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Jac,

I’m with you. I had been researching biodiesel since my college days and thought it would be great: grow my fuel, wasted a few years trying to figure the economics of that out then came back to the tried and true draft horse: home grown fuel, fertilizer as a waste product, my customers rave about the fact that their food is grown with the help of draft horses, that they have met, they need now additives to start in the winter (they start better than me most days:D). This list could go on and on the problem is our culture is all about automatic and push button, no wonder so many people are unemployed, no one actually wants to do any real work. Anyway I am rambling I’m sure you get my point.

Looking forward to a wonderful spring

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This video has gone viral:eek:, my wife sent it to me earlier today, When I came in for lunch I must have watched it fifteen times, so very cool.

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Just over the boarder, in Minnesota, a small farmer who was selling raw milk, legally, was accused of making 16 people sick, but the state would not give him the names of these people, so he contacted all of his customers and found that none of them had gotten sick or any people they had been in contact with. So who got sick? and how did they come in contact with the milk? Was the milk even the problem….my guess is not. No one will tell the farmer who his accusers are, do we not have that right? Anyway, thanks for this great discussion, we have people seeking out our farm and farms like it for a source of unadulterated, nonindustrial food, the crowd is getting louder.

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Here is another video, It shows things a little better, we will try and get one where we can explain everything. We moved almost 20” today, tired one team out then it was chore time so the other team will get a crack at the rest of it tomorrow.
Do any of you get the farm show magazine? There was a gentleman in there that built a snow plow that was set up allot like a buck rake only with a snow plow mounted in front, looks pretty neat, I’m going to give him a call, may have to build one of those someday.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60gaz1qyRDE

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I’m in Beldenville which is ten miles south of River Falls and 4 miles north of Ellsworth, WI.

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Here’s one video, working on getting a few more, still snow’n and blow’n here, we are at 18 inches with another 4 to 6 expected before morning:eek:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGTH–1yqw

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I’m in Beldenville, WI I bought the plow in Neilsville, WI for $800 new.

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Also check out tclocal.org very interesting, I fould out about it through the last Small Farmers Journal.

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Ill try to get more pics up, I did not build this plow, I wish I had, but I bought it from a shop in Neilsville,WI.

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Its a lift dump, I am working on getting a video up.

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Genetic Modification and breeding are two very different things. And even with human manipulated breeding there have been some disasters, I am a Farrier by trade and see the results of bad breeding decisions often (breeding for a traits that weakens the animal over all). Much of my degree, in Animal Science, was done in genetics, I find them interesting, but splicing genes is not done in nature.

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I could also go on and on about this, but I will hold for the time being and leave this thought.
Yes you may not have to spray BT Corn as MUCH, but when the bug eats the corn and is killed by the corn, do I want to eat/feed that corn……I think not, besides if you grow things in a polyculture and manage well with hand and real horse power there is no need for GMO’s, pesticides, or fossil fuels. Win, win, win.

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I could also go on and on about this, but I will hold for the time being and leave this thought.
Yes you may not have to spray BT Corn as MUCH, but when the bug eats the corn and is killed by the corn, do I want to eat/feed that corn……I think not.

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Thank goodness, I was worried. This is one of the only sites I would miss if I no longer had internet. Keep up the good work.

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I just measured my spare and it came out to 33 and 10/16 inches.
Hope that helps.

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