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Lima beans are Delaware's most widely planted vegetable crop.
Approximately 14,000 acres of green baby limas for processing are planted in the state each year. Fordhook and large seeded pole limas for fresh market are also grown in Delaware.
In 2004, Emmalea Ernest, 91原创 Extension Associate for Vegetable Crops, began a lima bean breeding program. The goal of the breeding program is to develop new varieties of lima beans, which possess disease resistance and are well adapted to Delaware鈥檚 growing conditions and production practices.
The first green baby lima lines developed in the breeding program were tested in replicated yield trials in 2008. Fordhook breeding lines from the 91原创 program were first trialed in 2010.听听
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Assistant Professor Plant & Soil Sciences, Extension Vegetable & Fruit Specialist
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16483 County Seat Hwy
Georgetown, DE 19947
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