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["R. Keith Etheridge" <goatdoc@ctitech.com>]

For several years I had a guard donkey w pygmy goats in my pecan orchard. The 
goats are gone due to old age and want to get some more.Will the donkey 
accept a new batch or
will I have to let them get used to each other across the fence for a time?
Keith
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Another point would be that our dwarfing rootstock is very limited 
genetically. There are many fruit varieties but much more limited rootstock 
varieties. If (when) something shows up to take out one rootstock, then it 
could take years for the industry to recover from the loss of that rootstock. 
Having another source of dwarf trees only makes good ecological sense.

                                                                              
  Geoffrey Tolle

On Aug 19, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA) 
<sam.brungardt@state.mn.us> wrote:

> Good point, Bob and Idell.  I don't have a decent solution for selling the 
> trees as are the club apples.  Maybe a night visit to one of those compact 
> tree orchards at full bloom to collect pollen?  
> 
> Still, I'd like to think some of the selections might end up being 
> propagated and sold by the nursery industry.  Seems like no rootstock is 
> very successful for peaches, and this development (compact trees on their 
> own roots, if that's what it is) would fill both commercial and amateur 
> growers' needs. -- Sam
> 
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> From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of ROBERT W 
> JUDY A
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:24 AM
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> Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make 
> picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)
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> I think Idell was referring to the fact that a lot of the University 
> produced new varieties of whatever are like the club apples.  There is no 
> place where an individual can buy a club apple tree.  You have to be 
> special licensed and grow many trees with fruit for the market only.  No 
> one else can get their hands onto a club apple.  It could be the same way 
> for these new peach trees.
> Bob
> Puyallup
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:56 AM
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> picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)
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> I shared this story because I thought it great that publicly funded 
> research was concentrating on downsizing peach tree size without a dwarfing 
> rootstock.  Just because it will have a commercial application doesn't mean 
> that the resulting cultivars will not be suitable for amateurs or hobby 
> growers; some may be.  And, the resulting cultivars could possibly serve as 
> parents in a enthusiast's (read NAFEX member's) own breeding program. -- 
> Sam in St. Paul
> 
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> From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Idell 
> Weydemeyer
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> I think the universities may live in a rarified world that speaks with 
> commercial growers primarily--not the rest of us -although we pay taxes too 
> but do not get research topics made for us.
> 
> Idell weydemeyer
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> From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's 
> End Farm
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> Dwarf fruit trees are a new idea?
> 
> And here I thought that bright idea was older than I am. (And I am getting 
> up there.)
> 
> The specific varieties might be new; and/or getting specifically peaches 
> down to the size they want might be new, I suppose; but the article is very 
> odd in that it seems to think that the whole idea is new.
> 
> -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think Fresh-market organic 
> produce, small scale
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA) wrote:
> 
>> Modern Farmer
>> Peach breeders at the University of California, Davis are
>> experimenting
> with a new way to make fruit farming safer: shrink the size of the trees.
> 
> 
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