Allison, Want to thank you for your sage advice on how better to communicate w/ farmers. Having grown up locally in a community of farmers, in a family of farmers, my great grandfather founded the Poultry Sciences Dept. at Cornell (now Environmental Studies), and having worked farms every summer until I was old enough to get "real" work at the other minimum wage, I hold all farmers close to my heart they are a special group, extremely hard working and dedicated to the earth in their fashion. I am not speaking of corporate farmers, but there were none in Trumansburg nearly 37 years ago when I was one of many youngsters hired to manually detassle corn. A machine nor genetically modified seed existed to replace me. Very simple times and with hindsight very valuable. I still love and respect farmers, am well read and current on many issues. I also appreciate all the reference material you included. It will be useful I'm sure. Thank you. Sincerely, Ara Karlberg Fan of the family farmer Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
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