Simple question

As some may know already, I am heading to England this Friday 12th and on next Saturday 20th will be a guest at the FETCU annual meeting held in England. Our fellow poster Simon Lenihan has been kind enough to invite me,so I hope to meet many real European horsemen at this meeting. I would be glad to introduce our new group to them and ask for participation. It will be a honor to represent the DAPFI fledgling efforts.

Also I wanted to make a presentation to DAPFI about our DRAFTWOOD program as a system we could all use to gain market share in the green movement. I am afraid that will have to wait until I return. I look forward to sharing that with this group.

The primary reason I am going is to look at Suffolk stud colt prospects in the U.K.

I will let everyone know what happened when I return. Carry on good folks.

Salute,

Jason

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At this time I don’t think there is enough activity/interest/organizational commitment to proceed any further with the plan to contact insurance commissioners with data.

I would have to agree with this sentiment. I have so many balls in the air, which is the way I have always lived my life, that the amount of time I can give to each is extremely variable.

I think it is easy to get big ideas fast, and that is one of the reasons why these types of effort implode, or more accurately “Seem” like they implode.

I share the sense that the time is appropriate for such a network, and organization, but truthfully we have been living in our own little world here on DAP. It will take some time to reach out to others in the global community. We should just protect this seed, and continue to take the foundational ideas seriously, and over time we can make something happen.

In my mind it is not so much how many, or who can really take the time, but how serious we are, and how hard we hold onto the idea. There are several of us here from divergent regions, and knowing that there is this kernel of an organization will begin to have affect within smaller networks.

So far most of us have not invested too much, so we don’t have a lot to lose, but we can only make it work if we keep thinking about the possibilities.

Thanks Scott, Carl

Hey Jim,

We are the same decrepid age. I used to do eighty trees a day, now I do eight.

Hey All,

One thought about what direction to take might be localized groups affiliated with the larger group but based on forest type and regional markets.

The group that interests me would be – spruce/fir forest type, Northern New England/southern Quebec region.

I also have a few personal contacts in Quebec, NB, NS, and PEI. I can share those with you.

Carl