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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pesticides Disrupt Nitrogen Fixation
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:30:55 -0600

I don't know if you all have heard that the price of N fertilizer is supposed to double in 2008 over what it was last year. Some of it will be demand for corn for ethanol production (which only comes even close to being profitable due to US govt subsidies) but my son tells me that the real problem is that we are running out of natural gas.
In light of this info, I had assumed that there would be a sudden rush toward organic agriculture by any farmers leaning in that direction, and the rest of them deciding they needed to grow more beans. If this article is true, that common pesticides stop N fixation, it's going to throw a monkey wrench in the system.




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