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Show BDFARMGe)WomeGp canoe Dow Chemical Accuses EPA Of Bad Science, Prejudice Petroleum Imports Affect Everybody AB, es are dependent on energy. Family ement is impacted by energy costs and to ¢ TOTAL CONTROL growing system that by Lewis Fogg, Genral Electric produces salad vegetables year-around engineer tions, mature in less time than greenhouse-grownor field-grown crops The hydroponic vegetables raised indoors in liquid mineral solu .g UPI Telephoto Winter Doesn't Stop Vegetable Growing °.: He Seen SYRACUSE, N.Y (UPI A “total control’ growing system that produces salad vegetables year-round for consumersin this upstate for several years and has 30 percent of redripe anddeliver them The comparison with reflected in three hours, Th fieldgrown crops is the light developed a hydroponics system of raising plants and vegetables indoors in perhaps even more Startling: forty times greater for lettuce, 30 the vegetable business liquid mineralsolutions. Navy personnel in New York city, usually are buried under snow from Argentia, Nfld., recipients of GE's November-April Most Americans research, too. Three 12probably would associate by-42 feet trailers, using General Electric with the GE-developed light bulbs and homeap- system, provide them pliances butit has been in with their oversized “military’’ salads all year-long Officials say process may revolutionize vegetable production. “This has fantastic potential,’’ says GE engineer Lewis Fogg, “particularly in countries where there are problems with plant disease.’’ Presently, GE sells tomatoes under its Geniponics trademark at Syracuse area markets and restaurants Hydroponic vegetables maturein less time than greenhouse-grown, or fieldgrown REIGNING FFA High as Queen at Payson School recently was Deanna Penrod. Attending here were Holly Gelert, first attendant, and Tracy Graves, se- cond attendant. Individual contest winners were Miss Graves, cakes; Alison Wood, speech; and Miss Penrod, apron sewing and posters. crops Tomatoes go from seeds to harvesting in 10 weeks and continue to produce for 14 to 16 weeks. Compared with greenhouse crops, GEofficials are getting 20 times as much lettuce nine times as much tomatoes, and six times as much cucumbers measured in pounds per square foot of growing area. times greater for tomatoes and 50 times greater for cucumbers “They taste just as good, if not better, than anything grown in garden the said Fogg manager of the controlled environment agricultur We 1972-73, government con: We 2 response has been very disappointed favorable They're decid- ,angaroo court at- controlle at shippedin en Fogg said months after inthe the weren't helped by the edly better than the ones mosphere EPA injected” iment,” t T slecn sm matremely crops, such as radishes, compared other regionsofthestate Gehring said EPA also ion practices and activities arein. fluenced by energy costs iodically are Extension agents demand for all with data leum products and import ves acur € ict > of what is happening with this vital energy source Dr. Farnsworth pointed out that many implications @ffecting everyone's life data Hesaid, can drawn from this “Particularly significant, the trade mbalances due in a large part to petroleum imports reduce the value of the U.S. dollar and @nify our inflation problems ‘ The engineers redesigned the facility. put the lamps inside covered them with thicker, but highly reflec- tive plastic and stopped growing rooted crops. operation. The project w developedinthe corpora tion's Electronic Division in 1972 whencer tain government con tracts becamelimited “Thedivision had been doing military systems work for many years, F said. ‘Starting in found the rooted 1), influenced by The wholefood tion, processing, marketing and even nption) is influenced by energy, Our ardwood trees in p for Syracuse, N.Y. consumersis checked people extension increasing problem and increasing costs. In December 1973, GE began feasibility tests on salad vegetables and ornamental plants, such as geraniums and ferns About three years later, GE began studying the economics of each crop and decided to build four production modules, 50 feet by 80 feet. Construction was com- tracts for radar and sonar pleted in December 1977 becamerather scarce. A and the planting began. task force wasorganized GE began marketing to look at the possibility Geniponic tomatoes in of taking the systems ap: proach to solving some various supermarkets module, a growing 1978. We found that housewives were votally and better reproblemsin agriculture staurants’’ in the The first production yracuse area in March chamber14 feet by 20feet by13 feet, was completed in March1973. A series of growing tests were con: ducted on tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers and radishes, in which dissatisfied with tomatoes in winter because they're shipped in from California, Mexico and Florida and electric lamps were used as the prime energy source. The lamps were they're picked green,’ Fogg said. ‘They don’t have a chance to for- placed outside clear mulate vitamins and plastic, but engineers dis- taste. the plastic “We pick our tomatoes covered SeeCTE HEWLETT PACKARD Ps 38E finandial f its type. 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