Dear Allen, thanks for the common sense response on this issue. I am intending to try a few small hogs in my orchard this Spring based on the Jim Koan article...
Bail Hanna
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Mar 14, 2008 10:43 am
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OK, I just got the news story out of greymail and see that the intent is to eat the drops. That's what we'll shoot for. Hugh...
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Mar 14, 2008 11:05 am
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Regarding your last sentence on the three month restriction, yes, that is what Jim Koan uses. --Deirdre Deirdre Birmingham, Coordinator Upper Midwest Organic...
Allen - Email is an efficient, but strange, method of communication. Sometimes the lack of context results in miscommunication. I was not questioning the...
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Mar 15, 2008 1:57 am
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Glen, Thanks for the clarification. I think I may be a bit touchy about this subject with all the GAP stuff going on this year and product already falling...
Hi Deirdre, I wonder if you could go into some depth explaining this to the group, as it seems that there is not enough time between "June drop" (often really ...
Brian Caldwell
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Mar 16, 2008 1:45 am
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I recieved this message this morning from David Epstein the pig study coordinator. Maybe if a number of us write in about our interest the study could...
After learning that the hog project in Michigan hasn't received USDA funding for this season. I contacted the USDA and received the attached reply. It is...
Being the guy who squawked about the E. coli risk of running livestock through the orchard, I feel compelled to contradict myself in that my reaction to...
Glen Koehler
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Mar 17, 2008 9:12 pm
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Dear Glen, It is refreshing to get this message! I was getting a little crazy following the distorted thinking around so called risk factors. You are not...
Bail Hanna
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Mar 19, 2008 11:02 am
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I'm delighted we turned a corner here from the perceived risks of piglets in the orchard to the topic of how we might best accomplish orchard research for...
Hey Josh, I've lost your email, so hope you're reading this. I have the Entrust, and need an address. I think Scott wanted the other quarter lb. ? If anyone...
Bail Hanna
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Mar 28, 2008 11:34 am
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Hello all, I'm upgrading my spraying set up and getting a Rears Pak-tank. I am trying to figure out what to get for a spray gun to go with it. I am mostly...
Hi Steve, I got my Rears sprayer from OESCO and use their standard (Green brand I think) hand spray gun. It seems to be good, but I have little to compare it...
Brian Caldwell
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Mar 30, 2008 12:32 pm
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Steve, I used a pactank for years until it finally gave me a frozen shoulder and I broke down and bought a pacblast from Oesco. I used a little gun that Oesco...
Bail Hanna
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Mar 31, 2008 8:54 pm
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Brian, hi, do you have Josh's email? if so please send it on as I need to contact him about entrust....
Bail Hanna
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Brian Caldwell
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Apr 1, 2008 1:04 am
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Hey Steve, I intend to make a similar sprayer investment (maybe even this year :>) and thought it might be useful to have this question broadened beyond the...
Thanks all for responding, Michael, I have been spraying for the last few years with a 25 gallon tank and small diaphragm pump mounted on an atv to do the...
Hi all, Years ago our group of Northeast low spray and organic orchardists came up with the "Toad Code", so named because of the value that toads in the ...
Brian Caldwell
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Apr 5, 2008 10:19 am
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Thanks to grant funding from the Organic Farm Research Center in California, we're starting up a weekly conference caller amongst organic apple growers this...
Hello Apple Growers. I Have a question. I'm having an ongoing and serious apple borer problem. Probably 15-20 young trees infected this year. I've read in ...
Not sure about the grey clay. Kaolin is useful in that its minute particles are very sharp and irritating to insects....which is why it deters them from...
Hi Seth, I developed the kaolin slurry idea for borer for two reasons: I had pottery-grade kaolin on hand, and it was white and thus I thought it would help me...
seth in addition to what michael had to say...... the idea of adding manure (and a few other things) to a clay-based tree paste probably comes from biodynamic...
Thanks for responding to my borer question. I am going to mix up a batch of clay with pyganic and rotenone and swab it on this weekend as well as spray with bt...
Hello all, For those of you who are not organically certified, but are growing using organic methods, what kind of terms do you use to describe your fruit for...
The right word eventually bubbles up to the surface. After years of debating "organic" and "ecological" and "sustainably grown" and whatever . . . I now ...
Hi Lisa and all, I have listened to parts or all of the last several calls and find them very worthwhile! Unfortunately, I can't make the live call times. A...
Brian Caldwell
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Jun 15, 2008 2:28 am
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brian and all thanks for the good summary of your experiences. very informative. i, too, have sooty blotch and flyspeck. the disease susceptible varieties are...
