On-farm seed production is the practice of farmers producing, saving, and disseminating seeds directly from their own crops. On-farm seed production of open-pollinated crops was standard practice throughout most of our agricultural history. This
suppress weeds ( Al-Khatib et al. 1997 ). In New Mexico, USA, Rudolph et al. (2015 ) determined that brown mustard ( Brassica juncea ) cover crops produced up to 12,847 lb/acre of total dry biomass when these biofumigant crops were broadcast-seeded and
350 plants (three to five true leaf stage). ‘Celebrity’ (Harris Seeds, Rochester, NY) was grafted as scion onto ‘RST-04–105-T’ (DP Seeds, Yuma, AZ) rootstock. In this case, the grower was producing grafted plants solely for use on the farm and
produced during the growing season. Because each flower can provide five seeds, a high number of seeds can be produced in one season. Plants with reduced fertility often bloom longer during the flowering season ( Acquaah, 2009 ). Breeding for sterile plants
plant height because the ZP plant tends to be shorter than the other cultivars grown in this study ( Johnny’s Selected Seeds 2024 ). For each nonmarketable category, ZP produced a greater number of stems compared with the other cultivars. In the <8
of potash and contains essential nutrients ( Table 1 ). The compost produced at the Michigan State University Student Organic Farm composed of: 1) straw and wood shaving from sheep and horse bedding; 2) 1- to 2-year-old leaf mold collected from campus
is costly. The expenses include the price of seeds, labor wages, root media, seedling containers, feeding nutrients, and costs to optimize the growing conditions for a longer seedling stage. This study indicates that producing productive plants from
described. Materials and Methods Planting boxes. One and a half-month-old greenhouse-grown rubber dandelions, produced from seed collected from open-pollinated mother plants (which contained 5–7 mg rubber/g dry weight root, and had an average mature root
). One of the main methods of overcoming temperature limitations for lettuce production is cultivar selection ( Wien 1997 ). Seed companies have many listed heat-tolerant lettuce cultivars, some of which have been evaluated in different locations
(Delnet Delstar Technologies, Middletown, DE) and placed 6 inches deep in the center of the plots before treatment. Seed bags were produced as described by Hoffmann and Fennimore (2017) . Fifty seeds of burning nettle, common knotweed, shepherds purse