[compost_tea] Standard methods:WAS:Re: CT and soiless media

From: dkemnitz2000 <dkemnitz2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:14:44 -0000


I'm adding one word below to further clarify my point regarding ACT
testing and standard methods. Dennis.





--- In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "dkemnitz2000"
<dkemnitz2000_at_y...> wrote:
>
> ---Correct me if I'm wrong BUT it seems to me the land grant
> university taught me of the need for standard methods of testing
> whether it be water and wastewater, dairy products, analytical
> chemistry or simply cereal chemistry. I'm sure there are others
too.
> As in engineering. So why not here in testing  aerated compost
tea?
> There is the USP (united states Pharmacopia) for methods of
testing 
> whatever is that book. And BAM whatever that acronym exactly
stands
> for!! We'll never get anywhere with ACT

<><><<<<> please insert "TESTING" . Dennis



without standard methods of
> testing,IMO. Field trials can be good,IMO but those "scientists"
> want testing so get standard methods approved and post them.
ICTC???
> is this your job?
> Dennis Kemnitz
>
>
>
>
>  In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, "dkemnitz2000"
<dkemnitz2000_at_y...>
> wrote:
> >
> > ---Elaine, Which lab tested Mark Highland  and Chandrappa
> Gangaiah's
> > ACT? How often,etc.? What standard methods were used? Dennis
> Kemnitz
> >
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> > \In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, soilfoodweb@a... wrote:
> > > 
> > >
> > > A graduate student that I work with, Mark Highland, is just
> > finishing up  his
> > > master's thesis, and it is clear from his work that standard
> > potting mix is 
> > > only barely equal to a properly made, GOOD, AEROBIC compost. 
> > > 
> > > What defines the good aerobic compost?  the presence of the
> > aerobic  BIOLOGY.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I will be at his thesis defense early next week, and look
> forward
> > to his 
> > > publications soon to come. 
> > > 
> > > Another graduate student at Kansas State University,
Chandrappa
> > Gangaiah, a 
> > > student with Ed Carey in Horticulture, has CLEARLY shown that
> > AERATED compost 
> > > tea is every bit as effective as major fungicides at
preventing
> > disease. 
> > > 
> > > So much for people who want to claim we haven't been doing
> > replicated 
> > > scientific studies.  Science takes time, and can't be forced
to
> > move  forward faster
> > > just because someone wants to gripe.   
> > > 
> > > Good work takes time. 
> > > 
> > >




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