Claim · model-written summary
Gentler handling reduced sound splits by 4.00%.
- Taxon
- peanuts
Arachis hypogaeae0 - Treatment
- more gentle handlinge0
- Outcome
- sound splitse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 4.00%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Loose shelled kernels and sound splits were decreased by 1.83 and 4.00%. respectively, by more gentle handling of the peanuts (P≤0.05).”
Title
Handling Farmer Stock Peanuts at Warehouses with Potato Equipment1
P. D. Blankenship; M. C. Lamb Peanut Science 1996. doi:10.3146/i0095-3679-23-1-4
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Potato handling caused less mechanical damage than conventional handling.
- Intervention effect Potato handling improved peanut value.
- Intervention effect Gentler handling reduced loose shelled kernels by 1.83%.
- Mechanism Gentler handling reduced potential aflatoxin contamination in storage.
- Observation Investment costs of the two handling systems were similar.
- Association Potato equipment could raise annual net peanut value by $23,758 for a new 3629-t warehouse.
- Recommendation Converting an existing warehouse to potato handling was judged economically infeasible.