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Appendix 2. Average Yearly Potato Production Statistics for Potatoes Produced at the UF/IFAS PSREU Hastings Farm1

C.M. Hutchinson and Doug Gergela 2

Table 1. 

Average production statistics for all selections in the Chipping Potato Variety Trial grown at the UF/IFAS PSREU Hastings Farm in each year.

Average production statistics for all selections in the Chipping Potato Variety Trial grown at the UF/IFAS PSREU Hastings Farm in each year.

Total

Marketable Yield1

Yield

% of

Specific

Total

Year

(cwt/A)

(cwt/A)

standard

Gravity

Culls2

HH3

IHN3

APP4

2001

287

250

84

1.076

na

1

1

5.6

2002

267

242

85

1.071

13

0

1

5.8

2003

427

362

87

1.076

3

4

1

5.8

2004

349

278

85

1.083

2

2

1

5.9

2005

308

254

89

1.077

2

0

1

5.8

2006

431

373

100

1.083

5

2

2

5.4

1Marketable Yield: size classes A1 to A3.

2Percent of Total Yield. Total culls include the sum of growth cracks, misshapen, sunburned and rotten/misc.

3Percent tubers; HH, hollow heart; IHN, internal heat necrosis.

4See rating system outlined in Table 2 of HS335.

Tables

Table 2. 

Average production statistics for all selections in the White Skinned Fresh Market Potato Variety Trial grown at the UF/IFAS PSREU Hastings Farm in each year.

Total

Marketable Yield1

Yield

% of

Specific

Total

Year

(cwt/A)

(cwt/A)

standard

Gravity

Culls2

HH3

IHN3

APP4

2001

289

254

84

1.070

na

0

2

4.8

2002

227

186

82

1.069

21

0

0

5.5

2003

439

363

112

1.065

6

1

0

6.1

2004

353

233

96

1.072

5

1

1

5.5

2005

271

196

78

1.063

3

0

0

5.6

2006

293

236

87

1.066

9

0

0

5.2

1Marketable Yield: size classes A1 to A3.

2Percent of Total Yield. Total culls include the sum of growth cracks, misshapen, sunburned and rotten/misc.

3Percent tubers; HH, hollow heart; IHN, internal heat necrosis.

4See rating system outlined in Table 2 of HS335.
Table 3. 

Average production statistics for all selections in the Red and Purple-Skinned Potato Variety Trial grown at the UF/IFAS PSREU Hastings Farm in each year.

Total

Marketable Yield1

Yeild

% of

Specific

Total
Year

(cwt/A)

(Cwt/A)

standard

Gravity

Culls2

HH3

IHN3

APP4
2001

221

195

70

1.071

na

0

0

5.9
2002

269

233

68

1.065

11

1

1

5.6
2003

453

376

90

1.064

4

1

1

6.0
2004

333

227

70

1.072

2

1

0

5.9
2005

276

213

71

1.064

3

0

0

5.4
2006

330

272

68

1.065

3

0

0

5.7

1Marketable Yield: size classes A1 to A3.

2Percent of Total Yield. Total culls include the sum of growth cracks, misshapen, sunburned and rotten/misc.

3Percent tubers; HH, hollow heart; IHN, internal heat necrosis.

4See rating system outlined in Table 2 of HS335.

Footnotes

1.

This document is HS1098, one of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date July, 2007. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

2.

C. M. Hutchinson Associate Professor, Doug Gergela, Sr. Biological Scientist, Horticural Sciences Department, Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32611

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