>I have just been informed by one of the AP disciples that the group puts >down well in excess of 200,000 horns of 500 each year. You can do the sums >on that lot. He must have some big operators out there somewhere! It seems >pretty much a secret society deal with AP in total control ( he also OWNS >the Demeter trade mark for all of Australia) Our BDFGAA (Cheryl Kemp) has >0ver 600 members - predominantly horticulture and viticulture but gaining >numbers of broadacre farmers - wheat , sheep and cattle so you would >probably be able to substantiate the 2 million ??
Thanks for reporting this, Lloyd. Unfortunately, all I can infer from this information is that A.P's group buries 200,000 500 horns each year. Inferring any thing else from that would be a reach. I am interested in hearing how many acres Chery's group has under BD management. >Incidentally the informant above says he had three or four wonderful years >then a gradual decline of productivity and has now (after about 8 years) hit >the wall, hay cuts down to almost nothing, poor animal health, no feed so >the cattle are away on someone else's place, soil colour and structure gone, >its not working anymore! We had some posts from Hugh Lovel on the list about >this last year ( or maybe further back ) >Hope this is of interest Lloyd Charles This, of course, seems like a failure of the overseers and not a condemnation of BD itself. I'd like to hear more about this. I believe Glenn used to talk about this also. Thanks again, Lloyd, -Allan
