Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] Radionics in Agriculture

From: Steve Diver <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:21:42 -0500

"Joe" -

Radionics is a regular part of quantum agriculture, but QA
is naturally a small percentage of sustainable farming.

Complementary and alternative medicine is far more
adaptive of subtle energy practices that agriculture as a
field, so you can learn a lot by reading holistic health
practitioner literature.

There are plenty of resources and technology to support
radionics in agriculture.  

You might want to know that many oldtimers on Sanet won't
put much effort into replies for anonymous emailers and
one-named emailers. Basically, the more you participate
and provide contextual details, the better it gets.

Steve Diver

joe wrote:

> Hello all,
>  
> I have just finished watching the "Radionics in Agriculture" sampler 
> video tape which I purchased through "Acres U.S.A", as taught by Arden 
> Andersen. I'd be interested in hearing feedback from someone who has 
> done the full course and uses this method in farming. I've read Hugh 
> Lovel's articles on the subject.
>  
> Thanks,  Joe
>  
>

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From: Joel Gruver <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:18:02 -0400

Hello folks,

The following review article may be of interest:

Joel

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 80–86.

Biodiversity, ecosystem function, and resilience: ten guiding principles for 
commodity production landscapes Joern Fischer,a David B Lindenmayer,a and 
Adrian D Manninga

aCentre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National 
University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia ([email-masked])

Biodiversity conservation in forestry and agricultural landscapes is 
important because (1) reserves alone will not protect biodiversity; (2) 
commodity production relies on vital services provided by biodiversity; and 
(3) biodiversity enhances resilience, or a system's capacity to recover from 
external pressures such as droughts or management mistakes. We suggest ten 
guiding principles to help maintain biodiversity, ecosystem function, and 
resilience in production landscapes. Landscapes should include structurally 
characteristic patches of native vegetation, corridors and stepping stones 
between them, a structurally complex matrix, and buffers around sensitive 
areas. Management should maintain a diversity of species within and across 
functional groups. Highly focused management actions may be required to 
maintain keystone species and threatened species, and to control invasive 
species. These guiding principles provide a scientifically defensible 
starting point for the integration of conservation and production, which is 
urgently required from both an ecological and a long-term economic 
perspective.

Joel Gruver
Dept of Soil Science
NC State University
[email-masked]

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From: Joel Gruver <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:22:59 -0400

Hello folks,

This review may also be of interest...

Joel

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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 533–539.

Microbe management: application of mycorrhyzal fungi in sustainable 
agriculture
Miranda M Hart,a and Jack T Trevorsa

aDepartment of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, 
Canada N1G 2W1 ([email-masked])

There is an increasing need to find alternatives to high-intensity 
agriculture. Intensively managed agrosystems are inefficient and lead to 
reduced ecosystem functioning and environmental degradation. These effects 
are predicted to magnify under the warmer, drier climate of the future. 
Plant growth-promoting microbes promise to replace or supplement many 
destructive, high-intensity practices. Symbiotic fungi, such as arbuscular 
mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in particular, may be useful in agrosystems, but 
their use has languished for decades. The benefits of using AMF are 
undeniable, so why haven't they been incorporated into cropping systems? 
Research shows that AMF functioning may be much more complex than previously 
thought. Until we can elucidate their functional variation, and classify it 
on a useful taxonomic level, practical applications of AMF cannot move 
forward.

Joel Gruver
Dept of Soil Science
NC State University
[email-masked]

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From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:31:53 -0400

Joel Gruver wrote:

> Microbe management: application of mycorrhyzal fungi in sustainable agriculture
> reduced ecosystem functioning and environmental degradation. These 
> effects are predicted to magnify under the warmer, drier climate of the 
> future. Plant growth-promoting microbes promise to replace or supplement 
> many destructive, high-intensity practices. Symbiotic fungi, such as 
> arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in particular, may be useful in 
> agrosystems, but their use has languished for decades. The benefits of 
> using AMF are undeniable, so why haven't they been incorporated into 
> cropping systems? Research shows that AMF functioning may be much more 
> complex than previously thought. Until we can elucidate their functional 
> variation, and classify it on a useful taxonomic level, practical 
> applications of AMF cannot move forward.

Once this is done wouldn't it be worthwhile developing strategies for reducing water loss from evaporation and runoff. A 
system that includes biomass production for mulching crop acreage plus notill drill into
living mulch would be as radical as using symbiotic fungi as a standardized farming method. Setting aside acreage, in 
rotation, for growing hay crops for mulch or plowdown for augmenting soil organic matter would make a huge difference
in controlling moisture loss while providing a more favorable environment for beneficial soil fungi. Mulching large crop 
acreage can be accomplished by growing hay crops on land newly fertilized with manures. The hay can be cut and round 
baled for application in strips on rows or beds or between rows or beds, or both, with a tractor-mounted bale unroller. 
Accompanying this, altering tillage and seedbed formation techniques might allow innovative, intensive production 
methods to be used. Large raised beds with furrows between them cut below grade, heavily mulched, would provide an ideal 
environment for beneficial soil microorganisms.  Beds like this could be semi permanent, tilled only when mulch has 
broken down, maybe every few years, or never - only re-mulched, and drill planted. New harvesting machinery could be 
developed to handle raised bed cropping.

LL

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From: Dale Wilson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:46:18 -0700

Hi Joel and Lawrence,

Joel posted:
>> "Research shows that AMF functioning may be much more 
>> complex than previously thought. Until we can elucidate
>> their functional variation, and classify it on a useful
>> taxonomic level, practical applications of AMF cannot move
>> forward."

That statement needs to be understood in the context of commercial
product development.  After all we "use" AMF all the time by just
planting crops in the field.  They are normal parts of most crop's
ecology.

Lawrence wrote:
> A system that includes biomass production for mulching crop acreage
> plus notill drill into living mulch would be as radical as using
> symbiotic fungi as a standardized farming method. Setting aside
> acreage, in rotation, for growing hay crops for mulch or plowdown
> for augmenting soil organic matter would make a huge difference
> in controlling moisture loss while providing a more favorable
> environment for beneficial soil fungi.

Producing large amounts of biomass and leaving it in the field is good
for all kinds of organisms.  WRT arbuscular mycorrhizae in particular,
several additional practices affect root colonization, tillage,
phosphorus, crop and weed species, fallow, and maybe fungicide use.

These fungi make networks of mycelia in the soil, and this is broken up
by tillage.  The network comes back after a while even if it is broken
up.  There is no clear distinction between beneficial and parasitic
AMF/plant relationships.  The main benefit the crop gets from the
relationship is phosphorus.  If you load the system with P, the crop
resists infection by AMF.  It doesn't need the help.  It is not like
the roots and fungi are down there singing Kumbaya.

Crops in the mustard family (canola, cabbage, etc) don't form
associations with AMF.  When you follow these crops (or fallow),
establishing a strong crop/AMF association takes longer.  Of course, if
the cruciferous crop or fallow is weedy, there will be a stronger AMF
presence for the following crop.

Effect of fungicides on AMF is a big subject because there are
different AMF species and many, many different fungicides that differ
in persistence and toxicity to AMF.  From what I have been able to
glean from searching the web, it takes high rates of fungicides to hurt
AMF.  Some fungicides do not hurt AMF even at very high rates. 
Fumigation with a biocide like Vapam would, of course, knock it way
back.

Here are a few links that I found on mycorrhizae.  The first has
particularly beautiful pictures.
http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e33/33b.htm
http://www.soilhealth.segs.uwa.edu.au/components/fungi
http://westgroup.icapb.ed.ac.uk/pdf/KiersWestDen_02.pdf
http://atlas.sct.embrapa.br/pab/pab.nsf/0/fcfdb12cccf40377032567cb0077b892/$FILE/pab97_101.pdf
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicveg/downloads/58OZAKI%20CD.pdf
http://www.mycorrhizae.com/index.php?cid=396
http://www.bi.ku.dk/staff/rasmusk/BiolFertilSoils31_361-365.pdf
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=404392

Dale

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From: James Kotcon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:35:37 -0400

Another useful web site, particularly those serious about culturing and 
taxonomy of AMF, is the International VA Mycorrhizae Culture Collection at 
West Virginia University.

http://www.invam.caf.wvu.edu/

Also, since AMF are obligate parasites, adding large amounts of biomass/ 
organic matter to soil has little direct effect.  They require a plant host 
to reproduce, so any effect of organic amendments is mediated through the 
host plant.

JBK

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From: Steve Diver <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:21:42 -0500

"Joe" -

Steve Diver