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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: lists AT rhomestead.com, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] straw bales as greenhouse heat source??
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:13:21 -0500

Beth - Thanks for your effort. I do subscribe to and read "growing for Market" The questions I asked Steve were outside of what's been covered in Growing for Market.

As far as Penn State, if you've suggested them as a resource, I assume that you haven't spent much time reading their studies. I have read a lot of their reports and I've heard a number of papers presented at PASA. The first thing I will say is that I am totally dumbfounded by how much affect an undergraduate's unreplicated "discoveries" can have on the market farming industry. Secondly, I'm really taken back at how often 'results' of studies are used as facts when, if you read the studies, you'll find that gaffs in growing have affected the outcome at least as much as any of the variables. I study that came to mind ended with the statement "Future studies may consider varying the amount of water given to the plants outside the hoop house and inside the hoop house. In this study, water was fixed and I think that may have affected our outcomes." Well, so do I.

Anyway, I appreciate your efforts to set me straight, Beth. What I'm really looking for when I ask my trying questions is grower experience, even if I have to have the experience of other farmer mediated through the irreplaceable Steve Diver, the one among us who gets to see what a lot of people are doing and can report it in ways we all can benefit from.

Again, as far as Penn State is concerned: you wouldn't go to them for advice for livestock health, would you?

Well, I guess a lot of people on this list probably would, but for me, their paradigm is unworkable.

Later -Allan




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