----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:39
PM
Subject: Gauss readings of soil
Dear Allan,
I just got an E-mail from Lloyd Charles
concerning some soil samples that he took at our place during the last
workshop.
The technician who tested the soil could not
believe that the readings that he was getting started off at 3500 gauss and
just went up from there.
Anyone got any better soil out
there.
James
Hi James
Same
operator tells me there is some around Blackbutt in Queensland that tests
around 6000 , meanwhile the rest of us poor unfortunates have to battle with
our low to medium hundreds. I think the main message from your tests was that
the BD farmed soil was not appreciably different than the good readings
obtained in the native bush situation. If we can learn to use the productive
capacity of these good soils without reducing their energy levels we
are getting somewhere! I think I told the story a few times about
the guy in Northern NSW with 35 consecutive wheat crops on the one paddock -
zero fertiliser inputs - the last one at 45 bushels/acre and prime hard
grade.This was magnificent self mulching black soil and it took a real long
time to flatten the battery but they did it in the end - still good
country but they are wringing the last out of it with Anhydrous Ammonia and
Atrazine - Sad eh !
Cheers all
Lloyd Charles
