Abstract
Abstract Sixteen management systems for early muskmelon production were compared for marketable yield, gross revenue, treatment cost, net economic value, and benefit-cost index. Black plastic mulch and/or transplants increased yields, gross return, and net economic value over a conventional practice of bare soil, direct-seeded production. Row covers did not increase yields or gross returns. When net economic value and benefit cost criteria were evaluated, yield maximization was not necessarily the best strategy. Instead, careful analysis should be given to added costs of production practices and the added revenue these practices will generate.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch and/or transplants increased marketable yield relative to bare-soil direct seeding.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- Black plastic mulch and/or transplantse0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- bare soil, direct-seeded productione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Black plastic mulch and/or transplants increased yields, gross return, and net economic value over a conventional practice of bare soil, direct-seeded production.”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch and/or transplants increased gross return and net economic value.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Black plastic mulch and/or transplantse0
- Outcome
- gross return, and net economic valuee0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- bare soil, direct-seeded productione0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Black plastic mulch and/or transplants increased yields, gross return, and net economic value over a conventional practice of bare soil, direct-seeded production.”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Row covers did not increase yield or gross returns.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Row coverse0
- Outcome
- yields or gross returnse0
- Direction
- did not increasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Row covers did not increase yields or gross returns.”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Maximizing yield did not necessarily maximize net economic value or benefit-cost performance.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Outcome
- yield maximization was not necessarily the best strategye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“When net economic value and benefit cost criteria were evaluated, yield maximization was not necessarily the best strategy.”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors advise analyzing the added cost and revenue of production practices.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Outcome
- careful analysis should be given to added costs of production practices and the added revenuee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Instead, careful analysis should be given to added costs of production practices and the added revenue these practices will generate.”
t0“Muskmelon”
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