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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] I'm a TN farmer also...flooded
  • Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 11:38:52 -0500

It's important to distinguish in the document between floods that impact
standing crops and fields that may be planted in the near future.

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

Here's some of the best info I've found so far
for organic growers (good guidelines for all growers really) on the
effects of flooding on organic crops/fields & how to handle everything
including certification (University of Minnesota, 2006):
http://organicecology.umn.edu/wp-content/files/impact-of-flooding-on-organic
-food-and-fields.pdf





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