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Re: [Livingontheland] Compost tea vs compost direct on acre
- 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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Re: [Livingontheland] Compost tea vs compost direct on acre,
Soilsecrets, 06/11/2006
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