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Diamond planting design and planter for peanut crops.
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Agricultural Research
- Article date:
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February 1, 2008
- Author:
- Durham, Sharon
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A variety of machinery and techniques is required to plant, cultivate, and harvest the wide range of U.S. agricultural commodities.
Over the years, ARS has researched many innovations in equipment and methods. For example, adapting equipment to plant runner-type peanuts in a diamond formation has been found to increase yield and improve disease management over the single-row planting method. ARS agronomists Russell Nuti and Ron Sorensen at the National Peanut Research Laboratory (NPRL) in Dawson, Georgia, are continuing this research, which was first developed by former NPRL agricultural engineer Don Sternitzke.
In a diamond formation, each 3-foot-wide planting bed has ...