Frank Mangan

Extension Professor Emeritus—Vegetable Crop Horticulture & Marketing

Retired and Emeritus Faculty and Staff
Frank Mangan
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Frank Mangan, standing in a misty field, trimming the ends off a leafy plant.

Sustainable Vegetable Production and Marketing Systems

A focus of my program has been to evaluate production and marketing systems for vegetable and herb crops, with an emphasis on crops popular among immigrant communities. Since 2003, farmers in Massachusetts made more than five million dollars in retail sales of crops introduced from my program, crops that had not been grown in Massachusetts before. A majority of the research done by my program is at the UMass Research Farm in Deerfield MA. We also evaluate practical postharvest and pest management strategies for these new crops. Our program works closely with nutritionists at UMass to provide nutritionally balanced and culturally-appropriate recipes for these immigrant groups. This webpage provides information on the crops evaluated and introduced by my program: http://www.worldcrops.org/

Starting in 2011, we have begun to work with urban growers as part of an overall systems approach to provide fresh produce to urban populations. As part of this work we’re also evaluating the carbon footprint used to produce and transport fresh produce to urban settings.  We have created a Facebook page to report on this work:  https://www.facebook.com/umassurbanag

Curriculum Vitae

Extension Professor Emeritus

My program implements outreach, teaching, and research to establish sustainable production practices on vegetable and herb crops grown by commercial farmers in the Northeastern United States. A growing focus of my program since 2000 has been on establishing production and marketing systems for vegetable and herb crops popular among the large and growing immigrant communities in this region, in particular native speakers of Spanish and Portuguese. Most of the research done by my program has been at the UMass Research Farm in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where we also evaluate practical postharvest and pest management strategies for these new crops. My program has also worked closely with nutritionists at UMass to provide nutritionally balanced and culturally appropriate recipes for these immigrant groups using locally grown fresh vegetables and herbs. Starting in 2011, we have begun to work with urban growers as part of an overall systems approach to provide fresh produce to urban populations in Massachusetts and the region.

Since 1995, my program has brought in over three million dollars in grants and contracts to implement outreach and research activities.

EDUCATION

1998 Ph.D.   University of Massachusetts (Cover Cropping Systems)

1991 M.S.   University of Massachusetts (Weed Science)

1986 B.S.   University of Massachusetts (Agriculture)

1981 B.A.   Salem State University (History)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2016-current. Extension Professor Emeritus, Stockbridge School of Agriculture (SSA),UMass Amherst

2016-2020. Extension Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture (SSA),UMass Amherst

2015- 2018. Director, SSA Agriculture Learning Center, UMass Amherst

2006-2016 Extension Associate Professor, SSA, UMass Amherst

1998-2006 Extension Assistant Professor, Dept. Plant. Soil and Insect Sciences, UMass Amherst

1991-1998 Extension Specialist. UMass Extension. UMass Amherst

ACADEMIC COURSES TAUGHT

  • 1999 - 2017. SSA 325. Sustainable Vegetable Production
  • 2016 - SSA 397. Cuban Food Systems, taught in Cuba
  • 2017 – 2020. SSA 258. Urban Agriculture

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • 2018. Etemadi, Fatemeh, Masoud Hashemi, OmidReza Zandvakili, Francis X. Mangan. 2018. Phenology, yield and growth pattern of fava bean varieties. International Journal of Plant Production. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42106-018-0023-1
  • 2018. Etemadi, Fatemeh, Masoud Hashemi, Wesley Autio, Francis X. Mangan. 2016. Yield and Accumulation Trend of Biomass and L-Dopa in Different parts of Eight Faba bean Cultivars. Crop Science. DOI:10.2135/cropsci2018.03.01722016 Sciarappa, W.J., J. Simon, R. Govindasamy, K. Kelley, F. Mangan, S. Zhang, S. Arumugam, P.  Nitzsche, R. Van Vranken, S. Komar, A. Ayeni, G. McAvoy, C. Park, W. Reichert, D. Byrnes, Q.  Wu and B. Shilling. 2016. Asian Crops Overview: Consumer Preference and Cultivar Growth on  the East Coast of the United States. HortSci. vol. 51 no. 11 1344-1350.
  • 2012 Mangan, F., Barros, Z., Fernandes , C., Moreira, M., Finger, F. and Almeida , G. 2012.  Devoloping Sustainable Production Practices for New Tropical Vegetables for the  Northeastern United States. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 936:53 60 http://www.actahort.org/books/936/936_5.htm
  • 2011 Govindasamy, R. R. Van Vranken, W. Sciarapa, A. Aveni, V. Puduri, K. Pappas, J. Simon, F. Mangan, M. Lamberts, G. McAvoy. 2011. Ethnic Crop Opportunities for Growers on the East Coast:  A Demand Assessment. Journal of Extension.  http://www.joe.org/joe/2010december/rb2.php
  • 2010 Govindasamy, R., R. VanVranken, W. Sciarappa, A. Ayeni, V.S. Puduri, K. Pappas, J.E. Simon, F. Mangan, M. Lamberts, and G. McAvoy. 2010. Consumers' Shopping Patterns and Expenditures on Ethnic Produce: Case Study from the Eastern Coastal U.S.A. Journal of ASFMRA. Vol. 73, No. 1, Pg 36-49.
  • 2007 Mangan, F. R. Mendonça, M. Moreira. S. Nunes, F. Finger, Z. Barros, H. Galvão, G.Almeida, and M. Anderson. 2007. Production and marketing of vegetables for the ethnic markets in the United States. Revista Horticultura Brasileira. Horticultura Brasileira 26: 006-014.
  • 2000 Mangan, F.X., C.S. Vavrina, J. Howell. 2000. Transplanting Depth Affects Pepper Lodging and Maturity HortScience. Vol. 35. Pp. 593-595.
  • 2000 Mangan, F. A. Carter, M. Mazzola, M. Rulevich, R. Hazzard, R. Bernatzky, M. Pearson, Webber, P. Belanger, C. Touchette, and P. Fischer. 2000. The Introduction of
  • Latino Crops to Farmers in the State of Massachusetts, USA.  Proceedings of the Interamerican Society for Tropical Horticulture. 391-393.