Was just told that we have a paper on tomatoes in preparation and that I should be getting the draft this weekend.
As a little background, one of my jobs with the lab is designing our forms and ads, and editing and publishing our papers. If you've seen any of our papers, you know that they are not exhaustive scientific reports, but hopefully, practical and easy-to-understand information on various topics.
Usually, it is our Chief Analyst who does the original draft. Then I get it to make sure it is consistant and understandable to the normal person and make all necessary changes and corrections, and "pretty it up". Then it goes to our scientific review panel where additions and more corrections are made.
Then it comes back here to fix any unexplained scientific jargon that crept in. Then, it makes a loop back through scientific review, then our Chief Analyst, then back here - sometimes for several loops...
Admittedly, this is more than you ever likely wanted to know about how seriously we take our publications.
We're pretty excited about the coming tomato paper, as out of the hundreds of papers published by the lab over the years, I was astonished to find out that there had never been one done on tomatoes...
The paper will cover garden/field, greenhouse and hydroponic cultivation. Am told it will be a big one - at least four pages. But as usually happens with these things, I start asking a lot of questions and by the time the thing is done, it is very much larger than it started out - sometimes going to several sections to hold the file size down... Hope to have it out in a week or two.
Hope you'll find it worthwhile - and of course, any comments are welcomed.
Also, we expect to put up a PowerPoint on Sulfur that was presented at our recent Farm Smart. Grow Smart. conference, soon. As dull as it sounds, think you'll find it interesting.
