Growing Innovations: Exploring Vegetable Production & Alternative Cropping With Dr. Ted McAvoy
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we delve into the world of vegetable production, irrigation, and alternative cropping systems with Dr. Ted McAvoy, an Assistant Professor of Horticulture at the University of Georgia. Dr. McAvoy's field research focuses on all aspects of vegetable production in Georgia – including variety performance, disease resistance, fertilizer, irrigation, and alternative crops.
Dr. McAvoy is on a mission to increase the productivity, sustainability, and profitability of crops using practical and data-driven recommendations. How does he accomplish this? Tune in now to see for yourself…
Jump in to discover:
- What "variety trials" are, and how they impact crop genetics.
- The biggest issues that vegetable producers are facing.
- How plant genetics can be modified to help develop resistance against pests and diseases.
To find out more about Dr. McAvoy and his work, click here now!
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest is Dr. Ted McAvoy. He's at the University of Georgia. He's an assistant |
| 0:45.4 | professor of water culture. He's a vegetable extension specialist. So we have to talk about |
| 0:50.4 | vegetable production, irrigation, and some alternate crops that may be in the works. |
| 0:55.3 | So that's said, thanks for coming. |
| 0:57.3 | Thank you for inviting me. I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, tell me a bit about your background briefly and then you know what I'm interested in |
| 1:03.2 | horticulture and then we'll talk about your your current work. Well all my |
| 1:07.2 | degrees bachelor's masters and PhD are in horticulture. |
| 1:12.6 | I've always specialized in vegetables, |
| 1:14.6 | whether it was weed control, fumigants, |
| 1:19.1 | or variety trials. |
| 1:21.4 | I think just prior to coming to University of Georgia I was at I did |
| 1:27.5 | Variety trials. I was with cingenta vegetable seeds doing field trials in Florida and Georgia, and sometimes even in New Jersey. |
| 1:36.6 | So all up the East Coast, start out with large seeded vegetables, sweet corn and green beans, and I went over to solenaceous crops, |
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