Tob. Sci., 1983, 27-19, p. 70-74, ISSN. 0082-4523
Effects of clipping flue-cured tobacco plantbeds on transplant production efficiency and uniformity
Soil Science Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA; Agricultural Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA; ARS/SEA USDA, Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton, GA, USA
Tobacco transplants are characteristically nonuniform in size on conventional plantbeds. Clipping plantbeds offers a means of increasing the uniformity among transplants and the proportion of usable transplants that can be harvested for...