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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Small Farm cultivation equipment
  • Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:01:29 -0600 (CST)

Try Craigslist in Wisconsin and Michigan too. There are a lot of specialty
crop enterprises, small farms in both states. You'll find unique equipment
more often there.

Bill



>
> Try Craigslist under Farm & Gardening.
> http://omaha.craigslist.org/
>
> Steve Mesa Az
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Corbin
> To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:49 PM
> Subject: [Market-farming] Small Farm cultivation
> equipment
> Hello,
> I just finished reading The organic farmers
> business handbook and am wondering where to find
> some of the equipment he mentions.
>
> Our farm currently is very inefficient and at a
> smaller scale. We would like to scale and thus
> need to find some tractor implements. I am located
> in ames Iowa (the heart of very large tractor
> county)
>
> I am wounder where I look for the items listed
> below. A google search turns up minimal items.
> certain websites for used small farm equipment.
> I'm sure allot of this equipment is just sitting
> in a fence row.
>
> -Mini Chisels (Ferguson field cultivator) 5 shanks
> with hilling disks
> -Larchmont-style bedformer
> -Rolling basket cultivators
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Chris Corbin
> Onion Creek Farm
> (641)780-5446
>
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