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- From: "William H Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
- To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] manures/GAP training
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 07:17:58 -0600
Personally, I think it’s been a very
healthy conversation which has made us all more aware of future challenges.
Thanks to all the contributors I have a much better feel for the kinds of
issues I face working with growers in my area as they begin to wrestle with
GAP. In all honesty, I’m not confident GAP will become law. There are
some in Washington who feel it may be over-the-top regulation if enacted as
law. Let’s hope. But I still think growers should seriously consider GAP
and see if they cannot use it as a tool for improving their management of their
farming operation, particularly in marketing. It could have a tremendous impact
on your ability to gain loyalty from customers. And I believe they are many,
many ancillary benefits to management from the discipline of GAP. As good as
all of you are, I think it could make you better growers. I’m old enough to consider
retirement down the road a few years (if my pension survives!). But I won’t
quit working. I’ll probably join your ranks as a market farmer and I’ll
be keen to use GAP as a management tool. I’m considering it for our University
research farm. I’ve always been a grower (research plots; gardens; my
mother accidentally hit me in the forehead with the back end of a hoe when I
was about 7. That’s what sealed my fate!). I’ll probably grow
things around my grave! William H. Shoemaker Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops 630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610 From:
market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End Farm On Mar 3, 2010, at 5:04 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. Sorry! I didn't reply with that list of questions because I expected
you to be able to answer them, but because I thought you had asked what
questions we thought important. Apologies if I gave the impression of expecting
you to come up with the answers. It is a really complicated subject; that's part of the reason that hard
and fast answers about what to do -- or sometimes, even about how to design the
studies -- aren't easy to come by. -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly Fresh-market organic produce, small scale |
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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] 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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