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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] Local foods and less fuel
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 13:28:06 -0500

I think change will come slowly, as prices for oil-based products rise. There’s nothing like money to change behavior. But down the road we’ll look back and think it was fast (for those young enough!). I just hope it doesn’t look tragic by then. Of course, by then, the prices you charge may be different too.

 

Bill

William H. Shoemaker

Sr. Research Specialist, Food Crops

University of Illinois - Crop Sciences

St Charles Horticulture Research Center

535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL, 60174

630-584-7254, FAX-584-4610

wshoemak AT illinois.edu


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Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:55 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] Local foods and less fuel

 

Bill we have been working for a long time to get more organizations involved in local foods and get more growers intrested in what we are trying to do.  I have one school that is buying all that we as growers can furnish for their daily needs but it is very daunting.  The demand is so  great that most of us can't even do one days supply of product to feed their 10,000 daily students.  The packaging rules and cleaning rules are not the problem, it's trying to find the growers that will work for a main goal, everyone wants to try to control the whole account rather than work as a group to supply the whole.  Just the salad mix they use daily is over 100 pounds a day 5 days a week,  60 case's of peppers a week, and etc.  Very difficult to try to find grower's and our problem we have a lot of local vendors that feel as long as they have the product to sell what difference does it make where it come's from, South America is ok to them.  And it just keep's going on and on.  We do have a local foods director that is doing the inspections and we are finding out that most are a lot of wind and so called grower's just are not there.

 

Phil from Iowa 




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