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| A few years ago I was teasing a first cousin who worked in a big hardware store selling yard fertilizer among other things and at the time, she was president of the local chapter of Sierra Club. She told me the rate on the sack would work out to about what we put down for corn, not more, but not worked in. And then there is that "more is better" syndrome, and probably worse than that one sack covered twice as much area as the yard so it all got put on in one pass because it lumped in the opened sack when they tried to keep it. Or they didn't want the kids or cats to get into it in the sack.
That's surely a major factor, but I believe sewage plant effluent, and chemical plant effluent are as significant. Lots of chemical plants live along the banks of the Mississippi in Louisiana for three reasons, as I see them. Water for process, water for cooling, and a place to dump unwanted products without it passing through any controls.
Gerald J. | |
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Seed corn genetics heading in the right direction ?
