Nursery Production and Management

HORT 431

VII. Production Cycles & Systems: Operation Systems, Mechanization,Labor Usage and Efficiency, Ergonomics, Crop Cycles, Field Production,Protected Culture, Field-Grow Containers, Containerization.

Reading Assignment:
Page
1. Greenleaf Nursery Chain of Command & Flow Chart 338
2. Greenleaf Nursery Job Titles & Labor Usage 339
3. Kunkel -- A Systems Approach to Materials Handling In the Nursery 342
4. Process Chart For Liner Production 345
5. Baldwin & Stanley -- How to Improve Work Organization 346
6. Verma -- Mechanization Takes Coordination of Worker & Machine 348
7. Young -- Future of Nursery Automation 349
8. Bolas -- Why haven't you automated? 354
9. Roberts -- Making efficient equipment more efficient356
10. Higginbotham -- Five Workers + 138 tires = Efficiency 358
11. Foot Power 364
12. Baldwin & Stanley -- Conserve Body Movement to Work More Effectively 365
13. Larson -- Ergonomics Belongs on the Industry Agenda 367
14. Appleton -- Ergonomic Horticultural Tools 368
14. Baldwin & Stanley -- Using Labor Efficiently 370
15. Selected Nursery Crop Production Cycles 372
16. Appleton -- The Calander Plan 374
17. Landscape Rose Production Cycles 375
18. Whitcomb -- Container and Production Bed Root Temperature376
19. Root control bag 378
20.Roberts -- How pot-in-pot system save time, money379
21.Appleton -- How we achieve better roots with coated containers381
22. The Paper Pot Method 384
23.Roberts -- Biodegradable pots advancing in nurseries & garden centers387
24. Nursery Containers 389

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