(grain, corn, whatever). Prior to World War II, the vast majority of American farms would meet today’s “organic” standards. The end of the war saw the conversion of our wartime nitrogen factories into synthetic...

-10-10) . This will help the seedings to develope healthy root system. When the plant is about 5~6 " tall, side dress with Nitrogen rich fertilizer such as Blood Meal (13-0-0). I also found that rotating crop is important to...

organic?" The farmer responded, "Not totally – I use a nonorganic fertilizer higher in nitrogen on the chile plants..." The lady acted like it was poison, snubbed the farmer and walked away... WTF – give me a break...

fertilizer is not limited to manure – all sorts of composts and different uses of non-grain legumes also count. And crop management is key in maintaining soil organic matter (soil carbon), a key to both organic and “inorganic”...

them with slow-release nitrogenrich fertilizers (blood meal and/or chicken manure-based)

and comments- you bet. BTW what do you do? Is your industry perfect? Does it make a profit? and 3) your statement about cheap corn is so off the beam. Do you know who much a bag of corn seed costs? How much a ton of fertilizer...

-tail deer, rabbits and chipmunks. Asparagus (from seed) because it will take 3 years until harvest. We are also reviving some ancient Macintosh and Russet apple trees (the land was once an orchard). We have pruned back into...

Yes definately change the water before you add new nutes. It is the nitrogen salts and others that build up from the continuous addition of nutes. Good Luck

for this purpose.same Coffee grounds are nitrogenous; when mixed with wood ashes and small bones will make a fairly complete fertilizer if left over a season. I have done this once. It did seem to work. You mix this in a garbage...

, then the fields out of organic production so that more can be added. These seems like more serious contamination than anything that could happen at a retail outlet. Also, the nitrogen sources for grain production may source...

The lowly but amazing sea cucumber removes detritus from the ocean floor, thereby reducing the buildup of nitrogenous wastes that ultimately are detrimental to healthy reefs. If it had big floppy ears or a fuzzy face and a cute...

to reduce organics and nitrogen output into the streams, just like they are trying to do downstream from chicken farms, but hey somehow Tyson-Conagra doesn’t want to raise the price of chicken by incorporating such...

. Zemelman (2002). “Bacterial resistance to oxytetracycline in Chilean salmon farming.” Aquaculture 212: 31-47. Molver, J., A. Stigebrandt, et al. (1988). On the excretion of nitrogen and phosphorus from salmon....