[compost_tea] Re: Best Environmental Technologies?

From: camlaurie <camlaurie_at_activ8.net.au>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:47:29 -0000


Interesting comments about TM21- I have used it fairly widely- along with L=
CE and ACT, and I agree that it would be nice if they would be a little les=
s secretive about what is in it, however it does, in my opinion, work. I ha=
ve also used many other things like molasses, fulvic and Humic as well as T=
una at higher rates. BEST does have some fairly good data available about t=
he efficacy of their product, not biological assays but soil temperature co=
mparisons as well as yield mapping in broadacre wheat.
I agree that there are many "products" that one can spend ones money on and=
 that some are more effective than others. Really what everyone needs is to=
 be able to know the true effects of everything they apply to their systems=
(both good and bad)to enable them to be effective soil and land managers. I=
t is a bit like being given a formula to calibrate your sprayer without kno=
wing how to work it out from first principles.

Cam Laurie
--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "jwoenne" <jrrwoenne_at_...> wrote:
>
> 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. Bu=
t I have seldom posted.
>
> Does anyone know anything about products from Best Environmental Technolo=
gies 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 microb=
iology. 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 ap=
point local farmers as local distributors. All marketing seems to be based =
on results, that is, on testimonials from farmers. The testimonials are wha=
t you would expect from the very good results we would expect from greatly =
improved soil biology.
>
> James Woenne
> Denmark, Western Australia
>




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