James;
As a farmer you know that a great deal gets pedalled to you on the basis of
no evidence but plenty of hearsay, extravagant claims etc. The best way to
deal with this is to ask for independent trials to be conducted in your area
(Margaret River?) preferably at a state government facility. If the stuff
has any value, then you can consider it based on the cost versus the
expected improvement. Most marketers will have a fair bit of science mixed
in with their marketing jargon. They know that there are always some farmers
who will find their marketing attractive, their claims believable.
My advice to you - get them to conduct independent trials. The facts will
speak for themselves. Asking us to judge a product based on claims by people
selling it is unlikely to provide much useful info.
SS
From: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com [mailto:compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of jwoenne
Sent: 28 March 2011 14:19
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [compost_tea] Best Environmental Technologies?
I have been lurking for years, making and using AACT on my vineyard near the
south coast of Western Australia, and learning heaps from this list. But I
have seldom posted.
Does anyone know anything about products from Best Environmental
Technologies of Alberta, Canada? (www.bestenvirotech.com) In Australia they
market a product called TM21. I don't think they use that name in Canada.
What I know is that they claim the product promotes the local soil
microbiology. They do not claim that the product has any soil microbiology
in it. They say nothing else about what the product is or how it operates.
They market very cleverly thorough the farming community, in that they
appoint local farmers as local distributors. All marketing seems to be based
on results, that is, on testimonials from farmers. The testimonials are what
you would expect from the very good results we would expect from greatly
improved soil biology.
James Woenne
Denmark, Western Australia
Received on Mon Mar 28 2011 - 12:51:59 EDT