Michael,

Yes, 100% of this (HWAH) would go to market.  You would need to handle "losses" some other way, like reducing it 10%.

Be careful with HWAH.  Commonly that is "seed" or "grain".  Be sure that you have "pod" for pepper

The DSSAT model does not predict grades for pepper.  You would need to handle that however best you can.

I hope this helps.  The pepper model is not all that well tested (just one experiment), so let us know your experiences.  Do you have actual data for testing it?

Ken Boote

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Subject: vegetable yields

Dear DSSAT community,

I am working on a vegetable model and i have the following questions regarding the harvested yield (HWAH code)

1) Does 100% of this yield goes to market? Specifically, for the area i am conducted the experiment farmers discard about 10% of their total yield if their targeted market is the fresh market. Should i reduce the yields i get from the model by 10%?

2) Again for the area i am examining 60% of the yield for peppers is Fancy and 40% U.S. No1, is there a way to distinguish among grades with DSSAT?

Thank you for the help,
have a great day


Vassalos Michael, M.Sc. University of Kentucky
Department of Ag. Economics