Keep fighting the good fight, I like your energy and presentation. We had a similar issue out here with people collecting Yermo xanthocephalus or running them over with 4x4s. Conservation is thankless work but I live for the feeling of knowing that I'm saving a small part of something, even if it's imperceptibly small on the global scale. Subscribed!
Great vid. I think 5-10 acre of greenhouses dedicated to utahensis could probs produce around 100k utahensis every month if it was running full steam by a competent farm team. You could grow 100k on 1 acre but other acres for storage while sales. in my opinion today, the best way to save it is to outproduce all it's threats. I'm not gunna do that but if I had the $ I'd do that lol
There's a grower here in europe that stocks seedlings of all four types of Agave utahensis for quite a good price. There's others that have at least one. I would have imagined that they are way more prolific in the US. I also suspect that you can get very close to a wild specimen with that species in cultivation, rendering poaching even more pointless not that it could be justified in any case.
@Tony.795 there are a few dozen growers here who have seeds of all the types in the west coast of usa but we don't all talk to each other and most grow for hobby not profit. problem is the hobby growers probs the only ones who have the seeds for a commercial grower to scale an operation. yes that's actually what would be my goal. golden barrel is produced by millions today from seed. has made poaching it practically worthless and wild populations are recovering from almost becoming extinct.
This is awesome. It's going to be so cool to see what you document along the way.
I'm pretty excited!
Good luck on your journey my friend
Thank you!
Keep fighting the good fight, I like your energy and presentation. We had a similar issue out here with people collecting Yermo xanthocephalus or running them over with 4x4s. Conservation is thankless work but I live for the feeling of knowing that I'm saving a small part of something, even if it's imperceptibly small on the global scale. Subscribed!
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Great vid. I think 5-10 acre of greenhouses dedicated to utahensis could probs produce around 100k utahensis every month if it was running full steam by a competent farm team. You could grow 100k on 1 acre but other acres for storage while sales. in my opinion today, the best way to save it is to outproduce all it's threats. I'm not gunna do that but if I had the $ I'd do that lol
There's a grower here in europe that stocks seedlings of all four types of Agave utahensis for quite a good price. There's others that have at least one. I would have imagined that they are way more prolific in the US. I also suspect that you can get very close to a wild specimen with that species in cultivation, rendering poaching even more pointless not that it could be justified in any case.
@Tony.795 there are a few dozen growers here who have seeds of all the types in the west coast of usa but we don't all talk to each other and most grow for hobby not profit. problem is the hobby growers probs the only ones who have the seeds for a commercial grower to scale an operation. yes that's actually what would be my goal. golden barrel is produced by millions today from seed. has made poaching it practically worthless and wild populations are recovering from almost becoming extinct.