Re: New Ideas

Sounds like a good idea to me, wish i had the room!
Glenn

At 07:53 AM 12/15/2004 -0500, you wrote: 
To all AG growers--------Jack LaRue and I are considering an idea and at
this point just want to see how many are interested in participating.

We propose to send 1-1420.5 and 1-1446 seed to a number of growers with the
following conditions.

You must:

1.Plan to grow the 2 plants in 2005 and cross pollinate them.

2.Have an email address so we can communicate easily.

3.Live in one of the top 20 ranked states/provinces shown on www.ipga.ws
,that are updated with the 2004 information.We will use the TTA for 2004 for
your region so if your 2004 info is not listed yet,it is time to see that it
gets done soon.We will not consider anyone from a state/province where the
TTA is not current.

4.Have a listing on AGGC,we would use your personal best weight,no matter
what category it may be in.

We would:

1.Make an initial list of interested growers,you can simply email one of us
with a "cc" to the other.

2.Divide your PB from AGGC by your state/province TTA to determine an index
number which we would rank from highest to lowest.

3.Go down the list to determine if you are still interested since several
weeks will have passed during the process and your situation may have
changed.

We are considering:

1.Taking email queries from the participants and answering as best we can
during the growing season,often a second or third opinion is valuable when
growing AGs.

2.Asking for a reasonable financial contribution.This part is unsettled for
now but take a look at typical costs from other major seed sources.Comments
invited by interested parties.

3.Asking for a short,confidential,end of month report during the growing
season.

4.Asking for maybe 10% of the seeds from a few of the 1420.5 x 1446 crosses.

We are guessing that maybe 50 growers will be on our indexed list,although
there is no maximum number and it is open to all that meet the conditions.

Once the list is established we would go down it to the end or until our
allotted seeds run out.There are several unknowns but on the final list
there could be 10--30 growers,we are estimating.

Please email one of us privately,with a "cc" to the other,if you have any
interest in or comments about the above very tentative,proposal.

Cheers----JL and AE

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