Market Farming

["Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>]

Hi Folks,
I'm new to the list but I can answer your questions on soil testing.  First,
let me introduce myself.  My name is Peg Cook and I am a private Crop
Consultant and I also operate a full-scale Soils Lab in northern New York
State.  I do testing for home gardeners, commercial growers and a lot of
certified organic growers because I give either a chemical or an organic
recommendation depending on  Customer preference.  I offer free soil sample
kits, which contain a soil sample bag, a cropping history sheet and envelope
and a fee schedule listing what different tests are offered.  In addition,
after receiving your soil test report, if you have questions, you can call
me as I am here to help you.  If you are interested, please send me a
private email with your name and address and I will send you out however
many kits you would like.  If you have questions, please feel free to ask.

By the way, I have been a Crop Consultant and a Soil Tech for 29 years.  I
use to retail lawn and garden products for about 10 years when I went into
soil testing and crop consulting full time.  Although my retail business was
thriving very well, I had to give up the heavy lifting because of my
arthritis (arthur won out in that case!).  But, I love agriculture and being
able to help folks, so, the consulting and soil testing meet both of those
passions.  If I can be of any service to any of you, please let me know.

Thank you kindly for your attention!  By the way, I've been viewing this
list for about a week and I think it is a super way to help new and
experienced folks with their personal and market farms!!!!  Actually, I sold
veggies and custom grew organically grown tomatoes and peppers and could not
keep up with the demand when I had my retail business!!!!!  So, I wish all
of you well on your businesses!

Peg Cook, Agronomist
Cook's Consulting
RD #2, Box 13
Lowville, NY. 13367

Ph. 315-376-3002

pegcook AT northnet.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex McGregor <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: soil tests


> Rose,
>
> You're lucky! I asked my extension agent about soil tests and all they
offer (in TN) is
> NPK and pH. I showed him a copy of my Timberleaf results and he said they
could run all
> those tests but it would cost over $150 for just the results! (Compared to
$55 for
> results and recommendations from Timberleaf.) He said he didn't know
whether they could
> do recommendations for anything but NPK.
>
> Also, I had someone in NC show me her results from NC extension and asked
me what they
> meant and for recommendations. In NC they use their own units, not
lbs./acre or
> parts/million. So, I told her all she could do is get recs from them or
get them to
> convert her results to ppa or ppm.
>
> Sounds like Cornell offers great service to growers in NY. You're very
lucky- it's not
> the same all over. I wish we had a vibrant, progressive extension here.
>
> Alex McGregor
> Walden Farm
> Walden Ridge, TN
>
> Rose & Fred Lieberman wrote:
>
> > Your local land grant university or cooperative extension should be able
to
> > do that.
> >
> > I send mine to Cornell (I live in NYS - not that you have to, BTW).  I
> > always get full results and recommendations.
> >
> > Then if I have any questions about something on the test, I just call
the
> > local ag agent at the coop ext, and he or she explains it all.
> >
> > Rose
> >
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