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Re:Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts o... by mschuster91 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:01AM (#23777691)
How are you going to reliably measure the solid content without destroying the tomato though?
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Re:Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts o... by evgen on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:17AM (#23779344)
Sampling. It is already the case that grains are tested and priced based on dry weight, it would not be hard to do the same for some of the larger veg crops.
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Re:Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts o... by jelliclesfarm on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:26PM (#23781890)
This point is moot. Canning tomatoes are different from market tomatoes grown for weight. Most tomatoes are harvested mechanically while green and unripe. They are gassed to ripeness.
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Re:Spreading rock dust on fields could remove vast amounts o... by jelliclesfarm on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:35PM (#23781983)
I don’t want to derail this thread but I just posted elsewhere(re: tomatoes) this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781972

And this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781897

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