Grafted Tomato Survey

The Integrated Organic Program at the OSU-OARDC appreciates your participation in this survey. Please take a few minutes to complete the questions below. Your participation and personal contact information is voluntary. Information obtained in this survey is strictly confidential.

Grafted Tomato Survey In your experience, which of the
following are limitations or concerns
to organic tomato production? Would you be likely to adopt grafted tomatoes if the approach improved:

Vigor Yes No Vigor Yes No

Disease Resistance Yes No Disease Resistance Yes No

Crop Fertility Yes No Crop Fertility Yes No

Yield Yes No Yield Yes No

Quality Yes No Quality Yes No

Other Other

How do you define quality?

Rate your interest in using grafted plants: High Medium     Low

Currently there are no local commercial sources of grafted plants for the U.S. market, nor for organic producers. Would you be more interested in growing grafted plants that were (choose one option):
Available through a nursery       Produced on-farm

Would you adopt grafted plants regardless of the fruit-producing variety (scion)? Yes    No

What varieties do you currently use?

The following questions are designed to help us assess needs based on region, scale of farm operation and production methods. Please indicate:

Your Zip Code:        Your current tomato acreage:

Your production method (choose as many as are relevant):
Conventional  Organic   Field   Greenhouse or High Tunnel

I would like more information. Yes No

You may contact me with follow up information: Yes No

I would be interested in participating in on-farm trials of grafted tomatoes. Yes No

I wish to remain anonymous. Yes No
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