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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:04:02 EST
I'm sorry, folks, but I'm getting really overwhelmed with all this. I
started this thread because I just took the class and was concerned
about what I learned. I was curious if other folks had gone through
the GAP training and if so, whether they were going to change their practices
because of them. Now I'm fielding all sorts of questions about why
this paper? Why those testing protocols? Why didn't the researchers do
this and that, and did they know about such and such, and so on. I have no
idea. I don't know why they set up that particular research
project they way they did. I've provided just about as much information as
I have from the class, without just posting all the Powerpoint slides themselves
(which may be already be available online somewhere). I can forward this
list to the WSU staff who gave our particular GAP training but they also didn't
run the particular research cited. They may or may not be able to answer
all the questions listed below.
If I'm reading all these responses correctly, the general sentiment is that
these new guidelines are over the top and do not accurately reflect real world
growing conditions, and/or would be mitigated by other practices, so are
relatively useless as working guidelines. Is that basically an accurate
summary? If so, that's what I was originally asking. But I can't
provide any answers as to why the research was set up the way it was, or whether
other researchers are pursuing these other possibilities. If anything, if
this research isn't providing us with useful information, that's reason
enough to start asking that researchers actually do the research we want
them to do. My impression from the class was that while it was bad news,
the WSU folks were trying to provide helpful information that growers could put
into use. If that's not the case, then we need to tell our extension
offices that we need something else. Otherwise they're just working in the
dark. Perhaps that's already happened. But I'm not the one to hear
those requests and act on them. Sorry if I gave any suggestions to the
contrary.
Kathryn Kerby
Frog Chorus Farm
Snohomish, WA
In a message dated 3/3/2010 10:05:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
organic87 AT frontiernet.net writes:
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training
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- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, Road's End Farm, 03/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
SaladG, 03/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, Road's End Farm, 03/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, sunnfarm, 03/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
KAKerby, 03/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, Road's End Farm, 03/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Worms and manure,
Celeste Illgner Havener, 03/04/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Worms and manure,
Todd Lister, 03/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Worms and manure, Casey & Teena, 03/04/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Worms and manure,
Todd Lister, 03/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, clearviewfarm, 03/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
KAKerby, 03/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland, 03/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, mamica5, 03/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, Road's End Farm, 03/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
Road's End Farm, 03/03/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
William H Shoemaker, 03/04/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
Wiediger, Alison, 03/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, William H Shoemaker, 03/04/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
Wiediger, Alison, 03/04/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training,
William H Shoemaker, 03/04/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, SaladG, 03/03/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training, KAKerby, 03/03/2010
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