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Farm Report in Kansas
Terry Carey is a very famous local farmer in Kansas City. She deals with horticultural farm produce such as apples, ornamental corn, popcorn, water melons, cucumbers, winter squash and pumpkins with pumpkins being her major crop. Pumpkins are generally warm-loving crops therefore she plants them in June and they are often ready by September or mid-October. The size of her farm is 1,025 acres where she normally tries to distribute all the crops that she grows evenly on the land. However during the period between June and September she dedicates her entire farm to pumpkins and leaves out other crops. She plants mainly two varieties on her farm which are the giant ones that are greater that 20lb in size known as prize winner. This one takes 120 days to mature and they have a good color and shape. The second variety she plants is Jack-o'Lantern which is between 7-20 lb. The specific one in this category which she grows is Gold Rush which takes 120 days to mature, it has a large handle and it has a deep orange color.
Her farm does not have perennial weeds and it has very good quality of soil. Normally she does long rotations of between three and four years and uses soil tests for the application of potassium and phosphate. She ensures that her farm has the ideal pH for growing her pumpkins which is between 6 to 6.5.she makes sure that she tills her land beforehand...
All these equipment are necessary due to the size of her farm. The control of weeds is a critical management practice when it comes to growing pumpkins and the weeds are a very big problem since pumpkins are planted late when many annual broadleaf weeds are growing. She uses some of the few herbicides which are available for pumpkins and she ensures she uses very little due to the succulent nature of the plant that is not tolerant to improper application of the herbicides.
The pumpkin high demand season normally begins in late September to early October and therefore her pumpkins are ready for this market season. She sells her produce at the old Town farmers market which is a common market for many growers. She starts marketing her pumpkins way before harvesting whereby she contacts potential buyers and prepares advertising and sales promotions. Her stand in Old Town Farmers market has a very creative display…
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