--On 4 September 2007 18:41:18 -0500 CWFugitt <c_wa...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Chemical fertilize used properly in the right place is no threat to man kind or anything else. All fertilize is Chemical, no two ways about it. So, call a Spade a Spade.
Sort of true, so far as the quality of food goes. However, the practice of tearing up mines for fertilizer is a problem. Also soil stability when relying on purely mineral fertilizers. Also, for animal based fertilizers, the problem of the residues of their diet and medicines exist.
You mentioned chelates and I think, bio-availability. That is the art, and little known about, even by the most advanced scientists. Certainly, physically, a good 'organiclly' chelated soil retains the minerals better, and this is a factor in the realease by microbial activity and availability to plants. Also, soils do contain rock, and third is available to plants at the root fibres by etching, which in turn depends upon root growth, plant species, companion plants, microclimate, and soil conditions overall.
Physically, the structure of a good soil is dependent upon the way it is worked in addition to the organic material present, the plants growing, and includes means of tillage, machinery etc.
So, in conclusion, I would say that the factors of a good organic soil are considerable, a good soil take many years to establish, and most people do not work or have access to one. Perhaps some small ox-plowed biodynamic farms that have been in existence for more than twenty years and kept well.
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