Progress Report FY03

Title: Author:
1) Control of Grassy Weeds: Development of a Navel, Highly Specific, Naturally Occuring Bioherbicide D. Armstrong
D. Mills
2) Insect Control in Kentucky Bluegrass and Fine Leaf Fescue Seed Fields in the Pacific Northwest

D. E. Bragg
W. J. Johnston

3) Decreasing Shattering of Grass Seed Crops

M. D. Butler
T. G. Chastain

4) Reducing Herbicide Use and Surface Water Pollution with Vegtative Waterways J. Colquhoun
5) High Straw-Conservation Grass Seed Production to Mitigate Agricultural Impacts in the Pacific Northwest R. P. Dick
6) Maintaining Profitability of Grass Seed Production in the Columbia Basin of Washington and Oregon through Improved Fertilization, Weed and Disease Control Practices

P. Hamm
D. Ball
D. Horneck

7)

Quanifying Emission from Kentucky Bluegrass Field Burning

W. J. Johnston
M. D. Schaaf
8)

Assessment of a Program to Reduce Gene Flow from Transgenic Grass Seed Fields

C. Mallory-Smith
M. Butler
C. Campbell
9) Maintaining Grass Seed Farm Profits by Integrating Conservation Practices - Year 1 M. Mellbye
G. Giannico
J. Steiner
10) Kentucky Bluegrass Straw Utilization: Genetic and Management Factors Influencing Pulping Requirements and Papermaking Properties W. L. Pan
W. T. McKean
W. J. Johnston
L. Edwards
11) Critical Control Points in Grass Straw Bio-Saccharification M. H. Penner
K. Li
12) Cereal Leaf Beetle in Oregon: Potential Impacts on Grass Seed Production S. Rao
13) Integrated Residue Management Systems for Sustained Seed Yield of Kentucky Bluegrass Without Burning - Phase I D. Thill
J. Johnson-Maynard
J. McCaffrey
L. VanTassell
J.D. Wulfhorst
S. Guy
14) Suppression of Kentucky Bluegrass Stands with Herbicides as Part of Non-Thermal Residue Management D. Thill
15) Defining Optimum Nitrogen Fertilization Practices for Fine Fescue and Annual Ryegrass Seed Production Systems in the Willamette Valley W. C. Young III
M. E. Mellbye
G. A. Gingrich
J. M. Hart
16) National Forage Seed Production Research Center 20903 Progress Report USDA ARS
HFSPRC
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