Is this a radionics or a biodynamic discussion group???
Hi Steve (and Allan)
Last saturday I travelled an hour and a half west of here to install a field
broadcaster on a sheep farm, its 13 inch rainfall country and somewhere over
60,000acres, We set up on some rolling sandhill country that has been part
cleared of timber, but still has lots of stumps and fallen trees plus a lot
of rough patches where rabbitt warrens have been ripped over the years, very
hazardous country to drive around any time there is some grass cover, and
the only practical way you could spray it is by plane. We found a nice
energy intersection on a rise in the middle of the area, put up our
broadcaster, loaded up with all the BD preps in their little vials, added a
couple of potentised reagents for calcium and phosphorus, and a weed pepper,
now the only catch is we are probably hoping for a miracle to happen. The
people are trying to figure something that will give them some respite from
infestations of puncture vine that have rendered some of this country off
limits to sheep and only usable part time for cattle, its a huge problem,
and probably has taken 60 years or more to slowly progress to the stage its
at now, rotational grazing management has not been able to make any gains
weed wise. This is low rainfall, low carrying capacity land, probably would
sell less than a hundred Au dollars per acre. As time progresses we will
probably get some conventional preps sprayed around fire breaks and
fencelines to reinforce the program but that pipe went up nice and was a far
more pleasant and spiritual experience than trying to bash around that same
patch of land with a sprayrig. We are broadcasting around 2500 to 3000 acres
with it, no diesel fumes, no broken gear, minimal expense, and I know that
it will do more for that piece of land than a poorly executed prep spraying
program would. Getting the proper preps out good enough on these extended
areas of low value country is always going to be a problem because of cost
if for no other reason. To get a better result than the field broadcaster
you'd need to treat at least twice the first year with 500/501- thats most
of twenty bucks an acre up front - even half of that would be unsustainable
long term.
Heck I'm not trying to convert you guys to radionics you have no need of
it - just see our side of the story - and try to appreciate why we (or some
of us) are so interested in these other ways of doing things.
Cheers
Lloyd Charles
As far as I am concerned I do not care for any of these scientific
evaluations until the preparations have been used for two years...sstorch
ps steve I agree with this, we can too easily jump to conclusions or make
outlandish claims - a trap we all fall into from time to time
