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Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough
- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough
- Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 01:56:57 EST
Thanks for the article. Interesting stuff, of the not-fun
variety. I first heard about this new flare-up of stem rust a few years
ago, from a friend who is marginally involved in bulk wheat purchases. To
be honest, at first I thought her worry about this being some big new doom
was an over-reaction. Maybe not so much now. Here's another
interesting article on some of the politics and financial issues also at work in
monitoring and controlling this and other wheat diseases:
Are there any small-scale grain growers on the list, either for your own
use or for sale? We're not in a big grain growing area, darnit. I
know of only a handful of growers in the region who plant small grains in any
appreciable quantity and most of that is turned under as a cover crop.
Only one harvests enough grain to warrant a combine. We've tried some
experimental plots in the several-thousand-square-feet size range. They
did really well but harvesting was a real pain. If anyone has some
experience harvesting, threshing and separating plots of grain using PTO or
walking-tractor-driven implements, suitable for plots in the 5000 -
12000sqft plot size range, I'd love to talk to you. Closest I've come to
finding an appropriately sized implement in this area is an ancient John Deere
model 12 pull-behind combine. I'd love to hear about other options.
Preferably options that don't cost an arm and leg.
Kathryn Kerby Frog Chorus Farm
Snohomish, WA
In a message dated 3/6/2010 6:48:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
farmingflowers AT hotmail.com writes:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_ug99_fungus/ |
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[Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/06/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough,
KAKerby, 03/07/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough,
Bill Scheffler, 03/07/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/07/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough, Richard Stewart, 03/07/2010
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[Market-farming] How do you irrigate?,
Alliums, 03/14/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] How do you irrigate?, John Ferree, 03/14/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] How do you irrigate?,
Garth & Kim Travis, 03/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] How do you irrigate?, Road's End Farm, 03/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] How do you irrigate?, Richard Robinson, 03/15/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] grain growing, was as if farming weren't hard enough, Road's End Farm, 03/07/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough,
Bill Scheffler, 03/07/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough, KAKerby, 03/07/2010
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