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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Baby Squash
  • Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 15:47:35 -0500 (CDT)

>I am a middle school math teacher, but I don't know
>either. It is the same way with potatoes. You can dig
>and sell as "new potatoes" or wait and let them get
>bigger. At what point do size, yield, and price all
>cross? If school wasn't out tomorrow, maybe we could work
>on this.

Keep in mind there is a plant response to harvesting. As you harvest, you
free the plant to set more fruit. If you leave fruit on the plant, those
resources are tied up by the plant. I'm sure there are limits, but it might
be a nice study to look at total production of crops at various harvest sizes
and link harvest labor, market prices, salability and shrink to squash
harvest size.

Bill

William H Shoemaker, UI-NRES
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
535 Randall Road St Charles, IL 60174
630-584-7254; FAX-584-4610




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