Re: RES: [compost_tea] Inexpensive Tea Blender?

From: Lloyd Charles <lcharles_at_webfront.net.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:02:53 +1100


Without the science, agriculture floundered along doing rather well using
natures accomodating systems. Does nature average out the errors well
enough to let us work the system in simple approximations ? Ok so long as
we don't introduce overload of chemicals/ poisons etc?

Bingo fellas!
                     We've been 3 years changing our system - still got a
long way to go - but here is the first and most noticeable 'difference'
 We moved off the normal acid fertiliser ' mon ammonium phosphate at very
moderate rates as a starter down the tube', to a non acid, blended,
broadcast applied product, I think its a di calcic phosphate and has bio
composted lime sulphur, trace minerals added, we used a little lime,a little
paramagnetic rock (quarry fines not dust), a small quantity of humate all
radionically matched to our soil samples - we put some bio brew on the
stubbles - and again with our (reduced rate) herbicides - sounds complicated
but the cost was comparable with our conventional program.
          What stuck out was on a paddock with soil types from gray sandy
loam through red to brown clay loam was the much more even yield across the
paddock - its one of the things that I have come to expect and look for as a
sign that we are starting to make a little progress - this completely in the
face of the boffins who are desperately flogging variable rate technology on
broadacre tillage and harvesting gear.
            So yes I think nature does average out the errors, if we will
allow it, and maybe help a little.
Cheers all
Lloyd Charles



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