[Terrapreta] You Are What You Grow

[Jon C. Frank]

Peter> Corn is such a heavy feeder and we know what it will be eating and
the soil poverty it will be leaving behind.

Corn is excellent for building humus and biomas in the soil.  The problem is
not raising corn--it is how it is raised.  The deeper problem is goverment
policy that pushes the price low with subsidies.  A hands off approach would
be much better.

Jon
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  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] You Are What You Grow



  In a message dated 9/11/07 2:04:04 PM, sean.barry at juno.com writes:



    The use of industrially made, fossil-fuel based fertilizers is a
shameful gluttony that Industrial Agriculture has done for this country.
    It may be one of the worst things that we have ever done to the land.





  And the advent of growing millions of tons of extra corn to turn into
ethanol isn't going to help matters one bit! Corn is such a heavy feeder and
we know what it will be eating and the soil poverty it will be leaving
behind. It's really like robbing Peter to pay Paul, but typical of
'addicted' behavior; no thought really of anything beyond the continued flow
of the substance we love so much. We need an intervention! Anyone else read
Asimov's Childhood's End? We can hope, because that's what it's apparently
going to take to change our wicked ways!

  Sorry for wandering off topic :-/>.

  Peter :-)>


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