Claim · model-written summary
Cut harvest has lower cost than shucking for collards.
- Taxon
- COLLARDS
Brassica oleracea var. viridist0 - Outcome
- coste0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Comparator
- shuckede0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“COLLARDS”
e0“Harvest efficiency is higher and cost is lower with the cut harvest method, but shucked yields are higher and shucked product is preferred by buyers.”
Title
A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO PRODUCTION AND MARKETING FRESH-MARKET COLLARDS IN THE MIDSOUTH
Tina Gray Teaque; Paul W. Teaque HortScience 1993. doi:10.21273/hortsci.28.5.555g
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Recommendation Direct seeding or transplanting followed by cut harvest is optimal for early-season collards.
- Recommendation Direct seeding followed by shucking is appropriate later in the collard season.
- Observation Cut harvest has higher efficiency than shucking for collards.
- Observation Shucked collards have higher yields than cut-harvested collards.
- Observation Buyers prefer shucked collards.
- Recommendation The authors recommend hydrocooling collards and packing them with crushed ice.