control of caterpillar pests of sweet corn and the TOM-CAST disease forecasting system for early blight in tomato. Currently she is involved with studies on biointensive insect management in brassicas, cucurbits, and sweet corn. She edits the Vegetable Notes newsletter, which is produced weekly during the growing season.
Stephen Herbert
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Plant and Soil Science
Bowditch Hall, 201 Natural Resources Rd.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
TEL: (413) 545-2250
FAX: (413) 545-0260
E-Mail: sherbert@psis.umass.edu
Website: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sherbert/
Specialty: Alternative crops, cropping systems, physiology of field and vegetable crops.
John Howell
(retired, available on a consulting basis) Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Plant and Soil Science
West Pelham Rd.
Shutesbury, MA 01072
TEL: (413) 259-1203
E-Mail: howell@umext.umass.edu
Specialty: Vegetable production practices and systems, greenhouse vegetable production, irrigation, crop nutrition
Frank Mangan
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Plant and Soil Science
French Hall, 230 Stockbridge Rd.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
TEL: (413) 545-1178 / (978) 422-6374
E-Mail: fmangan@umext.umass.edu
Specialty: World crops, soil health and fertility, cover crops, compost, marketing.
Pam Westgate
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
Division of Entomology
301 Agricultural Engineering Bldg.
250 Natural Resources Rd.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Mass. 01003
TEL: (413) 545-3696
FAX: (413) 545-5858
E-Mail: westgate@umext.umass.edu
Specialty:Cucurbit, sweet corn and pepper IPM
Robert Wick
Deptartment of Microbiology
203 Morrill Science Center North
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
TEL: (413) 545-1045
FAX: (413) 545-2532
E-Mail: rwick@pltpath.umass.edu
Profile:Rob works with diseases of floricultural and vegetable crops, and plant parasitic nematodes in turf grasses. His current research projects include conventional and biological control of root diseases of floricultural crops, Phytophthora blight of cucurbits, and opulation dynamics and management of nematodes in turf grasses. Rob teaches Diagnostic Plant Pathology, Biological Control, Nematology, and Plant Pathology lab course. He provides a diagnostic service for the greenhouse and vegetable industry, and writes the disease recommendations for the New England Vegetable Management Guide and the New England Greenhouse Floricultural Recommendations.
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