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LETTERS TO the editor Paul Hadler, store manager for Garden Supply Guys. Sustainable Support Garden Supply Guys’ new store recently opened its doors in April 2011. We proudly offer Maximum Yield in our store, and our customers love it. We usually run out of your magazine within the first week of getting it in. I especially enjoyed The Great Organic Hydroponic Debate article in the June issue. We wanted to send you a picture of our store with Maximum Yield in it. In the photo is our store manager Paul Hadler. Thanks, Robert Tait, web administrator Garden Supply Guys (www.GardenSupplyGuys.com) Loving Out Loud I love your mag. Jose Garza Love your magazine and online info. Sharon Calabrese I would love a subscription to your wonderful magazine. I get it whenever I can but the store runs out fast and I miss issues. I love how up-to-date it keeps me with new products. Cody Eurich Maximum Yield has compiled one of the most extensive sources for technical information I have seen. Bob Wheeler, products manager Aquatic Habitats Inc. Apopka, FL I love your magazine. I read it all the time. Ricardo Your article on light sources, amount of time and heat was very informative. Julie Brothers Westchester County, NY Thanks. We love you too! Keeping growing and keep reading Maximum Yield. We appreciate all your comments. 12 Maximum Yield USA | August 2011 Ask and You Shall Receive I am looking for information on hydroponically-grown fodder (animal feed). We have horses and chickens and both can be fed with this fodder. The systems being sold are very expensive but look really simple; although in building my own system I found it to be more complicated than I first thought. Barley is used primarily but one can include flax, wheat and other seeds. The growing cycle is only six to seven days from seed to harvest and one pound of seed produces seven pounds of feed. This makes the system cost-effective and could cut feed cost in half; not to mention the lush green quality of the feed. Some of the feed we buy (dry grass and hay) can last up to one year and fresh is better! I can’t find any hydroponic parts’ manufacturers catering to this market and the information is hard to come by. Other horse and cattle owners I’ve talked to are very interested in this information; the cost of feed is going up with gas prices, and the higher it goes the better this system looks and there’s no question it’s better for the horses. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you, Sonny Hinkle Sonny, you’ll be thrilled to learn that the world-renowned hydroponic consultant and book author (not to mention esteemed Maximum Yield contributor) Dr. Lynette Morgan agreed this topic would be worthy for the pages of Maximum Yield and of interest to our readers. Look for her article Fantasic Fresh Fodder in the September issue of Maximum Yield USA, available online and in hydroponic retail shops around the world. We want to hear from you! Write us at: Maximum Yield Publications Inc. 2339 Delinea Place, Nanaimo, BC V9T 5L9 or e-mail us at: [email protected]