22 Billion Slaves?
Here are some interesting facts I picked up from the piece.
1.The energy supply we currently depend on from fossil fuels is the equivalent of 22 billion slaves working around the clock. My, are we privileged!
2.The average age of farmers in the UK is 60.
3.We are losing the technology needed to farm manually (as opposed to using mechanized tractors, bailers and such).
4.Plowing the soil destroys it by killing the living things within it that sustain its fertility. Mechanized farming has accelerated this process.
5.Permaculture gardening in a wooded area can produce enough food for 10 people in just one acre, more than with modern farming methods. Also, it requires small amounts of work.
6.Cereal farming will not be sustainable. But it can be replaced with nuts, such as hazelnuts, which are nutritionally similar to rice.
Sunday 20 December 2009
Customer feedback
Hi Ian, Ten out of ten for your site. I am very pleased to see such a profesional and informative web site. Congratulation, This will go a long way in informing farmers and the general public on hydroponic fodder farming and and the manufactures of containers and static sheds. witch I for one would would like to promote, as the better option over shipping containers. For one, cost of a shed need not bee any more expensive than a container, but offer more in out put and be of a better qualety. I will like to keep you informed in the near future on what I am working on at the moment with an over seas custermer. All the best for now, keep up the good work, and will talk soon.
Saturday 19 December 2009
Veterinary Articles
Aspergillus clavatus tremorgenic neurotoxicosis in cattle fed sprouted grains.
McKenzie RA, Kelly MA, Shivas RG, Gibson JA, Cook PJ, Widderick K, Guilfoyle AF.
Aust Vet J. 2004 Oct;82(10):635-8
Link to article
Beef and dairy cattle from four different herds in southern and central Queensland fed hydroponically-produced sprouted barley or wheat grain heavily infested with Aspergillus clavatus developed posterior ataxia with knuckling of fetlocks, muscular tremors and recumbency, but maintained appetite. A few animals variously had reduced milk production, hyperaesthesia, drooling of saliva, hypermetria of hind limbs or muscle spasms. Degeneration of large neurones was seen in the brain stem and spinal cord grey matter. The syndrome was consistent with A clavatus tremorgenic mycotoxicosis of ruminants. The cases are the earliest known to be associated with this fungus in Australia. They highlight a potential hazard of hydroponic fodder production systems, which appear to favour A clavatus growth on sprouted grain, exacerbated in some cases by equipment malfunctions that increase operating temperatures.
McKenzie RA, Kelly MA, Shivas RG, Gibson JA, Cook PJ, Widderick K, Guilfoyle AF.
Aust Vet J. 2004 Oct;82(10):635-8
Link to article
Beef and dairy cattle from four different herds in southern and central Queensland fed hydroponically-produced sprouted barley or wheat grain heavily infested with Aspergillus clavatus developed posterior ataxia with knuckling of fetlocks, muscular tremors and recumbency, but maintained appetite. A few animals variously had reduced milk production, hyperaesthesia, drooling of saliva, hypermetria of hind limbs or muscle spasms. Degeneration of large neurones was seen in the brain stem and spinal cord grey matter. The syndrome was consistent with A clavatus tremorgenic mycotoxicosis of ruminants. The cases are the earliest known to be associated with this fungus in Australia. They highlight a potential hazard of hydroponic fodder production systems, which appear to favour A clavatus growth on sprouted grain, exacerbated in some cases by equipment malfunctions that increase operating temperatures.
Friday 18 December 2009
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