>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Hugh Lovel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:04 PM >Subject: Re: What is Magic? > Dear Michelle,
If you can manage to make barrel compost and apply it via your irrigation system, you will be applying actual microi-organisms. Doing the irrigation water with radionic prep treatments will supply the patterns for those micro-organisms to succeed, but it won't apply the micro-organisms. Because the better species seem to be fairly widespread it may not make much difference. But on biologically dead soils it might. On your sandy soil I wouldn't want to place bets either way. One of our field broadcaster owners down on Florida has even sandier soil than you. Hers was almost pure sand 12 years ago when I first saw her farm. She's one of the reasons I'm selling field broadcasters and she has two of my earliest models and was the first to have horn clay patterns in her broadcasters. Now 6 years later her dairy farm is antibiotic free for 5 years, and hasn't bought in any fertilizers in 3 years. She's composting and using that as the input for her pure sand hayfields growing summer peanut and winter annual rye forages. She says she is almost at the point of grazing her dairy cows and completely getting off grain supplements. Her land has never looked better in the history of her dairy. And she is irrigating less. So sandy land can be good, even though I'd prefer clay. I bet you could grow good potatoes on your sand anyway. It's good to hear that your water is relatively nitrate free. As you keep nitrogen inputs to the minimum you can hope to maintain that. As for rainmaking, if anyone can put together a class, I'd like to see at least 30 attendees and go two days. I want to make $2,000 out of it, so with the hall and some catering, that comes to close to $100 per attendee. One of the frustrations I feel is that most people are so plugged into advertising and the pictures and totally engineered sales pitches in the major farm magazines. The picture looks so cool to have lemons wall-to-wall all bushy and green. But what is the point? Growing foliage or fruit? It's all so deceptive. The corn you showed me from in the past compared to the recent higher quality shows the true story, while, as you say the elevator doesn't pay any extra for the quality. That's pretty discouraging, knowing that if you grow responsibly you don't get(m)any breaks. I planted a couple acres or corn in an old hayfield this year, with just a field broadcaster, tillage and seed, and I got another good corn crop, comparable to what Is got on my own acreage the year before. I know I'm growing a big, tall open-pollenated flint corn that makes great corn meal but doesn't yield high. So I probably don't have 100 bushels to the acre, more like 60. I'm going to have to plant the usual hybrids to see what kind of yields I can really get with them in terms of bushels, but that rankles because my main interest is quality, rather than quantity. They aren't the best corn strains. But anyway I'm talking about rennovating hayfields and building up the organic matter with a crop of corn, and then returning the fields to hay--nosI planted this year showed early signs when the corn was only 8 inches tall, of phosphorus deficiency. The phosphorus was there and it was really copper deficiency, and with application of copper this field performed pretty good--some really good corn despite the fact it got off to a poor start. Usually getting off to a poor start is the death of corn, but this was just a little adjustment of $15 worth of copper sulfate crystals spread by my cyclone seeder. I'm going to plant 10 acres this way next year as a better test. But I'm clear that abandoning nitrogen inputs entirely are the direction we need to head in. I'm far from sure that we can all go there at once. But I'm clear that all of agriculture must go there as soon as possible. We've got the tools. Our homeopathic remedies and means for applying them are good enough already, though they may improve. We can create the conditions in virtually any soils to fix nitrogen out of the air and dispense with nitrogen fertilizers. And in the process everything we grow will improve in quality. This leaves us at no winning development, does it not? But it is a win to KNOW we can do a different agriculture with homeopathics and radionics, despite the fact that the market doesn't give us much advantage. Our slight advantage is that we know we can get our nitrogen out of the air and can make rain in timely fashion. I hope it's enough. Best, Hugh Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
