Production

The Potato Association of America Handbook

Ron E. Voss

Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.

Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.

Conservation tillage farming systems protect water and soil resources while still letting the grower produce a commercially viable crop. Less tillage also means less labor and equipment time, and that translates into lower overall production costs.

By using cover cropping and conservation tillage, processing tomato growers can reduce their costs and improve their soil at the same time, while still producing an economical crop.

Using this guide you'll learn how drip irrigation can deliver water and chemicals more precisely and uniformly to your tomato crop. Drip irrigation can increase your yield and revenue, reduce water and fertilizer costs, and curtail diseases such as Phytophthora root rot.

You'll also learn about design elements that affect the uniformity of application, how to design and maintain and system, and other factors to consider in system design such as the selection of pumps, filters, injection equipment, and flow meters.

California farmers grow more than 550,000 tons of fresh-market tomatoes a year. This publication gives you concise information on culture, pest management, and marketing for this important crop.

Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.

Basic information for commercial bell pepper producers, including information on crop climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.