[Gasification] [Digestion] Cattails

[Benjamin Domingo Bof]

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Richard Haard <richrd at nas.com> escribió:
  Hi Harmon

Here is a Youtube link to view our use of the lifter-shaker for bare 
root harvest an alternate tool to harvest cat-tails , a plant we now 
cultivate and harvest at our native plant nursery.

Rich
On Dec 20, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:

>
>> Even if there were, it would be
>> difficult to adapt them to modern, mechanised, farming techniques.
>
> Actually it is quite simple. You grow them in paddys, as you do 
> rice.
> The water level is managed, and when harvesting, you drain the paddy,
> run first one tractor (with tracks or the huge mud tires) with a mower
> or harvester that cuts off the stalks 3' above the ground, then a 
> second
> tractor following that cuts the stalks at ground level.
> Dr. Pratt's group also experimented with harvesting the roots with
> modified potato diggers which seemed to work well.

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