The only way to know the effect of any material is to test it. If you wonder about effect on tea organisms, you have to make a tea, pull two volumes, treating them just exactly the same, and add the test material to one of the volumes, and not to the other. Remember to add the same amount of water to the CONTROL (no PRODUCT added) as you added to the test volume.
Send BOTH in to have the biology tested.
With a soil applied material, take two areas that are exactly the same. To one, apply the product, to the other, apply the same volume of water without the product. You might want to wait for a month before sampling when doing soil, to see the long term impact and the effect on the mycorrhizal fungi on the roots.
That's the only way to go on anything that we don't know what it does. OK?
If you want to have SFI publish the data, then you have to repeat the same control - treatment comparisons THREE TIMES. Preferably three control - treatment pairs at the same time, and then three control- treatment pairs at three different times of year. The replication is absolutely necessary when doing science. If you do all that, I'll be happy to write up the manuscript and get it published.
If you are going to gain financial benefit from work like this, then I would expect to be paid for my time in writing the manuscript, right? Please understand that I have bills that have to be paid too.
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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Received on Wed Oct 01 2003 - 12:18:46 EDT