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Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry
- From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
- To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:06:21 -0500
I don't have specific resources to recommend...that would depend on the seed you anticipate saving. It's always challenging to get a seed crop gathered at the optimum point, processed/dried, and into storage (for me anyway) because I am usually harvesting the commercial crop at the same time. I do germination tests in the winter and note that viability is directly related to how carefully I've handled the seed. I know that I am more successful (success= good germination rates) when I have allocated a certain area or group of plants for seed and grown them for that purpose, harvested the seed at its "fattest" and then processed/cleaned/winnowed it as fast as possible and put it into the driest and coldest storage I have. Simply separating a portion of the cash crop (assuming the cash crop is also seed) for future seed use works, but the germination rate will be a bit lower and that may be ok as long as I know the approximate germination rate and sow accordingly in the next season.
Gives a person a headache to think of all this fiddly stuff and makes me understand why seed is so expensive even when I resent the costs. Shawnee zone 5 From: mdbrabo AT att.net Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:09:53 -0500 To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry Shawnee, Recommended resources for improving our harvest processes and storage standards? Thanks, Mike Vesterbrook Farm - Certified Naturally Grown Clarksville, Missouri - Mississippi River Bluffs, Zone 6 On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Shawnee Flowerfarmer wrote: _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming Market Farming List Archives may be found here: https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/market-farming/ Unsubscribe from the list here (you will need to login in with your email address and password): http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/market-farming |
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
Etienne Goyer, 07/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
pureprairiefarm, 07/28/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt, Etienne Goyer, 07/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
pureprairiefarm, 07/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
sunnfarm, 07/26/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
Road's End Farm, 07/26/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
Brian, 07/26/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt, Jackie Jameson, 07/28/2011
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[Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry,
Mike Brabo, 07/27/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 07/27/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry,
Mike Brabo, 07/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 07/28/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry, Etienne Goyer, 07/29/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 07/29/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 07/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry,
Mike Brabo, 07/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Consolidation of the seed industry,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 07/27/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
Brian, 07/26/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
Road's End Farm, 07/26/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Injecting Winter and Summer Squash with Bt,
Etienne Goyer, 07/28/2011
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