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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Money available for High Tunnel Experiments
  • Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:07:22 -0500


>From another list.
Pat

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Subject: [HIGHTUNNELS] Money available for High Tunnel
Experiments
From: Dan Nagengast <nagengast AT EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:57:39 -0600

Hello all,

The High Tunnels in the Great Plains Project has money
available for on-farm experiments that explore the
profitable use of high tunnels for horticultural production.
If you are bedeviled by a particular pest or soil issue,
want to try a new variety of crop, are interested in mulches
or extending a crop's season, have ideas about relay
cropping or some such, I would be glad to talk to you about
it, and quite possibly we could provide funding.

We cannot help you buy or build a tunnel, but we could
possibly provide shade cloth, or help with irrigations
systems for example. However, any help would have to be in
conjunction with some sort of innovation or exploration of
high tunnel horticultural production. We can't just buy you
an irrigation system because you need one. Also,
realistically, we probably are looking for project in the
$100 to $500 range. This opportunity is, unfortunately,
only open to growers in proximity to our project extension
specialists. The area includes all of Nebraska, Kansas and
Missouri, and the Southwestern portion of Iowa.

If your idea is a really good one, one of the extension
scientists may also want to replicate it in their own
on-station trials.

If you have any thoughts or ideas, email me or give me a
call.

Dan Nagengast <nagengast AT earthlink.net>
966 E. 800 Rd.
Lawrence,KS 66047
785/748-0959
785/748-0609 FAX
www.kansasruralcenter.org





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