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Re: [compost_tea] Any Comments or reply to this?
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I personally find it very interesting, any
comments?
daniel
Blame this one on me, folks, but one of the most
astounding upshots
of this week's conference was the chance to meet with
experienced
growers who have worked with compost tea and who have found teas
to
be much less effective than we have heard people proclaim them to
be.
Alan York asks people to ask the hard questions. He
says a hard
question right now is 'Do you know of a vineyard that has
effectively
controlled foliar disease with compost tea for three
seasons.' He's
willing to back this question down to one season. (The
unusually dry
summer this past year has eleviated foliar diseases across the
board,
tea or no tea.)
Vicki Bess, who is a compost tea advocate who spoke
at this
conference, felt that the push to diversity and high counts is not a
push towards teas that really work on the soils or even the leaves.
She
said, and Will Brinton concurred, that it is the feeds in the
teas that
select the final microbial mix and these microbes were not
necessarily the
ones that would do as good of works as ones commonly
dominant in dry
compost. Will Brinton stated that there is not need
for pumped up
populations of microbials. He feels that this is
unfounded, unscientific
hysteria. He went on to say that good compost
tea has all the microbiology a
person needs for controlling foliar
disease - WITHOUT BREWING IT other than
we do already!! Think about
it folks:
Even better: Compost tea and brewer sales people in
Pennsylvania have
received letters from the EPA telling them that they
cannot sell
their products as disease control products because there is NO
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE EFFECTIVE.
Again - I'm sharing this info for your own
evaluation. I've got egg
on my face, of course.
-Allan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:57
AM
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Re: Why have regs, and
the ICTC
> Elaine,
> Thanks for your response, and all your points were
well taken. But
> believe me, it's just the tip of the
iceberg. I too am eagerly waiting
> for responses to Laura's
questions, and I believe that since this was
> the venue chosen to
solicit members, this is where the answers should
> be. I feel this was
just a retaliatory response to the "big industry"
> association, and
might lack the necessary thought and substance to be
> viable. I hope I
am proven very, very wrong. I haven't eaten crow for
> quite some time,
but I ALWAYS carry some A-1 sauce with me.
>
> Bill
Baranick
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