Root Vegetable Articles & Analysis
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When brothers Wyatt and Frank Scott returned home to their Lucama, North Carolina family farm after earning degrees from NC State University in 2016, they planted 18 acres of sweet potatoes. This year, 200 acres of the root vegetable will be hand harvested off of 46” beds and they have plans to build infrastructure to expand even further. ...
Recent years ecological food is becoming more and more popular. Society wants to eat healthy products, of known origin and free of harmful chemicals that have an impact on our health. Where to get such food? The answer is simple – you should ask the source, which in this case are farmers. Despite the demand for ecological products is large, only a few producers decide to grow ecological ...
Root vegetables season The autumn start is the time when vegetable producers have a lot of work. ...
From sowing to harvest As a agriculture machinery producer we offer the machines that will allow you to create the best conditions for growing root vegetables. Carrot, parsley, celery, parsnip, beetroot and onion, radishes, cucumbers, for instance. ...
Below is a chart showing diameter and root length measurements for each treatment and lettuce type at the time of harvest. As mentioned previously, the F6-grown lettuce size was more compact and had longer roots than the F3-grown lettuce. This was the case for both green and red lettuce varieties. The main take-away from all of this is that by using LEDs we ...
Sector Consultation The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association partnered with Vineland to host a research strategy workshop in November 2014 with the goal of defining the top five research priorities for each crop group. ...
A total of 71 samples from 23 different foodstuffs, namely root vegetables (beetroot, carrot, onion, potato, radish and turnip), leafy vegetables (lettuce, parsley, spinach and white cabbage) and lentils, kidneys, soya, eggs, rice, meat, tomato paste, cooking oil, salami, tea, bread, sausage and cubic sugar, were purchased from markets and ...