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  • From: Soilsecrets@aol.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Compost tea vs compost direct on acre
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:09:43 EDT

To Bob,
 
That is a bunch of gobbly gook nonsense.  You obviously have bought into the Gentle Aerobic Compost Tea agenda and probably spent several thousand dollars purchasing a machine that could have been home built for much less.   
 
Students,  scientists and range management research staff in the 60's, 70's, 80's and early 90's at the New Mexico State University Jornada Ranch and Ag Center studied and played with Compost tea, tea machines, and even the so called EM microbes or lactic acid forming bacteria (that was done in the 60's).  Final conclusion was that it was not consistently effective in helping to increase forage yields or nutrient concentration of the fodder.  These studies went on a long time because of the hopeful optimism of scientists like myself.  We really wanted to see it work and were willing to spend time and money looking for the best compost, the best machine and the best methodology of making the tea in order to make it work. As for Gentle Aerobic Compost tea, the compost tea brewers being sold commercially today are crude in comparison to the machines built and studied at NMSU during those years.   
 
Dr. Michael



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