Re: Green versus Orange
Hard enough to get sponsor money for pumpkins. Imagine trying to get
additional money for squash, next to impossible. The big commercial sites
like Port Elgin and a few others may be able to get some more money for
squash but smaller weigh offs such as Niagara and trying for 3 years for
sponsorship and finally they are coming around squash is a pretty hard
sell.Talking from experience it would be pretty hard to approach them for
additional funding for squash when it took 3 years just to get them to
commit to pumpkins. Unfortunate but we have to keep offerimg more money to
attract bigger pumpkins or your left out from a weigh off point of view. You
can't blame the growers when faced with a equal drive either way which one
would you go to or if you have a real biggie why not go for additional money
except when its your own group puttung on the weigh off ie( Dave Stelts,
Bryan Dueck,and I'm sure there are several growers that are loyal to ttheir
group. I'm talking as a grower but also from a weigh commitee point of view.
When they say there is no sponsorship for squash that statement is not
totally untrue, theres hardly any out there for pumpkins and to decrease the
prize board so you can accomodate both is suicide for the weigh offs.
Because if your site finishes poorly in the top ten average its hard to
approach the sponsors next year but if finish well its a good selling
feature ie more media coverage for sponsors. Enough rambling
drew
----- Original Message -----
From: <LGOURD@aol.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Green versus Orange
> In a message dated 9/19/2004 9:54:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> Lubadub@aol.com writes:
> Squash just don't cut it. Ray Waterman knows this. His event is
> called a Pumpkin Weighoff. I doubt you will ever see the word squash up
in
> lights
> at Ray's. Say what you will about Ray. He is a purist and, I think, proud
of
> it. For years he has been out there pushing pumpkins, not squash. Ray's
> favorite color is for sure orange.
> I guess some of you newbies who have been in this for less than 20 years
> don't know that I petitioned Guinness Book of Records back in 1984 to
include a
> "Squash" class. They had only a pumpkin class that included both orange
and
> green fruit. So to say some of the things that have been said are way off
base.
> I have done a lot for squash growers also. Why don't you go after the
real
> challenge and grow some big ones instead of replying in this nature? I
meant
> little by saying, "what is colour anyways". Notice I used the Canadian
> spelling for Wayne. Get real and get growing! Ray
>
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