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Calculating Optimum Sowing Factor: A Tool to Evaluate Sowing Strategies and Minimize Seedling Production Cost

This paper illustrates how to use an excel spreadsheet as a decision-making tool to determine optimum sowing factor to minimize seedling production cost. Factors incorporated into the spreadsheet calculations include germination percentage, seeder accuracy, cost per seed, cavities per block, costs of handling, thinning, and transplanting labor, and more. In addition to numerical outputs, the spreadsheet generates a graphical representation of results to present and evaluate options. Example scenarios demonstrate how the tool can be used.


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Author(s): Eric van Steenis

Event: 2013 Winter Forest Nursery Notes
2013