CROP CHOICES FOR AQUAPONIC PROFITABILITY  

Brad Todd
Bradley.Todd@luckyclaysfresh.com

To insure the long term success of a commercial Aquaponics system, intensive production is paramount. By comparing three of the most common cultured crops in Aquaponic systems, we will look at how spacing and time in the system effect profitability.  Variable spacing and residence time is examined to illustrate the reduction of the breakeven cost of selected vegetative growth cultivars.