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Start Small and Observe the Locals
- Concepts
- Corps, NC, start-up
Courtesy of John S., Blue Ribbon Eggs, Franklin NC You’re smart to start gradually and small. Kinda like learning to play the piano – go slow. Accuracy and speed (or in our case size) will come. The mistake I made at first (aside from excessive ambition and hence scale) was...

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Advice on Market Pricing
- Marketing
- Corps, NC, pricing
Courtesy of John S., Blue Ribbon Eggs, Franklin, NC The best advice I ever got on market pricing was from Robert Plamadon who raises eggs and broilers in Oregon. At first he tried to ‘be price competitive’ and realized that as soon as he had to raise his price a...

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DIY Pumping System
- Gear
- Corps, irrigation and water quality, NC
Courtesy of John S., Blue Ribbon Eggs, Franklin, NC I have poor water pressure and a variable well, but 400′ of year round creek on one side of my property. I also have a friendly neighbor who is also a subsistence farmer that spent 30 years on oil rigs in...

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Drip Irrigation Setup
- Gear
- Corps, Drip Depot, irrigation and water quality, NC
Courtesy of John S., Blue Ribbon Eggs, Franklin, NC With your ‘Mediterranean’ type weather system long, dry summers are your problem. Evaporation and plant scorching from any type of over-head system is going to be challenging. I would think some conformation of drip would be a natural for you. Drip...

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