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- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:56:38 -0400
On Sep 20, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Jay Sleichter wrote:
Rodale's grain trials are actually highly mechanized; they don't rely on hand weeding. I found a .pdf with more info about the trials (I got there through Google and can't find a good link, will try to do so later. The earlier link was to a press release type of publication, not to the trials themselves; sorry). From that:
The individual plots are not very large; this is common with multiple replication trials. Note, however, "the subplots were large enough that farm-scale equipment could be used." I know organic field crop growers in this area with large fields for this part of the country. They may not be 640 acres; but scaling from 100 to 600 is not at all the same thing as scaling from 1/2 acre to 100. They do things very differently than I do; but I'm doing direct market fresh produce, and they've done such things as wholesaling soybeans to Japan. -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly Fresh-market organic produce, small scale |
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
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- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Etienne Goyer, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, McCormick, Rebecca (Genworth), 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Andy Fellenz, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, sals3, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Thamnophis, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Owsley lucy, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Road's End Farm, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, William H Shoemaker, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Marty Kraft, 09/21/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] organic and scale, Nan Hildreth, 09/25/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Richard Stewart, 09/20/2011
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