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[Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi,

Found this USDA, ARS article on research into farmers
growing their own mycorrhizae fungi and spreading it using
manure spreaders;

  http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may01/fungi0501.htm

     "The researchers' goal is to have suppliers sell
     farmers
     colonized host plants for planting—not as a crop,
     but
     to start colonies of the fungi in soil, compost,
     or a
     compost/soil mix. Then, after the fungi have had
     time
      to multiply, farmers would apply the colonized
     soil in
     manure spreaders along with their compost."

This would certainly reduce fertilzer costs for farmers (and
others), and possibly help in drought tolerance of plants
(with these strange seasons we have been having)..

Later,
Tom
--
Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 6a



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