Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>]

Hi Dieter,

It is suprising how far grass roots can grow.  I live in Kudzu country and there can be as much root under the ground as there are vines on top of it . . . kinda scary to think about lol.

Norma

 

On 4/29/07, Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com> wrote:

Mike,

 

Thanks for the clarification.  Still, there are a number of questions that remain at least

in my mind.  With 18 to 24 inches, the Keyline subsoilers go deep into the subsoil,

it is hard to imagine that grass roots go as deep as that.  Also, in relation to the Carbon Farmers claims, is the improved growth really due to the sequestration of CO2 from the

atmosphere? Or is it due to the aeration of the permanent humus in the subsoil?

Claiming carbon credits for CO2 sequestration while in reality burning the carbon

accumulated in the permanent humus decades ago can hardly be right. 

And how do the Carbon Farmers account for the fuel you need to subsoil grazing

land with very powerful machines, an external input normally not required for grazing

land.  Well, I suppose if they fail to make any money with their carbon credit scheme,

they can always try and charge their cattle farmers for the methane emissions of their

stock.  I better stop, or I will get into a really black mood.

 

Cheers, Dieter

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