Dear Michelle
Thanks for coming on the list with this post - We farm 2300
acres in southern Australia and are, like you, in the middle of trying to
convert away from chemicals. Ours is only a small scale operation in
commercial dollar terms, but we crop 1000 acres of dryland cereals, and
getting things done properly is a major hurdle to the implementation of
Biodynamics.
>There isn't much room for mistakes economically any more. Is there a
> place for bd concepts in larger scale agriculture?? or do those two
concepts
> totally oppose one another?
I am not usually one for quoting "Steiner said" but he did say " the
BENEFITS of the biodynamic preparations should be made available as quickly
as possible to the largest possible areas of the entire earth" - to me the
major benefits are the regenerative forces contained in the preps and I
choose to put those forces out over my land with a field broadcaster - at
least that gets done - I think its more effective than the minimal amount of
"proper" spraying required (in this country anyhow) for bd certification. -
If you are dedicated and organised enough to do the sort of spraying program
that Steve Storch talks about on this list, and get it done on extended
acreage, thats a different story.
> See, here again confusion reigns. I agree with
> all of you that our earth desperately needs healing. Is it possible to
use
> bd on larger operations? I am thinking of use of preps in our compost tea
> brewing process. We made and put on about 90000 gallons of tea this past
> summer. I feel it could be a wonderful way to address larger operations.
> Not that I feel large operations are necessarily the correct approach, but
> to face the facts, that is what is going on in our world. And if there is
a
> way to bring even a fraction of those folks towards healing the soil
instead
> of destroying it, then there has to be someone to help show them that it
can
> work
I would be really interested in what you have done along the way as far as
conversion goes - what results you got from the compost teas etc
Cheers - and keep posting
Lloyd Charles
