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Lettuce
General Production Information
Midwest Vegetable Production Guide (ID-56) - Salad and Greens Crops Section (pdf)
Lettuce (The Ohio State University) (pdf)
Greenhouse lettuce, greens and herbs (University of Kentucky) (pdf)
Insect Pests and their Management
Vegetable Insect Identification (E-65-W) (html)
Common Vegetable Insects (E-88) (html)
Leaf Crop Insect ID Web Site at Purdue Entomology
Diseases and their Management
Lettuce Diseases (University of Arizona) (Web site) Includes: Bottom Rot, Downy Mildew, Leaf Drop, Powdery Mildew, Viruses, Tipburn
Lettuce Diseases (Texas A&M) (Web site) Includes: Big Vein, Damping-off, Downy Mildew, Mosaid, Nematodes, Scerotinia Drop, Soft Rot, Tip Burn
Vegetable MD Online - Leafy Vegetable Fact Sheets (Cornell University) (Web site) Includes: Nematodes, Viruses.
Nutritional Disorders and their Management
Tipburn of Lettuce (University of Arizona) (html)
Postharvest Handling
Produce Facts - Lettuce, Crisphead (UC Davis) (html)
Produce Facts - Lettuce, Romaine (UC Davis) (html)
Postharvest Handling Systems: flower, leafy and stem vegetables (UC Davis) (html)
Economics and Marketing
USDA Grade Standards - Lettuce or Greenhouse Leaf Lettuce or Endive, Escarole and Chicory (pdf)

USDA-Economic Research Service: Vegetable and Melon Briefing Room (Web site)

Articles from USDA-ERS

Recent Changes in Marketing and Trade Practices in the U.S. Lettuce and Fresh-Cut Vegetable Industries ERS Electronic Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 767. 19pp, May 2001

The Lettuce and Fresh-Cut Vegetable Industries: Marketing Channels, Sales, Arrangements, Fees, and Services Vegetables and Specialties Situation and Outlook/VGS-283/April 2001 (pdf)

Lettuce: In and Out of the Bag Agricultural Outlook/April 2001 (pdf)

Leafy Greens: The Foundation of the Vegetable Industry Agricultural Outlook/February 1998 (pdf)
Greenhouse Lettuce Production
A Handbook for the Production of CEA-grown Hydroponic Lettuce (Cornell University) (Web site)
Research Reports
1998 Lettuce Cultivar Trials (The Ohio State University) (html)
Organizations
British Leafy Salads Association (Web site)
Other Lettuce Links
Lettuce Links from HORT 410, Vegetable Crops Course at Purdue
Search for "lettuce" on Purdue Web pages



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