Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

In principle it sounds good for customers to help finance the growing season 
for CSAs. Agribusiness usually operates on a lot of credit which small 
producers don't have access to. But there's more than just the financing. But 
the big boys also have crop insurance! I won't ask customers to provide my 
crop insurance, so I agree - I can't ask them to share the risk, which is 
definitely going beyond simply financing me for the season. My misjudgments 
and bad weather shouldn't cost my customers. Those who do CSAs are free to 
keep on, but that's my take on it.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 8/22/2010 at 9:05 PM Aliza Vanderlip wrote:

>Interestingly enough  the top one in the state of oregon is the Burns
>Paiute Tribe for 2009 and the third is the bureau of indian affairs LOL- 6
>million out of the whole 23 million for all the years going to Umatilla
>Oregon in the BIA group  - The Burns Paiute tribe is mostly conservations
>subsidies but the BIA is lots of all kinds of subsidies.  Generally the
>state of oregon seems to be Wheat subsidies instead of corn and soy but I
>dont think subsidies are right anyway.  But I also dont like the CSA
>model - I dont think that the consumers should have to pay for my poor
>planning and learning curve - this year with the odd weather patterns my
>goats are not milking well at all.  I will have a milk shortage this
>winter that was unexpected - my customers shouldnt have to pay for that. 
>My opinion. 
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