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ROULSTON WRONG
ON EMU FARMING
I am very disappointed with the
unprofessional, misleading, and
closed -minded column by Keith
Roulston in the April, 1991 issue. He
condemns the idea of emu farming as
a whim, a concept derived from a
garbage pail. "Al and Pat make emu
farming pay" has sickened me so
much that I feel I have to write this
letter to present some ideas that dis-
credit the column.
Roulston tells how his father used
to do some "figurin"' and make some
"real profits." Anyone who is trying
to pay 1990s expenses with 1950s
prices is all to familiar with "figurin'."
Then he tries to tie the fictitious paper
profits of "figurin— with emu farm-
ing. I feel this is where one of his
mistakes is made. If Roulston would
have taken even 10 or 20 minutes to
call the Jodoins, the American Emu
Association, or any of the thousands
of emu breeders in North America, he
would have learned the prices and the
production figures used in his own
article are true and proven. He never
once mentioned that the industry has
been built on lower prices, but de-
mand from new breeders, because of
the viability of emu farming, has
pushed prices up to their current
level.
We became interested in emu
farming because we wanted to stay
farming full time. Traditional live-
stock were not able to supplement our
cash crop enterprise to a level where
we could stay farming. We purchased
our first birds after more than one and
a half years of painstaking research
and planning. We certainly never had
a whim to move to the country and put
emu in the back forty.