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Paying to find non-GE wild corn?
Gordon Couger wrote:
My soils aren't quit as old as those in Australia. They are some of the oldest in North America. Diamoium phosphate was the main sauce we used. Mixing it with ammonium nitrate, Urea or on the high pH soils ammonium sulfate to get the ratio of N & P we wanted. Any trace elements would be added to that. We couldn't get a economic response from potasium in most cases. Intensely irrigated Bermuda grass would show a response. But sandy soils just becomes a hydroponic media for Bermuda grass if you push it hard enough. DAP would not be acceptable to an organic farmer but rock phosphate is. And AFIK there is no rule against trace elements if they can use copper in their fungicide they should be able to use it in their fertilizer or put on a heavy treatment of fungicide. It doesn't take much copper. There is a tremendous amount to learn. Moosh:] has been relating about varied diets being more healthy for humans. And varied life on earth seems more healthy. Currently we have powerful technology and can change the earth in a large region for the current whim. Well fire has always been a powerful technology used, but is mused more. The Aboriginal Australians used to use top fires before the bush got too dense. The resulting fire would not be so hot. They had learnt over many years and passed on the knowledge. We need to be doing that now. The current GM action seems like a big fire going through a rain forest to open up new land when the nutrients have been taken from the land cleared the year or so before. Yes we need to deal with nutrients. There is knowledge to learn in the organic approach, too. Watch out for yellowcake in the rock phosphate maybe one. I don't think plants absorb much lead from dolomite (allowed?). Organics can be more intense farming. Then land such as New Zealand with low iodine and selenium and specialised life adapted to that could have had more areas saved. I do not think it is healthy to have uniform agriculture and small range of plants and beasts the world over, suiting only the current financial drives we create. We should be taking care of the oceans. The ocean food comes from the surface algae that can grow, and while the area is larger than the land area, the volume cannot be great because the layer is quite thin in contact with light and much oxygen. Seaweeds can anchor near shores and have more volume per area. Let us find out more about what life has done up to the present before setting in to change it for financial reasons with GM things we cannot undo. Rather than put RR or Bt &c genes in several cotton types and say you have increased diversity, increased profit for the mean time or whatever, find out about companion planting, closed ecosystems like marvelously diverse forests, and long duration success. You have your cotton fields, thanks for the photos. Now when the wind comes it moves the sandy soil. So can you get a crop which like marram grass will enable dunes to form? Then you have a greater area of land to some extent. And on the more shaded side of the dunes different plants could grow. Harvesting technology would need to be developed. We need to set aside thinking places and not only relating to what the govt currently enables (Jim's posiiton). |
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