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🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Porpo's Almanac. Today we're joined by Dr. Kirk Pompur from Kentucky State |
0:20.1 | University's Pawpaw program. |
0:22.3 | Now the Paw Research Program is part of the KSU Land Grant Program and is the only full-time |
0:27.6 | Paw Paw Research Program in the world. The program focuses on improving propagation methods, |
0:32.9 | developing orchard management recommendations, conducting regional variety trials, and works to make the fruit |
0:38.6 | more available for the general public. Dr. Kirk Pompers, a researcher at KSU, who has overseen |
0:44.2 | the program for over two decades. He's authored numerous publications on Pawpaw, including |
0:49.7 | research articles on propagation techniques, cultivar development, and has released several selections. |
0:56.2 | We chat about the future of Pawpaw and where the research is going today. |
1:00.4 | I think you guys will really enjoy this conversation. |
1:02.9 | So tune in and let us know what you think. |
1:09.3 | Dr. Pompter, thanks so much for joining us. |
1:11.2 | Could you please tell us a little bit about your background and what you're doing over at Kentucky State? |
1:15.5 | Sure. |
1:15.9 | Well, I've been a horticulturist for a long time. |
1:18.8 | I actually started off and earned a master's in a doctorate at University of Minnesota and Oregon State and horticulture. |
1:26.0 | And so I start working in orchids and beans and hazelnuts and strawberries and a range of |
1:35.7 | different crops. |
1:36.3 | I think that kind of prepared me then for when I interviewed for a position here at Kentucky |
1:41.2 | State University, which involved Paw Paw back in 1998. |
1:45.3 | And so I've been here since that time in 1998, now as a professor of horticulture. |
1:51.0 | But we're really mainly working on Pawpaw, but we do work on some other native crops also. |
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