03-17-2008, 07:13 AM
In the early 1970s, after the UH Kohala Task Force failure at growing seed corn in North Kohala (loosing 10s of millions of tax dollars)!
The genius Professors decided to grow soybeans for tofu etc. So they poured more 100s of thousands into soy harvesing equipment. And now, the seeds they bought, which weren't the right type to use the harvester on. After the harvest (which only picked the top 2" of the plant, and the project was declared another complete failure!
Our friend was given permission to glean the remainder , which got us 40$ at KTA! But these plants grew allright with minimum water and care, at that time if they did things for real, they might have been sucessful to a small extent!
However, to try to grow here in competition with the mainland or foreign crops, forget it! Unless the state makes a stiff tax on import soybeans! Like the stiff tax that will hit any import palm oil sources, so our own "farmers" will prevail, they've already got our money!
The genius Professors decided to grow soybeans for tofu etc. So they poured more 100s of thousands into soy harvesing equipment. And now, the seeds they bought, which weren't the right type to use the harvester on. After the harvest (which only picked the top 2" of the plant, and the project was declared another complete failure!
Our friend was given permission to glean the remainder , which got us 40$ at KTA! But these plants grew allright with minimum water and care, at that time if they did things for real, they might have been sucessful to a small extent!
However, to try to grow here in competition with the mainland or foreign crops, forget it! Unless the state makes a stiff tax on import soybeans! Like the stiff tax that will hit any import palm oil sources, so our own "farmers" will prevail, they've already got our money!
Gordon J Tilley