Costs of field packing lettuce: Comparative study made of three methods of field packing lettuce in Salinas-Watsonville area for interstate shipments

Smith, F; Enochian, R

Costs of field packing lettuce: Comparative study made of three methods of field packing lettuce in Salinas-Watsonville area for interstate shipments

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Frank J. Smith, University of California Agricultural

R. V. Enochian, Agricultural Marketing Service

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California Agriculture 9(3):2-14.

Published March 01, 1955

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Abstract

Almost three quarters - 73% - of the head lettuce shipped from Salinas in 1954 was field packed and vacuum cooled as compared to 20% in 1952.

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The above progress report is based on Research Project No. 1572, a co-operative project, of the California Experiment Station and the Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A., and a part of Western Regional Project WM-14.

J. N. Boles and L. L. Sammet, of the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station, co-operated in the studies reported in the above article.

Costs of field packing lettuce: Comparative study made of three methods of field packing lettuce in Salinas-Watsonville area for interstate shipments

Frank L. Smith, R. V. Enochian