So is this how it supposedly works to kill the
plants? By overfeeding the soil bacteria
so that they out compete fungi, plants and then possibly the bacteria??
Mike
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Round-up is a bacterial food. That data is in Monsanto
literature, and good luck getting that information from them.
The data showing that has been repeated by a number of folks, because I see
that data coming through in the lab reports, but I'm not sure it has ever been
published it in the scientific literature as a table of data. Why?
If you make any mention of proprietary products in the literature, you get some
big corporation breathing down your neck, scaring everyone with law
suits.
But we see, over and over, round-up is a bacterial food. Elevate
bacterial activity significantly and you can see a detrimental effect on fungal
activity. Bacteria and fungi - in general - compete for food resources,
mineral resources, space, and produce inhibitory compounds that may affect the
growth of other organisms.
Maybe other folks are more up in the literature than I. I expect if
you asked Steve Diver of ATTRA about this subject, he could direct you to the
published literature.
Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
SFI Corvallis, OR
SFI Port Jefferson, NY
SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
www.soilfoodweb.com
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