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  • From: "Liz Pike" <liz AT marketfarming.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Farm Credit
  • Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:19:06 -0400


Jeff, I helped a friend get a FC loan, and had to deal with "dinosaur" FC
agents throughout the entire process. I knew we'd reach the same conclusion
you got if we didn't plow in with a bulldozer of information, from sources
respected by our agent, and not "just" us farmers. I put together a packet
of print media and transcripts from well known sources, Smithsonian, CBS
news, our local and statewide newspapers, Carolina Farmer, and NC State
University statistics, to name a few. She got the loan, and earned a
customer in the bargain. I've just accepted that my chosen way to farm
isn't the norm, and everyone I deal with is completely uneducated, so I must
educate before I ask for what I need. I'm also not above sounding like a
"traditional" farmer, and rubbing shoulders with them so I appear to not be
too far from the edge. Others may consider it selling out. I don't--it's
survival, plain & simple, and I go in fighting.

Liz Pike
Laughing Brook Farm
Westfield NC
http://marketfarming.net/laughingbrook/






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