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[Jerry B <liberty AT kaballero.com>]

Don.
You write:

For an excellent book on the mechanisms or soil, see the soil science book 
sold by Acres USA.  The title completely escapes me and my copy is where 
everything else is, in storage.  There is a lot of misinformation out there 
pushed by people with an agenda and many more people willing to accept that 
information because it is an easy way out.

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If  and when you have access to the title of this book, I would be 
interested in learning  it. When I read your mention of Acres USA, I was 
reminded of this quote from Yeomans (chapter 2, of Priority One....):

" One of the many, and I believe the most, informative and valuable 
consideration and discussion on the destruction of the fertility of 
agricultural soils is in a collection of essays compiled as The Albrecht 
Papers. The Albrecht Papers were published by Charles Walters, Jr. of 
Acres U.S.A. magazine, Kansas City, Missouri. My wife and I stayed with 
ChuckWalters in Kansas City and he visited us when he was in Australia. 
For many years Dr. William A.Albrecht was Professor of Soils, and 
Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri, 
College of Agriculture. See in Chapter6 :page 111: Extra;THE ALBRECHT 
PAPERS.  "

It wasn't the "Albrecht Papers" by any chance?  The list brought up by 
my Amazon search is too large for me to guess which publication it is 
you are referencing.

jerry

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> At 1/31/2008, you [Gene]wrote:
>   
> > The best I can deduce is that dead
> > plant roots contain a lot of carbon and as long as they stay under the
> > ground, then that carbon stays out of the atmosphere.
> > As long as the carbon stays below the level of oxygen in the 
> > soil.  Microbes eat the carbon and emit CO2.  There is a balance between 
> > CO2 production by decay and carbon production by plant growth.  That 
> > balance has been working for several billion years.  Some of the excess 
> > carbon trapped in layers where there is no oxygen have been turned into 
> > well known substances such as peat, coal, diamonds, natural gas, oil, 
> > etc.  Over the last 150 years or so we have been returning much of that 
> > trapped carbon back into the atmosphere with ever increasing disastrous 
> > results.
> >
> > For an excellent book on the mechanisms or soil, see the soil science book 
> > sold by Acres USA.  The title completely escapes me and my copy is where 
> > everything else is, in storage.  There is a lot of misinformation out there 
> > pushed by people with an agenda and many more people willing to accept that 
> > information because it is an easy way out.
> >