Re: [compost_tea] Re: Good news?
There is the New York lab, and you can talk to Paul Wagner about what he
sees.
Talk to Eric Nelson at Cornell University. He's looked at these methods, and
knows that direct estimations are the way to go, given what we need to know.
Talk to the people who do direct determinations in Australia, New Zealand,
Holland, and soon opening, Mexico, and Canada.
They are independent labs, I don't tell them what to think. But the
technology needs constant and consistent quality control. That's why the labs are
linked. When visual methods are used, you have to maintain a solid frame of
reference about what a fungus looks like. And that's what the SFI lab system does
- we maintain a constant testing system.
Which may be another reason that Microbial Matrix has such bizarre numbers in
their direct counts. One person. without any back-up, makes mistakes. My
lab folks are always checking with each t oher, and with me, about whatthey are
seeing. Is this a ciliate? Or what is it? You have to have the back-up and
the knowledge to know what you are doing.
When I found out last May that Lynn was starting a newI lab, even though she
was doig it dis-honestly, I asked Lynn Rogers if she didn't want to work with
us, to at least do the quality control assessments. She never answered me.
I asked her again when I met her at a meeting in Corvallis is she didn't want
to at least work together on the quality assurance, and share data. She
never got back to me.
I asked her again, when she did finally send an e-mail, but I never got a
response back from her.
I have held out the hand of cooperation, and been ignored.
What is a person to do? Do we have to always have to follow a paradigm of
back-stabbing and undercutting in business?
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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