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- From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] GMO crops
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:26:33 -0400
Hello, My Name is Richard, and I am a GMO user. These discussions always end ugly but I'll put my hand up in favor if some types of GMO. I will argue that some GMO crops DO have their place. I have 160 acres of bottom lands that I know till. Every year the weed base is replenished. A GMO corn or soybean does allow me to make use of this land. I could cultivate the weeds or try to choke it with a cover crop. All of it has been tried. We do a single herbicide spray to kill competing plants and that is it. No pesticides and no other fertilizers. In other areas we do not use the same seed and do Non-GMO. I would, literally, be impossible for us to farm this land without GMO seed types. This land provides us with a good income, the land's fertility is strong because of backwater floods that deposit mineral rich soil (along with weed seeds). After seven full days spread out over three to four weeks we now have all 160 acres in the ground and can focus on produce, market, managing bees, and baling hay for our horse operation. That land's value runs between 40 and 80 thousand dollars a year depending on the market. We use a fraction of the fuel that most large scale organic production uses too farm the same number of acres and do not irrigate at all. Both of which are a massive drain on resources, are polluters, and wreck the evironment. Which is the lesser of two evils? I do not have the answer to that. Richard Stewart Carriage House Farm North Bend, Ohio An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855 (513) 967-1106 On Jun 8, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Road's End Farm wrote:
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[Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain,
Patricia Rupiper, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain,
Bill Shoemaker, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain,
Franklin W. Davis, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] GMO crops (was new potatoes),
Road's End Farm, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] GMO crops (was new potatoes),
Brigette Leach, 06/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] GMO crops (was new potatoes), juliew026, 06/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] GMO crops, Richard Stewart, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] GMO crops (was new potatoes),
Brigette Leach, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] GMO crops (was new potatoes),
Road's End Farm, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain,
Franklin W. Davis, 06/08/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain,
clearviewfarm, 06/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain, Allan Balliett, 06/08/2009
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[Market-farming] What price for mulch Hay,
Allan Balliett, 06/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] What price for mulch Hay, Thomas Patrick Hurtgen, 06/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain, R.M., 06/22/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain,
clearviewfarm, 06/08/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain, Allan Balliett, 06/11/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] New potatoes in the rain,
Bill Shoemaker, 06/08/2009
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