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- From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
- To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:14:07 -0600
Ditto everything below and emphasize the advice to act quickly....the poly supplies can get jammed up when the weather's been weird in other places. Always think globally, these days. And the reference to a hole below reminded me to advise ordering poly patch tape at the same time;it's cheap and you will need it in your anxiety closet. (Sure, duct tape works for awhile, but geeeez-it looks so shabby after a decade or so...) Shawnee From: MAsteveINE AT 207me.com To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:04:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic What Shawnee said: Take to the bank!
Also:
If you are needing plastic, jump quick, hundreds of acres
of poly are being shipped to Haite
and that will tighten the market for some
time.
The major greenhouse suppliers in New Englland are Griffin
and Milikowski, the older catalogs I
have show they both sell AT Plastics, other names I have
used areKlerks, Visqueen, and Armin.
AFAICF Monsanto is no longer doing
plastic, or are doing it under another name, their "Cloud Nine" was the
first of the light difusing. ("I Hate Monsanto" fanatics beware.)
Of the better manufacturers there are construction grade
(less than a year) and other grades up to
"4 year" which carry a (pro rated) warrenty
mostly dealing with discolor or darkening. 4 year poly generally is
taken off after 4 years due to light transmission, not
product weakening, in low light crops and
cattle housing we plann on 4 year poly lasting 10 years.
The skirt poly on my Harnois house
is the original Tufflite made and installed in 1992, the
only hole being made by me with a backhoe moving snow.
Coleman is/was using all 4mil single layer poly in order
to get the most light possible.
MAsteveINE
This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a
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[Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic,
Kathy Somers, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/15/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic,
MAsteveINE, 02/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/16/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic, Kathy Somers, 02/17/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic,
MAsteveINE, 02/16/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Greenhouse plastic,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/15/2010
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