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Cost And Efficiency Of Producing Canning Peas In Cache And Box Elder Counties, Utah, 1951, Lynn Herman Davis
Cost And Efficiency Of Producing Canning Peas In Cache And Box Elder Counties, Utah, 1951, Lynn Herman Davis
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The production of canning peas has an important place in the economy of Utah, particularly in the counties along the western slopes of the Wasatch Mountains. The enterprise is one which adds intensity to Utah's small farms. This intensification is accomplished with little additional equipment or labor other than that owned or supplied by the farm operator and his family. The crop is seeded in early spring and harvested in early summer leaving the ground available for summer fallowing or planting to a short season crop such as grain pasture. Peas are a satisfactory nurse crop for small-seeded legumes such …