I have glanced the article which was kindly sent to me by Dave Robinson or the Walter Goldstein's article from Sept Biodynamics " Cation Balancing : Is it beneficial or Bogus ?" It came to me as a surprise because I had this magazine in high respect. To my knowledge they don�t have any one to review the articles otherwise they would not allow such a bunch of crap like that to be published . Here is why. Page 30 First paragraph. " The effect of calcium ( a divalent cation) in stabilizing structure is not as strong as that of iron ( a trivalent cation) but it is stronger than of magnesium ( a monovalent cation)" (sic). Is Mr Goldstein an iliterate person or is he a misinformed person ? How can a magazine such as Biodynamics allow low quality material to be printed ? Not only the article is full of bad information but this person did not do his home work properly. Mr Goldstein who has no knowledge on The Albrecht Model ( I know that because his level of doubts are the ones from a person who has not readed the 4 volumes of The Albrecht Papers or at least the book "Hands-on-Agronomy or any other book from Dr Ardensen like "Science in Agriculture" or even "The Anatomy of Life and Energy in Agriculture") tried to write about the Albrecht Model which was the culmination of a life time of teaching and research of one of the best person United Stated has ever produced. He based his article only in an interview done with Neal Kinsey after one of his speaches at Acres USA. He hasn�t got a clue. The Albrecht Model today is recognized by all major consultants in Eco Agriculture not only in the States but also in Australia and in other 25 countries. I have started using 3 years ago and I can tell you the difference in my soils are day and night. I am now able to harvest record breaking crops after twenty years of hard working. The Albrecht Model was what made that possible and is what made the difference. I feel sad because today I have just finished writting an article about the Albrecht Model in portuguese and in march I will teach an intensive a course on Albrecht Model for 40 agronomists in Brazil who are eagerly waiting and asking me to do so. I was nearly forced to teach this course. I had no choice so is the interest in his ideas today in this country. Eco Agriculture stands in several shoulders and one of the shoulders is certainly William A Albrecht, PhD shoulder. Nothing more upsetting, disgusting, biased and certainly incorrectly than this article.
For your information > Before I was thinking about subscribing this magazine. Not anymore after I have read such a bunch of crap like magnesium being a monovalent cation. I have a recommendation to Mr Walter Goldstein : Go back to scholl ( elementary) and then go back to college and try to learn a little bit more chemistry.If you can do like I did and go to a first class University and learn a little bit more of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Plant Physiology, Soil Science, etc.. and then and only then try to read The Albrecht Papers. It takes more than the knowledge that you have to try to stain Dr Albrecht�s reputation. Jose
