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Pepper
General Production Information
Midwest Vegetable Production Guide (ID-56) - Pepper Section (pdf)
Peppers (The Ohio State University) (pdf)
Bell Peppers (University of Kentucky) (pdf)
Insect Pests and their Management
Vegetable Insect Identification (E-65-W) (html)
Common Vegetable Insects (E-88) (html)
Pepper Insect ID Web Site at Purdue Entomology
Diseases and their Management
Vegetable MD Online - Pepper Fact Sheets (Cornell University) (Web site)
Nutritional Disorders and their Management
Blossom-End Rot in Tomatoes (University of Massachusetts) (pdf) Good description of the disorder. Information is applicable to peppers also. (pdf)
Blossom-End Rot of Tomato, Pepper, and Eggplant (The Ohio State University) (html)
Photos of Blossom-End Rot on Bell and Jalapeno Pepper (html)
Postharvest Handling
Produce Facts - Bell Pepper (UC Davis) (html)
Illustrated Guides to Grading Vegetables - Sweet Pepper
Economics and Marketing
USDA Grade Standards (pdf)

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

Articles from USDA-ERS

Commodity Highlight: Bell Peppers (pdf)

Sweet Peppers: Saved by the Bell Agricultural Outlook/December 2001 (pdf)

Cost of Fresh Market Sweet Bell Pepper Production in Macomb County, Michigan (Staff Paper 2002-33) (Michigan State University) (pdf)

2002 MSU Bell Pepper Budget for above paper (Michigan State University) (xls)

2003 Kentucky Commercial Production Budget Updates (University of Kentucky) (pdf)
Research Reports

Response of Bell Pepper to Planting Date (Iowa State University) (pdf)

Biological Control of European Corn Borers in Bell Peppers in 2002 Fruit and Vegetable Crops Research Report (University of Kentucky) (pdf) Complete report is a 65-pg. document. See p. 52.
Research Reports from The Ohio State University (Web site) Variety trials
See also Midwestern Vegetable Variety Trial Report

International Pepper Conference

Proceedings of the 16th International Pepper Conference

Bacterial Spot Resistance, Yield and Quality of Bell and Specialty Peppers (pdf)

More detail about this research is available from the Univeristy of Kentucky's 2000 Fruit and Vegetable Crops Research Report (html) and 2001 Fruit and Vegetable Crops Research Report (PR-452) (pdf).

Book of Abstracts of the 17th Annual International Pepper Conference.

Organizations
World Pepper Organization - 2006 World Pepper Convention
The Chile Pepper Institute
Other Pepper Links
Pepper Links from HORT 410, Vegetable Crops Course at Purdue
Search for "pepper" on Purdue Web pages
Pepperclicks.com



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