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I found out that John Deere started offering a chinese made combine starting around 2013 (with a John deere diesel engine) with green paint to the Philippines for around $39K US

Very interesting to see that they will offer this scale of equipment in other parts of the world. It would be nice to see it here in the US. Evidently there is one parked at the headquarters in Illinois but not available for sale. http://www.deere.com/en_US/docs/Corporate/fans_visitors/publications/plowshare_issue33.pdf

A couple other links

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/farmers-business-network/

This looks like a collaborative movement relevant to the FarmOS dialog.

Clarkson University Engineering and Management students analyzed an organic farmers root vegetable bedlifter. We have attached an analysis as well as some improved designs to benefit other farmers.

This week on the organizer's call we successfully solved an issue regarding registration which was preventing users from signing on to their accounts.

Here are notes.

Details at http://www.appropedia.org/Forest_biochar_rocket_stove

Organizers Calls are a weekly e-gathering of Farm Hackers working on a variety of projects, sharing their progress, and moving projects forward. The format is informal and interested contributors are welcome. For an invite, email Daniel Grover @ farmhackopen@gmail.com

Here are notes

Organizers Calls are a weekly e-gathering of Farm Hackers working on a variety of projects, sharing their progress, and moving projects forward. The format is informal and interested contributors are welcome. For an invite, email Daniel Grover @ farmhackopen@gmail.com

Here are notes

Organizers Calls are a weekly e-gathering of Farm Hackers working on a variety of projects, sharing their progress, and moving projects forward. The format is informal and interested contributors are welcome. For an invite, email Daniel Grover @ farmhackopen@gmail.com

Here are notes

Organizers Calls are a weekly e-gathering of Farm Hackers working on a variety of projects, sharing their progress, and moving projects forward. The format is informal and interested contributors are welcome. For an invite, email Daniel Grover @ farmhackopen@gmail.com

Here are the notes

http://producingoss.com/en/ Producing Open Source Software How to Run a Successful Free Software Project Karl Fogel

Copyright © 2005-2015 Karl Fogel, under a CreativeCommons Attribution-ShareAlike (3.0) license.

I found sections of this book very helpful in framing the Farm Hack project. I recommend others taking a look - especially around documentation and cultural best practices.

Some excerpts:

From Introduction "People should feel that their connection to a project, and influence over it, is directly proportional to their contributions."