Re: [compost_tea] Re: Good news?
Hi Linda,
I said the simple answer, we do not know everything, and right now only
one side. There's a big difference between the real world and the lab,
and the real world sometimes is not a very pleasant place, lacking
ethics and professional courtesy. An opinion was solicited, and I gave
mine.....which on this list is usually not very popular, but I'll stand
by it just the same, afterall I am a non-lemming.
I think that the question is not that SFI has the monoploy on testing,
but that they set the standard. A standard has to be adhered to. I know
that I've just back tracked on an opinion that I made several months
ago, but now I see the light..oh brother! So I think the question is if
you're planning on dropping that kind of coin on a CT system, would you
want a standardized test?? Would'nt you want to know if what you're
applying and if it's harmful......??
Again opinions are like compost holes.......
Bill
Linda wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Good advise, and maybe BBC too. That would insure this remains a one
> horse town with no validation from any other labs. Isn't anyone else
> concerned about being unable to find any other lab capable of testing
> with "proper equations"? Am I to believe I'm about to invest 8-10K
> and only SFI can validate my tea?
>
>
> Linda
>
>
>
> --- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, wpb_at_s... wrote:
> > The simple answer is yes, sue, with extreme prejudice. Make an
> example
> > of her.
> > Bill
> >
> > soilfoodweb_at_a... wrote:
> >
> > > Lynn Rogers was a technician in my lab, and learned a few of the
> SFI
> > > assays.
> > >
> > > Two and a half years ago, she told me she had to quit SFI to move
> to
> > > Seattle, where her husband was getting a much better paying job.
> > >
> > > They never left the Corvallis area. Her story was a lie.
> > >
> > > Lynn opened up Microbila Matrix with Joe Preston last May or
> June, and
> > > the two of them had a falling out by September.
> > >
> > > Lynn has re-structured the lab, and is now on her own.
> > >
> > > She doesn't know the recent improvements in the SFI testing that
> we
> > > have developed in the last two years. She doesn't have the data
> base
> > > that SFI has.,
> > >
> > > The tests that I've seen from her lab, she has messed up the
> template
> > > she took from SFI. The equations she is using to calculate fungal
>
> > > biomass are not correct.
> > >
> > > What I saw on a couple of the reports she put out had fungal
> biomass
> > > levels that were completely impossible in compost tea.
> > >
> > > If you want to use her lab, ask her where her data are that
> allows her
> > > to come up with the "desired ranges" on her reports.
> > >
> > > Should I sue her for using information from SFI that she has no
> right
> > > to be using? Or just ignore her?
> > >
> > > 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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