No offense taken. We're a greenhouse in central Maine, heating greenhouses from January1 24/7 thru 2nd week of April, after that, maybe nightly for another 30 days. Under Dept of Ag regs, we're considered seasonal, so all the tax right offs and Ag rebates the big plug producers and plant growers get, we don't qualify for. If a crop dies, there's no crop insurance that'll cover it; if we have to dump half a greenhouse worth of product, there's no tax right off. Under seasonal greenhouse Ag regs, if I lost my job, I can't claim unemployment. Heat is our biggest expense. Right now, it's 800 gallons propane a week @$2.20/gallon. Wednesday the big house gets turned on, and heat costs almost double. We're too small to qualify for REAP grants from D of AG, so no taxpayers paid for anything. It was a 30k loan, and the monthly payment is about what the electric bill used to be. It's a commercial installation, and we do net metering, no batteries. We had to do something to save money somewhere. We're retail/wholesale, and the only wholesale grower in the state(there are 3, total in Maine) that has no minimum purchase requirement, which means a lot to other small growers, farmers, grocery and hardware stores in the 5 counties we service. We have to stay open, matter what. There's such a thing called Yankee ingenuity here; if a dairy farmer who milks 1000 head can use cow shit to power his farm, save on electric and save $20k per year in fertilizer for himself, and hay and potato farmers nearby, I'm all for it. Not pushing the Green New Deal, at all. I'm a greenhouse grower, remember? I have loggers in my family. Plants eat carbon. The only thing keeping us from plunging into another ice age is carbon emissions. So you know GMOs are the hoax before climate change, right, or did you figure that one out?
No offense taken. We're a greenhouse in central Maine, heating greenhouses from January1 24/7 thru 2nd week of April, after that, maybe nightly for another 30 days. Under Dept of Ag regs, we're considered seasonal, so all the tax right offs and Ag rebates the big plug producers and plant growers get, we don't qualify for. If a crop dies, there's no crop insurance that'll cover it; if we have to dump half a greenhouse worth of product, there's no tax right off. Under seasonal greenhouse Ag regs, if I lost my job, I can't claim unemployment. Heat is our biggest expense. Right now, it's 800 gallons propane a week @$2.20/gallon. Wednesday the big house gets turned on, and heat costs almost double. We're too small to qualify for REAP grants from D of AG, so no taxpayers paid for anything. It was a 30k loan, and the monthly payment is about what the electric bill used to be. It's a commercial installation, and we do net metering, no batteries. We had to do something to save money somewhere. We're retail/wholesale, and the only wholesale grower in the state(there are 3, total in Maine) that has no minimum purchase requirement, which means a lot to other small growers, farmers, grocery and hardware stores in the 5 counties we service. We have to stay open, matter what. There's such a thing called Yankee ingenuity here; if a dairy farmer who milks 1000 head can use cow shit to power his farm, save on electric and save $20k per year in fertilizer for himself, and hay and potato farmers nearby, I'm all for it. Not pushing the Green New Deal, at all. I'm a greenhouse grower, remember? I have loggers in my family. Plants eat carbon. The only thing keeping us from plunging into another ice age is carbon emissions. So you know GMOs are the hoax before climate change, right, or did you figure that one out?