Before I came to Halifax County as an extension agent, I was at the University of Maryland working on a Master's degree. As part of my thesis I studied different strawberry systems that were common in Maryland and areas farther North, comparing the environmental, economic, and pick your own consumer preference aspects of these systems. Many years later, I am now starting to get some of the research from my thesis published in scientific journals. The first of what I hope will be three papers was published by the journal HortTechnology in October 2007. I can't provide a link to the paper (and I'm not sure anyone would want to read the whole thing), but the organization that publishes the journal, the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), recently put together a short and sweet press release summarizing the findings in the paper. You can see it here if you are interested: http://ashs.org/pressrelease/?p=16
A second paper from this work comparing the environmental impacts of the systems has been ubmitted to another ASHS journal and will, I hope, be published soon.
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