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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 20:30:38 EST
I did a bit more reading last night (the kind of reading where you look at
the clock and think "geez, I should go to bed, but this is SO
interesting......"), and learned that each major wheat category has at least
some varieties which are resistant to the new UG99 rust. One big question
is why those are resistant, and the other big question is whether they can
provide the same kinds of field production as the non-resistant varieties.
>From the reading it seemed that the researchers looking into this are not so
concerned about finding resistance but rather in getting farmers to move away
from the prone varieties toward these new varieties, given that they may not
yield as well. That's speaking globally, not necessarily locally or
nationally. I can send along a link to the study where they looked at
hundreds of varieties for rust resistance if anyone is interested.
The comments below are most interesting to me, moreso than the issues with rust. It seems that grains are the last holy grail for localized production and small scale, value-added production. Veggies, tree fruit, bramble fruit and even meats and dairy products are now being produced successfully at the cottage level, but precious little seems to be happening with small grains in this regard. Maybe that's because the infrastructure is so expensive, or perhaps the tools aren't there anymore to work with small grains on a cottage basis. Maybe some of both. But small scale grain harvesting seems a relatively straightforward set of problems that relatively few folks are working on. I was really jazzed to read that you're exploring that very topic and finding some ways to tap those markets. I keep telling my engineer husband that if he can help me design some improved harvesting and processing tools (shocking, threshing, hulling, etc), there might be a market not only for those products but also for that equipment. I'll review the videos you provided and look into the Meadows product
line. Maybe someday I'll be swapping notes with you about value-added
pricing. :)
Kathryn Kerby Frog Chorus Farm
Snohomish, WA
In a message dated 3/7/2010 11:35:08 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
rstewart AT zoomtown.com writes:
Bill Thanks for the link to the cleaner. |
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Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough
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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
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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,
Richard Stewart, 03/07/2010
- [Market-farming] CSA data management software, Mary Embleton, 03/07/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough,
Richard Stewart, 03/07/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] as if farming weren't hard enough,
KAKerby, 03/07/2010
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