Precision Planting Lettuce

Precision Planting Lettuce

Compared to current planting practices using naked lettuce seed, precision planting coated lettuce seed can result in substantially reduced thinning costs, increases in number of marketable lettuce heads per acre, and higher average head weight. The use of coated seed, however, requires more attenti...

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Main Author: Harriott, B. L.
Language:en_US
Published: College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) 1965
Subjects:
Agriculture > Arizona
Vegetables > Arizona
Lettuce > Arizona
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/213830
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spelling ndltd-arizona.edu-oai-arizona.openrepository.com-10150-2138302015-10-23T04:50:53Z Precision Planting Lettuce Harriott, B. L. Agriculture -- Arizona Vegetables -- Arizona Lettuce -- Arizona Compared to current planting practices using naked lettuce seed, precision planting coated lettuce seed can result in substantially reduced thinning costs, increases in number of marketable lettuce heads per acre, and higher average head weight. The use of coated seed, however, requires more attention to seedbed preparation, planting depths, irrigation schedules, and stand maintenance. Hill - dropping naked seed does not appear to offer advantages over conventional planting practices except in a slight reduction of seed cost per acre. 1965-08 text Article http://hdl.handle.net/10150/213830 Vegetables: A College of Agriculture Report en_US Series P-2 370002 College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
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topic Agriculture -- Arizona
Vegetables -- Arizona
Lettuce -- Arizona
spellingShingle Agriculture -- Arizona
Vegetables -- Arizona
Lettuce -- Arizona
Harriott, B. L.
Precision Planting Lettuce
description Compared to current planting practices using naked lettuce seed, precision planting coated lettuce seed can result in substantially reduced thinning costs, increases in number of marketable lettuce heads per acre, and higher average head weight. The use of coated seed, however, requires more attention to seedbed preparation, planting depths, irrigation schedules, and stand maintenance. Hill - dropping naked seed does not appear to offer advantages over conventional planting practices except in a slight reduction of seed cost per acre.
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