What Enterprise is Sustainable for Me?
Snow Pea
To evaluate how well this enterprise aligns with your farm's agronomic, marketing, financial and management resources, answer these five questions. Then, calculate your score.
Using a scale from 0 to 100, scores indicate your farm's likely success with an enterprise.
The icons link to resources you can use to answer these questions.
QUESTIONS
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1. A snow pea growing site should have good drainage and no compaction issues. Do you have access to a production location with these characteristics?
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2. Snow peas require frequent harvests to ensure that the crop is of the highest quality. Do you have access to a sufficient labor force to harvest snow peas by hand, or have you identified a viable mechanized approach to harvesting snow peas?
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3. To ease the snow pea harvest, preserve vine health and encourage high yields, do you have the capacity to plant double rows or build a trellis structure to support the vining plants?
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4. After harvesting snow peas, the sugar in peas can convert into starch unless the peas are properly cooled. Do you have quick access to a storage facility that can cool snow peas to roughly 32 degrees F to 34 degrees F and hold the relative humidity at 95 percent to 98 percent?
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5. Snow peas have a relatively short life after harvest (two weeks at best) even if the storage conditions are favorable. Have you identified a viable market to consume snow peas soon after they're harvested?
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After completing all questions for an enterprise, calculate your score. A pop-up page will share your results. Scores closer to 100 suggest the enterprise would align well with your farm. Scores closer to 0 suggest the enterprise would not fit as well, based on your responses to the questions.