[Carpenter] Osage Orange

[Kevin N Carpenter]

Greatly appreciated Danelia.

The concept is to restore osage orange as a "green" (and hopefully 
superior) alternative to barb wire for smaller farms. In my case, I 
would be experimenting with a 1/4 mile run of it. I can understand a 
Texas rancher not wanting to maintain 10s of miles of it, but perhaps 
for us smaller "couple of hundred acre" folks this would prove suitable 
and potentially improve wildlife habitat. I'm not row cropping, so am 
not concerned about the shade or water uptake.

Thanks again,

Kevin

Danelia Johnston wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I couldn’t find much on instructions of planting a living fence row, 
> but I asked Greg about machine planting them, he said it was possible 
> to do, you would just need to go slow and preferably when it’s cold so 
> you can wear coveralls and gloves. J If you have any other questions 
> or would like to talk to Greg directly, his email is 
> Greg.Hoss at mdc.mo.gov <mailto:Greg.Hoss at mdc.mo.gov> and his Ext. is 222.
>
> Have a good day!
>
> *Danelia L. Johnston*
>
> Administrative Staff Assistant
>
> George O. White Nursery
>
> 14027 Shafer Rd
>
> Licking MO 65542
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> 573-674-3229 Ext 221
>