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[compost_tea] Re: IMOs, KNFA, soil species diversity



--- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> We work with researchers at Cornell University - Janice Thies for 
one.  We 
> also work with people at Southern Cross University in New South 
Wales, in 
> Australia.
> 
> They of course work with many other people, so the network is 
pretty good.  
> 
> There's a company in Australia, Vistoria I think, offering DNA 
analysis of 
> soil.  They are looking specifically at the pathogens, and the cost 
is $75 
> Australian.  So the ability to do diversity using realistic methods 
is happening.  
> SFI hopes to offer  the molecular approach once it gets to be a 
reasonable 
> price.  We have people working on these methods.   Just keep your 
eyes peeled 
> with respect to who will be first!
> 
> Um, we will be putting together a CD on how to do tea assessment 
using a $350 
> small microscope.  This is just for tea (can't do leaf surface 
yet), and only 
> for relative numbers of bacteria, fungi and protozoa.


><><><<><><><><>Alright!!!!!When do we start?  Do we get to stain our 
fingers and trousers too? Dennis






  The activity work and 
> leaf surface assessment is yet to come. 
> 
> Elaine Ingham
> President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
> www.soilfoodweb.com
> SFI Oregon, USA
> SFI Australia
> SFI New York
> SFI Europe
> SFI New Zealand
> 
> "Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn 
out well, 
> but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter 
how things 
> turn out."   --  Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech 
Republic


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