Are you suggesting that this ?mix? was brewed similar to compost tea and th=
at the indications given at the conference showed fungal control, similar t=
o a fungicide, when this mix was applied to infected plants? Is this purpo=
rted control documented with follow-up tests or was this just an anomoly?
Ted Peterson
EW/SOE
----- Original Message -----
From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Re:pretty close to compost tea!
This is in reference to the article from the Am. Phytopath meeting where =
Fusarium blight was reduced by spraying the mix of bacterial species.
I find it a pretty low that US tax-payer funded researchers that the peop=
le of the USA pay to do research can patent what we are paying them to work=
on.
And what are they patenting? A mix of 18 species of bacteria? Did they =
actually invent these bacteria? If I have that combination of 18 bacteria =
in my back-yard, do I have to now pay these people for the privledge of hav=
ing "their bacterial mix" in my property?
And where did they get the mix of microbes from in the first place?
And if they are actually working for you and I as tax-payers, why aren't =
we, the people of the US, given the payments generated from the patents? =
Am I just missing something here, or is this whole patenting life thing j=
ust beyond nonsensical?
Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
Soil Foodweb Inc., Oosterbeck, The Netherlands
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa
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