[AT] OFF TOPIC Pea Crops

[Charlie V]

Well, Ralph, it seems your product is not going to the fresh freezing or
canning market.  What is the end use?  Seed?  or animal feed ?? or  ???

Thanks,

Charlie V.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:

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> From: "Charlie V" <1cdevill at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:01 AM
> Subject: [AT] OFF TOPIC Pea Crops
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> > The pea trucks would often be overloaded enough to allow some bunches of
> > pea
> > vines to drop off along the roads on the way to the vinery.  As kids, we
> > would spend considerable time picking the dropped vines and filling the
> > front baskets of our bikes.  What a great treat it was to sit in the
> shade
> > ,
> > pick the pods from the vines and eat the fresh peas as we shelled them.
> > If
> > we could get a large enough collection, we took them home and shelled
> them
> > for Mom to cook for dinner.  In my opinion at the time, cooking spoiled
> > the
> > peas, so most were eaten under the shade tree.
> >
> > Charlie V. in WNY
>
> Charlie, when they harvest the peas here, ususally in August, they are hard
> as stones and not the kind of thing you'd want to be chewing on. In fact
> they tend to wear the moving parts of the combines more so than ordinary
> cereal grains. They have to be dry for threshing and storage.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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