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  • From: Roots Farm & Karen Sutherland <rootsfarm AT cwdom.dm>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training
  • Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:51:02 -0400

Kathryn,

Thanks for introducing this important topic.  I learned a lot both from your presentation of what you learned in class and the excellent questions that were raised by other folks.  

Best wishes,

Karen

Roots Farm
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On Mar 3, 2010, at 6:04 PM, KAKerby AT aol.com wrote:

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
 
 
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