{"id":2915,"date":"2023-12-27T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aesthire3.flywheelsites.com\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2023-12-27T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T21:28:21","slug":"watermelon-farmers-to-use-paper-mulch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/watermelon-farmers-to-use-paper-mulch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Farmers to Use Paper Mulch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers have been using plastic mulch, but paper mulch provides protection against some of the pesky weeds that farmers struggle with, such as nutsedge. \u201cNutsedge will not come through the paper that we\u2019re using with WestRock. The only place where nutsedge can come through is in the hole where we plant the watermelon transplant. That\u2019s an incredible advancement, because we do not have really good control measures chemically for nutsedge in watermelons,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/svaec.ifas.ufl.edu\/contact-us\/faculty-directory\/bob-hochmuth-faculty-profile-page\/\">Bob Hochmuth<\/a>, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF\/IFAS) Regional Specialized Extension agent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/specialtycropgrower.com\/florida-uf-ifas-paper-mulch-watermelon\/\">Paper Mulch Provides Incredible Potential for Southeast Watermelon Farmers &#8211; Specialty Crop Grower<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers have been using plastic mulch, but paper mulch provides protection against some of the pesky weeds that farmers struggle with, such as nutsedge. \u201cNutsedge will not come through the paper that we\u2019re using with WestRock. The only place where nutsedge can come through is in the hole where we plant the watermelon transplant. That\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":2916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,79,80,85,81,1,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculturalcommunicationsspecialist","category-agricultureassociate","category-agriculturesystemsassociate","category-agritechnologyspecialist","category-naturalresources","category-news","category-unmannedaircraftsystemsinagriculture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aest.ag\/hire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}