Re: Fw: BdMax Bird Scare Results

Dear Glen, Looks like you have hit the jackpot with this one. Do you have any explanations or theories as to why BD preps would keep birds out of fully ripe fruit. Trials by Hedley and Hedley P/L on Bird Control in Grapes in the Mudgee area indicate that many growers even although they know tha

Re: Fw: BdMax Bird Scare Results

Do you have any explanations or theories as to why BD preps would keep birds out of fully ripe fruit.   Yes, and that this is how I designed it in 1990 and that it worked first time.   I dont think that we really need to twist reality.   I am looking forward to the day that materialistic sc

Re: Can error be turned to advantage?

Dear Lloyd, Even although it appears from the purist philosophical base of dyed in the wool BD farmers, that there has been a catastrophy from the use of Superphosphate in the comparative trials of the TSR at Dalgetty I feel that what has happened opens the scope of the trials. It must be remem

Re: Can error be turned to advantage?

Hi James Thanks for your note. >Even although it appears  --- that there has been a catastrophy from the use of Superphosphate in the comparative trials of >the TSR at Dalgetty I feel that what has happened opens the scope of the trials. It must be remembered that this is a long >term trial.

Re: Can error be turned to advantage?

Thanks for your very positive comments, Lloyd. I would have responded to your 12 June post but it didn't reach me until this evening! The trial is in its 2nd year now and I have about a thousand digital photos of it. As yet I don't know the full extent of the 'inadvertency', I hope to by tomorr

Terminology as Medium as Message: GE/GM/GR/GP

Dear Allan, Steve, Peter (All), Thank you for your end-May replies (below) to my question on when to use the term genetically "engineered" and when "modified". I am in accord that, rather than those two rather value-neutral terms, the ones you suggested -- "hacked", "prostituted", "raped" and "

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GE "Foods" and Basic Human Rights: H.R. 252 coming to a vote Tuesday

Dear Christy, All, Thank you for your "page-turning" summary of the Biodevistation7 conference in the 6/8 digest (and at http://www.theruralcenter.org/ ). I am forwarding it to one of my MCS lists, where a recent posting gave the URL for a website where one click can send an email to one's con

Re: Terminology as Medium as Message: GE/GM/GR/GP

- Original Message - From: "Peace Beours" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:55 AM Subject: Terminology as Medium as Message: GE/GM/GR/GP > > Dear Allan, Steve, Peter (All), > > Thank you for your end-May replies (below) to my question on when to us

Re: Can Error be turned to Advantage?

Thank you Roger. Gil Roger Pye wrote: Gil Robertson wrote: May I ask why superphosphate was applied to the reveg, assuming it is native veg, as most do not handle super at all well. ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or c

Re: Can Error be turned to Advantage?

Hi Roger, Maybe a bit of lime, perhaps twice as much as the super added. One would need to consider what effect this would have in relation to other plots in the comparison and what the target designation of the land is to be at the conclusion of the trial. either way the experience