Market Farming

["Shoemaker, William H" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>]

Some conventional growers use dessicants that are sprayed on to get the 
foliage burned down before harvest. You probably don't want to use 
conventional burn-down dessicants, but I wonder if 20% vinegar would work? It 
makes a pretty decent burn-down herbicide. Anyone know if it'll work on 
mature potato vines?

Bill
William H. Shoemaker,
Northern Illinois Viticulturist - IGGVA
Illinois Grape Growers and Vinters Association
wshoemak AT illinois.edu

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[vaspencer AT sisna.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 7:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] potato vine beater?

Katherine,
    It looks like we may finally get our rain this weekend.  I hope not
too much before we get 2 acres of potatoes out.

How does anyone else in short seasons get their potato vines to die so
they can harvest before it gets late?  I have already had some spuds
on/near the surface freeze when we got a blast from the north bringing
the south end of the patch down to 16 F and the north end to 23 F, which
finally finished off the vines on the north end.  I have not been able
to find a vine beater/chopper around here.

Vern in NORTH Idaho, where the only other person with this many spuds
inherited his vine chopper.
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