Hydroponic Greenhouse Lettuce Enterprise Budget
Yield and commercial hydroponic lettuce.
Hydroponic greenhouse lettuce enterprise budget. It would be beneficial to examine the feasibility and the potential ability to replace soil systems for growing strawberries. Please research costs in your area and enter those into the budgets. We are getting 5 6 pounds of lettuce per zipgrow tower on a 3 6 week crop cycle. In 2006 chsr constructed a new 4 320ft2 hydroponic production greenhouse and in 2007 a 1 680ft2 add on to provide the resort s restaurant with a greater variety of fresh produce on a.
Hydroponic lettuce budget analysis single bay. Calculates expected income from growing hydroponic lettuce in a single bay quonset house. Greenhouse pests of particular concern are aphids thrips whiteflies and mites. 2 1 introduction this paper provides an economic.
Higher production costs require. Greenhouse lettuce enterprise budget. Breakeven costs for a 3 000 square foot greenhouse with eight turns harvests per year and 5 900 marketable heads per turn were estimated at 0 74 per head for variable costs and 0 19 per head for fixed costs. If we dedicate half of the farm to lettuce we will be using 96 zipgrow towers for lettuce production.
96 towers x 5 6 lbs each 537 6 pounds each of lettuce and basil over a 3 week. Hydroponic lettuce production budgets from. Occur on greenhouse lettuce include botrytis gray mold powdery mildew and downy mildew. Compares annual fuel costs for a variety of fuel types.
Hydroponic lettuce production budgets from the ohio state university were modified in 2016 to reflect kentucky production scenarios. The rest we will dedicate to herbs. Consumption of strawberries has been asserted to have many health promoting bioactive compounds including antioxidants.