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  • From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] pond aerators
  • Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:53:06 -0500

At 09:21 AM 8/14/02 +0000, you wrote:
Generally one doesn't need to aerate or provide extra fish food
at these stocking rates and one needs to carefully consider if cost of
the inputs will ever be recouped in higher fish yields. The higher the
stocking rates, the higher the inputs (cost, materials, equipment,
labour) and the higher the risk of system collapse.
Robyn

This is all good thinking, yet I would not be afraid to work up that windmill and maybe some Japanese beetle traps that drop the bugs in the water. I wouldn't get into this as a business w/o a serious look at the business and aqua culture angles. Do you weld? It's pretty easy these days with wire feed and lets you whip up tools large and small, braces etc. Lets one nibble away at larger projects and utilize all that junk metal lurking around most farms.
Mark


Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM





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