Essentially, the kenaf crop is topped at 12 feet and laid down to dry in windrows. The semi-dry stalks are picked up about 10 days later, cut into 1-ft billets, and blown into an accompanying dump buggy.
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"Potential New Crop: Kenaf, Commercial Fiber and Pulp Source". January 1979 - December 1989. Quick Bibliography Series: QB 90- 33. 214 Citations from AGRICOLA. Jerry Rafats, National Agricultural Library. Beltsville, Maryland.
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Higgins, J.J. 1974. Kenaf leaf development and stem height: Index of crop yield in the United States. USDA Tech. Bull. No. 1477. U.S. Gov. Print. Office, Washington, DC.
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These evaluations at three different environments indicated that airborne video imagery should be very useful in monitoring a growing kenaf crop, ...
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Farmers could plant today and harvest a cash kenaf crop next fall, and manufacturers could be mass producing kenaf products in three years. We've got the kenaf story on page 14, and thank you for pointing it out to us.
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WP1 is a general work package aiming at the coordination of the project and establishment of a link with the American Kenaf Society (AKS). WP2 aims at the determination of the sustainable yielding potential of kenaf as energy crop at several locations in southern Europe.
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The forgotten crop is kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) which in 1960 was selected by the United States Department of Agriculture from among 500 crop species (which included hemp) as the most promising non-wood fibre alternative for pulp and paper production.
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Agronomic Research for Kenaf Crop Production in Mississippi S.W. Neill Delta Branch Experiment Station Variety Trials 1989. The availability of kenaf seed was limited, and quality was suspect, as research got underway in 1989. Because of the latitudinal effect on kenaf growth, mid-maturing and late-maturing varieties...
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Section from the 1983 Handbook of Energy Crops covers the uses, folk medicine, chemistry, description, germplasm, distribution, ecology, cultivation, harvesting, yields and economics, and other aspects of kenaf and its production.
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Kenaf: An Emerging New Crop Industry - Information on kenaf history, cultivations, resources This report describes an on-going adventure with a new crop called kenaf, Hibiscus cannabinus L, a new annual fiber crop with a range of product applications.
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