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[Undertoad]

You don't bomb dirt

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Originally Posted by BigV

How are you going to market a sixty pound watermelon?

By the pound?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by BigV

Hang on a minute.

How are you going to market a sixty pound watermelon? Even if a quarter of it is rind, that's still many many many servings of watermelon, per watermelon.

Institutions, schools, restaurants, and Dude111's Buffet.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

I was just wondering what the acreage under production is/was.

There's half a world (well, almost) between here and Minnesota but it occurred to me that, like some farmers in the UK, Mr Elbert might also have been a contractor.

Whatever the situation, that's rather a lot of hardware!

Good thinking, that's quite possible. That spurred me to find he farm, at least I think I did. I had envisioned the rolling farms I saw in Kansas, Iowa and the Dakotas that stretch for miles. That would make the amount of equipment sound reasonable. What I found is much smaller so you may be right.
The squares are about 5,000 feet.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

You don't bomb dirt

Salt bombs