Cole Crops
Michigan Cole Crop Industry Research Priorities
Updated 2015
Contact Information
Ben Phillips, 1 Tuscola St, Suite 100A, Saginaw, MI 48607, phill406@msu.edu
DISEASES
Head rots
- Cultural control strategies
- Water management
- Nutrient management
- Variety evaluation
Black rot
- Transplant and seedbed sanitation
- Seed treatments
- Variety evaluation
INSECTS AND NEMATODES
Cabbage maggot
- Cultural and chemical control strategies
- Greenhouse control
Swede midge
- Determining the presence of this new pest throughout the state
- Organic control strategies
- Variety evaluation
Thrips
- Cultural and chemical control strategies
Nematodes
- Management of brassica-parasitic nematodes
OTHER PRODUCTION ISSUES
- Nutrient management under drip-irrigated and non-irrigated conditions
- Variety evaluation of self-blanching cauliflower
- Cover crop rotations as non-hosts of swede midge
- Copper usage techniques
- Economic cost-of-production analyses