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Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options
- From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:22:25 -0400
FWIW Potatoes are dug with a spade which lifts the row and
sends the vines one way
and the potatoes another after sifting out the dirt.
Carrots are harvested by running a coulter or shank on each side of the row
and then
picking up the crop by its tops.
Beets ..red or sugar, are topped in the field and then lifted by concave
discs which
send the crop into devices which load them into trucks.
My favorite books, the books from 1860, which talk of feeding stock on all
manor of nutrient produced on the farm
emphasize that what you have is what you should feed. They loved
roots, but took the steps to market the
finest part of a crop and feed the lessor quality.
I am thinking it would be interesting to see some fact finding on the
callories per acre comparing grains and vegetables.
One thing I know for sure............the cost of labor will be the killer
on any small operation; you cant dig
potatoes with a hoe as cow feed for profit.
MAsteveINE
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[Market-farming] root digger implement options,
KAKerby, 08/18/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, Carla Maness, 08/18/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, MAsteveINE, 08/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options,
Mike Brabo, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, charlie taplin, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, Richard Stewart, 08/19/2012
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, KAKerby, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options, Ryan Wood-Beauchamp, 08/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] root digger implement options,
KAKerby, 08/19/2012
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[Market-farming] Plow or plough,
MAsteveINE, 08/19/2012
- [Market-farming] Spice Bush Berry Pricing, Richard Stewart, 08/19/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Plow or plough,
charlie taplin, 08/19/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Plow or plough, MAsteveINE, 08/20/2012
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[Market-farming] Plow or plough,
MAsteveINE, 08/19/2012
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