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Vol. 29, No. 2

Summer 2021

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USDA Carrot Hybrid Trial

Harvest Essentials

Buyers’ Guide

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The Latest Science-Based Information on Water and Nitrogen Best Management Practices for Low Desert Carrots

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ASA-LIFT’s PO-335BU harvests bunched carrots from the field.

Find harvesters, sizers and more in the Harvest Essentials Buyers’ Guide on pages 8-9. Photo courtesy ASA-LIFT

On the Cover: Sam Scheidt with the Organic Seed Alliance holds a carrot grown in the USDA carrot hybrid trial in Holtville, California. See how the varieties fared on page 4.

Photo courtesy Laurie McKenzie, Organic Seed Alliance

Departments:

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WORLD CLASS VEGETABLE HARVESTERS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

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Results Are In Photos courtesy Laurie McKenzie, Organic Seed Alliance

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lthough COVID-related restrictions kept most people in the industry from viewing the results of this spring’s USDA carrot hybrid trial in person, organizers say the crop was beautiful. And here are the pictures to prove it.

The carrot hybrid trial was planted at the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center in Holtville, California, on Oct. 27, 2020, and harvested in mid-March. The trial included more than 1,200 varieties, ranging from earlythrough advanced-generation breeding lines, as well as inbred lines mainly for hybrid development. Entries included cello types, cut-and-peel types for the processing industry, orange and purple high-pigment materials for use as industrial food coloring, and plant introduction materials from the National Germplasm Collection.

Although organizers were unable to hold the usual public field day this year, they did evaluate the trial at harvest.

Carrots were scored on root length, shape, root smoothness, tip shape, uniformity, premature bolting, vigor and foliar diseases. Quality traits included color, flavor and texture. Evaluators also looked at top quality, strength and attachment.

Jay Schafer, a carrot breeder for Pop Vriend Seeds in the Netherlands and owner of Schafer Ag Services, evaluates a carrot grown in the USDA carrot hybrid trial.

Roots are evaluated for internal color and flavor.

Eregli x 2566B is the first generation of a new breeding project currently called the Sunset Population.

The goal is to breed a variety with purple skin and red-orange-yellow interior coloring.

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Katie Miller with the Organic Seed Alliance peels a carrot.

These carrots, selected from PI220517 in the USDA collection held in Ames, Iowa, offer good flavor.

Laurie McKenzie, the Northwest research and education associate for the Organic Seed Alliance, has attended the USDA carrot hybrid trial the last six years.

With USDA carrot breeder Phil Simon unable to be on site due to ongoing travel restrictions, McKenzie managed the trial harvest and selection this year.

Overall, the trial and the roots dug were beautiful, she said. There was very little disease present on the foliage or the roots.

In particular, the novel colored carrot hybrid trial included some very promising looking hybrids, especially from Simon’s program, according to McKenzie.

“Personally, I am especially interested in and focused on the novel colored carrots - both for open-pollinated and hybrid variety development,” McKenzie said.

“In the time that I’ve been coming to [the trial], I’ve seen tremendous progress made on expanding and improving the cultivar development of colored carrots. Overall, I think there is really great progress being made in Dr. Simon’s program across the entire carrot spectrum and am both honored and humbled to work so collaboratively with him and his program.”

R5646, a breeding line from Phil Simon’s program, has been out for trials with seed companies and will likely be a candidate for a public release in the next few years.

Sam Scheidt with the Organic Seed Alliance displays two intertwined carrots.

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New Products Vilmorin Adds Variety

Vilmorin North America has a new carrot variety now available. Speedo is the company’s earliest maturing Nantes variety. Roots have excellent uniformity and are very cylindrical in shape, according to the company. With a 90-day maturity, Speedo is said to have strong tolerance to premature bolting. In addition, a strong top attachment makes the variety suitable for mechanical harvest.

Visit www.vilmorinnorthamerica.com.

Germains Offers Seed Disinfection Options

Germains Seed Technology now offers both conventional and organic carrot seed disinfection options designed to effectively remove Xanthomonas without impacting seed shelf life or germination. Planting clean, healthy seeds is an essential first step to effectively managing bacterial leaf blight, according to Germains.

The company offers customers two disinfection options to safely clean seed: ProBio gopure and gopure are two costeffective, low-risk alternatives to disinfecting seeds versus a traditional hot water treatment that can negatively impact germ.

Visit www.germains.com/us.

HydroSide Systems Rolls Out New Wheel Mover

HydroSide Systems has developed a patent-pending hydroelectric irrigation wheel line mover. The Hydro Mover is a hydro-powered, self-charging, all-electric, remote-operated system. The company bills it as “bringing precision irrigation tech to old-school techniques.”

With the Hydro Mover, water comes into the line and spins a turbine. This power is stored in onboard batteries that power the system. Once the line is drained, operators can move the line to the next set with the click of a button.

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Bayer Introduces New Fungicide

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Bayer Crop Science recently brought Minuet Fungicide to market. Minuet is a soil-applied biological designed for a fullseason spray program. In the soil, it forms a symbiosis with the plant and triggers activation of root and plant growth as well as the plant defense response to support healthy plants and increased crop quality and yield potential.

When applied to the root zone, Minuet colonizes the roots and helps enhance root growth, increase nutrient uptake by solubilizing nutrients bound in the soil, protect the plant, and prime the plant against biotic and abiotic stress.

It’s approved for use in crops including carrots, potatoes and sugar beets. It has a pre-harvest interval of zero days and a reentry interval of four hours.

Visit www.cropscience.bayer.us.

Calendar June 24-26

United Fresh 2021 Los Angeles www.unitedfresh.org

Oct. 28-30

PMA Fresh Summit New Orleans www.freshsummit.com

Nov. 17-18

Pacific Northwest Vegetable Association Conference and Trade Show Three Rivers Convention Center Kennewick, Wash.

Sheri Nolan, (509) 585-5460 or www.pnva.org

Editor’s note: Information was correct at presstime.

Please contact event organizers to check for possible changes.

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SIROCO F1 Exceptional tops combined with outstanding root quality yielding high pack-out rates.

SEED GENERATION

Harvest Essentials Buyers’ Guide

ASA-LIFT Harvest Equipment www.asa-lift.com

Two hedgehog cleaning units are installed on ASA-LIFT’s T-300DFH2/I harvester, greatly improving the machine’s cleaning efficiency and soil removal. This ensures that far less soil ends up with the final product to be removed afterward at a high cost.

ASA-LIFT has also developed a new side-control unit that automatically guides the belt arm on the correct path on the rows.

Improved bearings offer durability. Springs are mounted on the side, and the tension can be easily adjusted. The unit is backward compatible, making it possible to install on older ASA-LIFT machines.

ASA-LIFT’s new belt arm is extremely service friendly, requiring very little maintenance and no greasing. Belts are effortlessly changed with the quick-release system. The whole arm is more stable and has built-in security features to prevent damage.

Greentronics Yield Monitor

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Integration with John Deere GS3 2630 displays is now available. Greentronics’ yield monitor transmits yield data to the 2630. The 2630 displays and stores yield data in real time. Integration to Trimble FMX and TMX displays continues to be available, as well.

Greentronics yield monitors are designed for root crop and vegetable harvesters. The system is built around one or more load cells, which are installed in a conveyor to measure the weight of the crop as it passes on the belt.

Once installed and calibrated, the harvester operator chooses the field name and sets the swath width. The operator does not need to interact with the yield monitor while harvesting.

Growers use yield maps to study and manage variability in their fields and generate report cards on their progress. By applying breakeven points, yield maps can indicate areas with profit and loss and help make decisions about inputs, population density, crop rotation, cover crops, drainage, leveling and so on.

Kerian Machines Speed Sizer www.kerian.com

The Kerian Speed Sizer sorts carrots by size accurately and consistently. The constantly rotating rollers help the turning flaps align the carrots with the rollers so that the carrots (with or without tops) are consistently sorted by diameter. The sizer is proven in use for fresh carrots, baby carrots and processing lines.

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Rietveld Equipment Polisher

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The Allround Polisher TD 350-18 has 18 rolls of brushes with an estimated capacity of 25 tons per hour. Three smaller models are also available. The polishers are available in stainless steel and feature a hydraulic lift for easy cleanout, variable speed control, a water recirculation system and water cleaning system. The machine also offers easy brush removal for changing the brushes, as well as several different types of brushes for each application.

Allround builds all of the machines required in a washing/grading line, and the machines are running in over 80 countries worldwide.

Rietveld Equipment offers free 2D and 3D drawings of full lines, or drawings of the available machines in users’ existing lines.

Parts and machines are in stock at the company’s Midwest facility, and service and support from certified technicians is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Univerco G-Force

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With the addition of the G-Force model, a two-row three-point mounted on tracks, Univerco now offers a complete range of carrot harvesters. From the Mini-Veg that can be operated by a 60-hp tractor all the way up to the MAC Series of multiple-row, self-propelled and everything in between, Univerco can propose a solution for all needs and farm sizes.

The G-Force is unique in its category because it offers a compact, multiple-row, high performance machine, with a motorized track that will power it through the most difficult field conditions, at a much lower price than a self-propelled machine. State-of-the-art technology supports a user-friendly machine made to work every day for carrot growers.

Vogel Engineering Inc. Custom-Built Harvesting Equipment www.vogel-engineering.com

Made in the U.S., Vogel Engineering harvesters offer features such as a precision computer-controlled planting population system and individual row head height adjustability. Plus, the company offers a new Extreme Super Cleaning System.

Harvesters are available in two-, three-, four-, six- and eight-row configurations.

Other available options include conventional roller bars or high-speed crowning.

Volm Companies Visar Sortop Carrot Revolution

www.volmcompanies.com/equipment/visar-sortop-carrots

Volm Companies is the official North American distributor of the Visar Sortop Carrot Sorting System. This system will reduce labor costs while increasing the quality of the final product.

The Visar’s image capture system utilizes mirrors and powerful circular lighting to provide a 360-degree grading and sizing of each carrot. This guarantees the highest sorting quality and grading precision. The Visar sorting software is user friendly and provides many options to allow users to easily change product specifications.

Sortop Carrots has a new infeed system known as the “Revolution” that nearly doubles the original carrot capacity. Carrots are conveyed onto a turntable-style entry system. The rotation of the turntable creates a centrifugal force singulation and alignment of the carrots with high efficiency.

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NEEDS ASSESSMENT The Latest Science-Based Information on Water and Nitrogen Best Management Practices for Low Desert Carrots

By Ali Montazar, Irrigation and Water Management Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension, Imperial, Riverside and San Diego Counties

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better understanding of how carrot crops use water and nitrogen may ultimately improve carrot production in the low desert region of California.

Carrots are one of the 10 major commodities grown in Imperial County, California, with an average acreage of nearly 16,000 over the past decade, according to 2010-2019 Imperial County Agricultural Crop & Livestock Reports.

The farm gate value of fresh market and processing carrots was about $66 million in 2019.

In the Imperial Valley, most carrots are typically sprinkler irrigated for stand establishment and subsequently furrow irrigated for the remainder of the growing season. However, there are fields that are irrigated by solid set sprinkler systems during the entire crop season (Fig. 1).

Nitrogen (N) and irrigation management in carrot production systems is critical for increasing the efficiency of crop production and decreasing costs and nitrate leaching losses. The N needs of carrots for optimum storage root yield depend on the climate, soil and residual soil N from the previous season. To accomplish greater nitrogen and water efficiency, more accurate crop

water use information of carrots is required with respect to different soil types, carrot crops, weather and farming practices.

Utilizing more accurate estimates of crop water consumption and N uptake may have a significant impact on water quality issues and on soil water and N availability, potentially increasing the economic sustainability of carrot production.

An ongoing study at the University of California particularly seeks to quantify and fully understand carrot production issues under current management practices, and to fill knowledge gaps for nitrogen and water management in carrots through conducting experimental trials in the low desert of California.

Field Experiments

Field experiments were conducted at the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center (DREC) located in Holtville, California, during the 2019-2020 crop season (Fig. 2). The trial consisted of two sprinkler irrigation regimes and three nitrogen strategies. In addition, measurements were conducted in five commercial fields in the Imperial Valley with various soil types and under sprinkler

and furrow irrigation. Stand establishment was accomplished by sprinklers at the experimental sites.

The actual crop water consumption (actual crop ET; ET stands for evapotranspiration) was measured using the residual of the energy balance method with a combination of surface renewal and eddy covariance equipment (fully automated ET tower in Fig. 3). As an affordable tool to estimate actual crop ET, Tule Technology sensors were also set up at all experimental sites. The Tule ET data were verified using the ET estimates from the fully automated ET station. Soil moisture sensors were installed at multiple depths to monitor soil water potential on a continuous basis (Fig. 3). In both the DREC trial and the commercial sites, actual soil nitrate content and the total N in the plants (tops and roots) were measured several times per crop season.

Results

The common irrigation practice in carrot stand establishment is to irrigate the field every other day during the first two to three weeks after seeding. Carrots germinate slowly, and hence, the beds

Figure 1. Solid set sprinkler (left) and furrow (right) irrigation systems water carrot fields in the Imperial Valley of California.

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need to be kept moist to prevent crusting.

A comparison of applied water and crop water consumption indicates that the carrot fields could be overirrigated by three times of crop water requirements during the stand establishment.

A wide range in the length of the crop season (seeding through harvest) was observed, ranging from a 128-day period in a processing carrot to a 177day period in a fresh market carrot. The seasonal crop water consumption varied between 12.5 inches and 16.6 inches at the experimental sites (Fig. 4a). The results clearly demonstrate that carrot fields may have variable irrigation water requirements depending upon early/late planting, processing vs. fresh market, irrigation practices, length of crop season and soil type. A peak daily crop water use of 0.21 inches on March 23, 151 days after planting, was observed in a fresh market carrot field (Fig. 4b).

Water stress should be avoided throughout the carrot growing cycle. The critical period for irrigation is between fruit set and harvest. Sprinkler irrigation may be considered as a more effective irrigation tool when compared with furrow irrigation.

More frequent and light irrigation events are possible by sprinkler irrigation. Overirrigation of carrot fields increases the incidence of hairy roots, and severe drying and wetting cycles result in significant splitting of roots. Sprinklers reduce salinity issues, which is important since carrots are very sensitive to salt accumulation.

The irrigation water that needs to be applied in an individual field depends on

Figure 3. A fully automated ET tower is seen in the photo on the left. A multi-depths soil moisture sensor monitoring station equipped with Tule sensor is pictured on the right.

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Figure 4. Cumulative actual crop ET in the experimental fields (a) and daily actual crop ET at the fresh market Carrot-2East site (b)

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Figure 5. Nitrogen uptake curves developed for a fresh market carrot field (a) and a processing carrot field (b)

Figure 6. Carrot tops and plant residues remain in a fresh market carrot field in the Imperial Valley of California after harvest.

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crop water requirements and the efficiency of the irrigation system. Assuming an average irrigation efficiency of 70 percent, the approximate gross irrigation water needs of carrot fields in the low desert would be 1.5 - 2.1 ac-feet/ac (pre-irrigation is not included). Pre-irrigation along with proper irrigation scheduling over the season may effectively maintain crop water needs and salinity in carrots.

The preliminary results of this study demonstrate a notable amount of N uptake both in the roots and tops at harvest time.

For instance, a total N content of 286 lbs./ acre in plants grown for a period of 164 days (149- and 137- lbs./acre in roots and tops, respectively) was observed in a fresh market carrot field (Fig. 5). The total N content was 297 lbs./acre in processing carrots (123 lbs./acre in roots and 174 lbs./acre in tops). Total N uptake in the roots and tops was similar, with rapid increase beginning 55 days and 45 days after seeding, respectively. The rate of increase in total N content in the roots did not decline near harvest in any of the experimental sites, while it declined in the tops for fresh market carrots beginning 125 days after seeding.

Nearly 50 percent of seasonal N accumulated in the tops and the roots occurred at 85-90 days after planting when the canopy is fully developed. An effective nitrogen fertilizer application could be splitting N application into 10-12 percent at planting, 30-35 percent as side dressing (in case of furrow irrigation) and the remainder through irrigation events.

Assuming a 150–170-day period as a carrot crop season, it is recommended to apply the total nitrogen fertilizers by 15-20 days before harvest.

The results of this study illustrate that 45-55 percent of total N accumulated in the carrot plants is left in the fields as residual soil N right after harvest which could contribute as a source of nitrogen for the following season (Fig. 6). Further work is needed to quantify what fraction of N provided by the plant residues potentially contributes to the following season, particularly since there is a risk of leaching a portion of residual N due to heavy preirrigation in the late summer during land preparation.

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In the News UK Event Postponed Until 2023

The Third ISHS International Carrot and Other Apiaceae Symposium is now scheduled for Oct. 2-5, 2023, in York, UK. The event was slated for this October but was postponed due to ongoing concerns surrounding COVID-19.

The conference, which is being held by the International Society for Horticultural Science, will be “the most extraordinary event for the carrot and other Apiaceae community in response to extraordinary times,” according to organizers. The symposium will include attendance at the British Carrot Growers Association Demonstration Day. For more information, email info@carrotsymposium.com.

Vive Hires Midwest Regional Sales Manager

Blaine Bishop recently joined Vive Crop Protection as Midwest regional sales manager.

Bishop will be supporting distributors, retailers and growers from Wisconsin to Kentucky to drive the awareness and adoption of Vive’s precision chemistry products, including the introduction of AZterknot, a new 3-in-1 biological/chemical/Allosperse fungicide, this spring.

Bishop, who has previous experience as a product manager and chemical account manager, earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture systems management from the University of Missouri – Columbia.

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Grimmway Grows Marketing Team

Grimmway Farms has welcomed Keri Morrelli as product innovation and development director.

As part of the sales and marketing team, Morrelli will oversee product development from ideation to launch for all divisions at Grimmway. In addition to leading strategy for new product development, Morrelli will also be responsible for optimizing the company’s existing product lines and packaging materials.

Morrelli has more than 20 years of experience in the food industry and holds a bachelor’s degree in applied plant biology and postharvest physiology and a master’s degree in horticulture and agronomy from the University of California, Davis.

Vive Crop Protection Celebrates 15 years

Vive Crop Protection celebrated its 15th anniversary on March 30.

Since its inception in 2006, the company has focused on helping farmers be more efficient using nanotechnology and other precision chemistry tools. During its 15 years, Vive Crop Protection has leveraged its Allosperse technology as the basis for eight insecticide and fungicide products currently available in the U.S. market and collaborated with major biologicals providers to develop chemistry and biological combination products. In 2020, the company reached a milestone of 1 million crop acres treated with Vive-branded fertilizer-compatible products.

Liphatech Announces Anniversary Offers

Liphatech’s Rozol brand is celebrating the 50-year anniversary of the EPA registration of Liphatech’s first active ingredient, chlorophacinone.

Rozol is used to manage field rodent infestations to reduce damage to crops and property. Rozol is labeled for use on ground squirrels, black-tailed prairie dogs, pocket gophers, rats, mice and voles on farms in many states.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary, Liphatech is inviting growers, applicators and crop advisors to share their Rozol success stories in exchange for a vintage T-shirt. In addition, for growers purchasing Rozol, Liphatech is offering an online rebate that allows payback for nearly any combination of Rozol brands.

For details, visit www.liphatech.com/rozol50.

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