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Subject: FYI, please advertise where appropriate
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:37:44 -0400
From: Carol Delaney <[log in to unmask]>
*Small Farm Equipment Demonstration*
*Intense One-day Experience*
*For new/beginning, 1st generation, or part-time farmers*
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*Snyder Research and Extension Farm, 141 Locust Grove Rd, Pittstown, NJ*
*Monday October 12, 2009 (Columbus Day). 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM Rain or shine*
*Registration of $45, includes lunch. Pre-registration required. *
*Call (908) 730-9419 for more information. Limited to 50 participants.*
Participate in an experience helping you make better judgments about
selecting equipment for profitable efficient smaller-scale or part-time
farming. Many sources provide information for small-scale farming. This
practical training field day provides comprehensive views and
demonstrates the 7 varieties of equipment used in successful
smaller-scale farm operations.
1. Primary & secondary tractors and tillage implements
1. Demonstration, defining power requirements, and cost of
ownership.
2. Soil differences and appropriate tillage in relation to
moisture & vegetation.
2. Fertilizer and lime application equipment
1. Demonstration and discussion of various fertilizer and lime
spreader designs, including a rotary and drop spreaders.
Cost of ownership.
2. Basic plant nutrition and soil pH. Calibration of spreaders.
3. Planting equipment
1. Seeding and transplanting demonstration, discussing cost of
ownership.
2. Review of operating, including importance of straight row
procedures, seeding depth, and spacing of vegetable and
other seeds.
3. Proper handling of transplants pre-and post-planting.
4. Horticulture/vegetable crop irrigation
1. Trickle irrigation operation demonstration and discussion.
Lower power + lower gpm flow rates = lower capital and
operating costs.
2. Overhead irrigation operation, design, capacity, power
requirements.
3. Demonstration and cost of ownership. How to pick the right
irrigation methods for you. Used equipment. New Jersey DEP
reporting regulation.
5. Controlling pests and pesticide application and safety
1. Using backpack sprayers. Utilization, operation,
calibration, efficiency and costs compared to
tractor-mounted sprayers or ATV mounted sprayers for small
farms.
2. Review of basic herbicide insecticide and fungicide
application methods, including products approved for organic
crop production.
3. Demonstrations and discussions of cost of ownership.
4. Pesticide application workplace safety equipment and
demonstration. Review of NJ DEP pesticide licensing
requirements.
6. Crop cultivation equipment
1. Demonstration operating a variety of specialized small
equipment.
2. Discussion on why we cultivate, costs of ownership.
3. Fertilizer side dressing combined with cultivation
4. Mechanical cultivation weed control strategies.
i. Let no weeds go to seed. Labor vs. equipment challenges. Managing
time and timing on part-time farms with crop selection, reducing acres,
longer rotations, etc.
ii. Tension between mechanical tillage cultivation chemical alternatives
vs. improving soil health.
7. Growing and making hay and/or livestock forage
1. Demonstrate equipment: seeder or drill, mower or
mower/conditioner haybine, windrow hay rake or tether,
baler, and wagons.
2. Discuss economy of scale in hay/forage enterprise, used
equipment, need for low cost quality organic forages to
support alternative livestock.
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*Detach here. Please register me for the October 12, 2009, Rutgers NJAES
Snyder Research and Extension Farm Small Farm Equipment Demonstration Day.*
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*Enclose is $45 for each participant*
*No. of participants _____ Total enclosed $______*
*Payable to: Rutgers – The State University of NJ*
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*Name(s) ____________________________________ Mail to:*
* Rutgers Snyder Research*
*Address ____________________________________ & Extension Farm*
* 140 Locust Grove Road*
* ____________________________________ Pittstown, NJ 08867*
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*Best contact ____________________________________ (Email or Phone)*
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*Special conditions (handicap access, diet, vegetarian, etc):
____________________*
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*___________________________________________________________________________________*
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*Carol Delaney
Farmer Grant Specialist
Northeast SARE
University of Vermont
655 Spear Street
Burlington, VT 05405-0107*
*Phone 802-656-0697
Fax 802-656-0500
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www.nesare.org*
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*Carol Delaney
Farmer Grant Specialist
Northeast SARE
University of Vermont
655 Spear Street
Burlington, VT 05405-0107*
*Phone 802-656-0697
Fax 802-656-0500
[log in to unmask]
www.nesare.org*
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