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  • From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: big ag in Pc
  • Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 11:05:34 -0500

At 06:06 PM 9/1/02 -0500, you wrote:
Well, to be honest, the mechanical harvest of perennial
polycultures does not exist so that's your answer on that
item

Not true at all. I have combined crops of mixed sized seed many times, including prairie plots. Also certainly hay/silage harvest would qualify as such. Many machines designed for one type of harvest can also be adapted to other uses, blueberry harvesters are being looked at for hazelnut harvest.
M


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





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