From brateaver@earthlink.net Wed Sep 22 00:11:29 1999
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 04:16:10 -0700
From: Bargyla Rateaver <brateaver@earthlink.net>
To: Ted Rogers <TROGERS@ars.usda.gov>
Cc: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu, janebug@hotmail.com, jlozier@wvu.edu
Subject: Re: IFOAM statement at Maastricht -Reply -Reply

Anyone interested in humus, etc., should be certain to read'
    Humic, Fulvic and Microbial Balance--Organic Soil Conditioning
     by William  Jackson.

Until you have read this, you haven't covered the field. Just the references
alone, would be worth the time--1500 of them.

Ted Rogers wrote:

> Jane, thanks for your earlier comment and this response; I am afraid that
> any positive feelings I might have had toward IFOAM fell by the wayside
> a while back, familiarity and all that (see Bart's comment).  Yeah, despite
> my discomforts with precision agriculture and some other of the
> "advanced approaches" they occasionally show some promise.  I am
> seeing a great deal of good stuff going on in the so called conventional
> realm.  I have even run into a few folks who know what humus is and
> that it ain't "just organic matter", wonders never cease.
>
> There are so many structural problems that will take generations to
> effect.  Where are the truly competent managers of agro-ecosystems in
> the numbers necessary to establish what you or I might formulate as an
> ideal agrarian system...
>
> We are very fortunate to have folks like Steve Groff out there slugging;
> just wish there were more of them.
>
> Best,
>
> Ted
>
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