Success StoryNutritional Monitoring of Greenhouse Crops
Nutritional Monitoring of Greenhouse Crops
Author: W. Garrett Owen
Planning Unit: Horticulture
Major Program: Horticulture, Commercial
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
Fert, Dirt, and Squirt (fertdirtandsquirt.com) is a nutritional monitoring of greenhouse crops portal that was developed to provide crop-specific nutritional information. To date, the website has received 24,377 page views with users representing 107 countries. Nationally, greenhouse growers from all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia represent 65% of the total users and account for 68% of the 17 top-producing floriculture states. Over the past year, site traffic on the website has increased by 36% (6,427 page views) and 83% of the users were new thus indicating nutritional monitoring is gaining considerable national and global attention. During 2020 - 2021, 12 additional nutritional monitoring factsheets were created. A re-designed stand-alone website was also commissioned.
Stories by W. Garrett Owen
e-GRO Alerts and Blogs
Electronic Grower Resources Online (e-GRO) was originally created in 2012 where Alerts style bulleti... Read More
Nutritional Monitoring of Greenhouse Crops
Fert, Dirt, and Squirt (fertdirtandsquirt.com) is a nutritional monitoring of greenhouse crops porta... Read More
Stories by Horticulture
Hands-on high tunnel agent training increases agent knowledge and confidence
High tunnels are primarily use for specialty crop production, including fruit and vegetables, and ha... Read More
Early-planted spring broccoli can reduce pesticide applications and increase marketable yields
Broccoli production in Kentucky has grown by nearly seven fold from 2012 to 2017 (USDA, 2017). Accor... Read More
Stories by Horticulture, Commercial
Delivering of information on sampling and studies on the South American Palm Weevil for Dominican Republic
I was solicited to present in-person however to avoid risk this task was conducted online using zoom... Read More
Ambrosia beetles in nursery and fruit Detection, Identification and management
Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) are boring insects that inoculate species s... Read More
© 2024 University of Kentucky, Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment