Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

The really interesting part of this is that manures are a great source of high quality phosphate speaking again to the point of having farms with animals and plants eh?  Rotate them though.......

Blessings,

Aliza
www.eftashland.com


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--- On Fri, 6/4/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] phosphate fertilizer too?
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Friday, June 4, 2010, 1:38 PM

When the price of oil rises, as demand outsrips supply, agriculture will
likewise become more expensive. This will make staple foods cost more
throughout the world, possibly sparking food riots, and increasing the
level of tension over resources such as water.

It’s wrong to look at depletion of any one resource in the absence of
others, because they all play together – at the most basic, a rise in the
price of oil will push demand for natural gas, for instance. In addition,
many writers are independently plotting declines of resources that fit a
similar timeline, coming together over the coming decade or so. For
instance, an April 2010 Foreign Policy article, Peak phosphorus, stated
that demand for this mineral – which is subject to the Hubbert bell curve
model of decline – is already outstripping production enough to raise
prices. Phosphate fertilizer prices rose 350 per cent between 2003 and
2008, they claim. If this is not addressed we could face “a Malthusian
trap of widespread famine on a scale that we have not yet experienced.”

http://peakgeneration.blogspot.com/2010/06/government-investigates-resource.html

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