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 Post subject: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Nov 23rd, '10, 01:29 
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Nov 23rd, '10, 07:54 
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Nov 23rd, '10, 08:08 
That's going to be a hell of a lot of watercress.... hope the market is that big... and that they don't drive the price down.... :D
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Nov 23rd, '10, 08:44 
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i guess as long as it's the "real watercress"...

as opposed to that shady mexican dirt cress...

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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Jan 6th, '12, 21:21 
FYI... Santa Cruz Aquaponics closed their doors last week...
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Jan 6th, '12, 22:45 
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Jan 6th, '12, 22:48 
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RupertofOZ wrote:
FYI... Santa Cruz Aquaponics closed their doors last week...

Any more details on their closure Rup?
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 Post subject: Re: Santa Cruz AP
PostPosted: Jan 7th, '12, 00:50 
Apparantly they had a "hard time with Fish and Game and the rules and regulations made in very difficult to grow much on a commercial scale."....

They supposedly ended up growing Carp for live sale at Asian markets... (although I heard stripped bass).... whereas their initial plans/projections were based on Tilapia... which are banned in California... (they should have known)...

Then were going to stock bluegill and/or catfish.... not sure what happened in that regard...

Other comments suggest...

"Combined with the local farm culture in California where your competing with thousands of acres of crops grown organically on well established soil based farms, Plus some miss calculations with the future returns. The result is not enough people to do the work and an under funded farm."

High hopes... and a vision that exceeded their capitalisation... along with perhaps a lack of homework or real business analysis... by the sound of it...

Sadly I think you'll see most of the rash of recent "commercial" AP systems in the US go the same way in the near future....
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