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  • From: "breck" <bcarden AT breckinridgegroup.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Time study
  • Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:15:42 -0500

Andy, would you share info on the Japanese transplanter?

Farmer Breck


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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Andy Fellenz
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:40 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Time study

Whereever I can afford it and it looks like it will pay, I am trying to
replace hand labor with equipment.

I have purchased two transplanters to reduce transplanting time - one is
hand operated from Japan and will be used for greens in the hoophouses
and some alliums, while the other is on a 3pt mount and will be used for
almost everything I set out. I also purchased a cultivating tractor to
reduce the amount of time spent on weeding. I will put the drip
irrigation in the hoophouses on a timer this season to ensure that it
turns on and off when I need it (there were several times last season
when I forgot to turn it off and it ran a few hours too long). I also
scaled up my implements to reduce the amount of time required to prepare
a field for planting.

Andrew King wrote:
> Has anyone found any Techniques to save time ?
> Was there anything you did last year that was a waste of time ?
>
> Andy King
> Sunflower King's Farm
> PA Zone 6
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