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eric koperek wrote:TO: Glibert Fritz
FROM: Eric Koperek = erickoperek@gmail.com
SUBJECT: Calorie Crops
DATE: PM 8:34 Wednesday 3 August 2016
TEXT:
(1) Grow turnips.
(2) You can grow more calories per acre by planting turnips than by planting any other food crop. C4 plants (like maize) are more efficient at converting sunlight into sugar, but turnips (a C3 plant) grow much faster and tolerate cold climates. You can harvest a crop of turnips every 40 days. Grow multiple crops in sequence. Over the course of a season or year this adds up to a great mountain of calories, about 19 tons of turnips per acre every 40 days or 9 crops per year = 171 TONS of turnips per acre every year (365 days). No other crop, temperate or tropical, can match this productivity.
ERIC KOPEREK = erickoperek@gmail.com
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Hi, Eric. I'm looking for a way to supplement my chicken feed. Would you recommend turnips for chickens? Thanks!