Dr. Ted Bilderback   
	                Professor and Extension Nursery Specialist  
	              Department of Horticultural Science  
	              Box 7609  
	              North Carolina State University  
	              Raleigh , NC 27695-7609  
	              Tel: (919)-515-1201  
	              http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/nursery/  
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	      Ted  Bilderback is a professor and Nursery Crops Extension Specialist at  North Carolina State University where he has been a member of the  Horticultural Science Department since 1977. His B.S. and M.S. degrees  in biology and botany were received from Emporia State University,  Emporia, KS and he received his Ph.D, in Horticulture from Kansas State  University in 1976.  
	      Ted's research and extension  programs have focused on environmentally conscious cultural practices  for growing nursery stock with emphasis on container substrates, plant  and substrate nutrient levels and irrigation management.  
	      He  received the American Association of Nurserymen's Extension Award in  1993, the Southern Nurserymen's Association Porter Henegar Memorial  Award for Research in 1995, the Extension Education Award from the  North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in 1995 for his extension  education program "Environmentally Compatible Nursery Production  Practices" and in 1999, Ted received one of the six Environmental  Awards from the Southern Nursery Association as well at the N.C. State  College of Ag and Life Sciences Outstanding Extension Service Award.  
           
	        
	        
	        
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