The fellow I hired to do custom baling and wrapping this spring asked the same question. A local farmer friend who was visiting to discuss when we could work...
8/31/06 To: Health Editor, MSNBC: From: Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP Chief Science Advisor Rick North, Project Director Campaign For Safe Food Oregon Physicians...
File : NODPA check off form 1.9.06.doc Description : NODPA Check off form...
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Odairy@yahoogroups.com
Sep 1, 2006 3:16 pm
Join the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance to support the work of ODairy and organic family farmers. This list serve, website and newsletter are all...
Given the Walmart/China connection I suspect it will be just a matter of time before they market organic certified from there..imagine the standards work...
National Research Council guidelines will give you more info than you bargained for: http://newton.nap.edu/html/dairy_cattle/index.html Any good forage lab can...
... What are humates? Hi folks probably if I hunted back through the Odairy archives, there would be answers, but would someone be willing answer these...
Midwestern Bio-Ag 1 800 327 6012 have this product, works great, they could answer all her question in the bio vet divsion. ed ... From: Mary-Howell and...
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A. Fay Benson
afb3@...
Sep 2, 2006 1:55 pm
Hi Mary Howell, I thought I might take a whack at cyber diagnosis before Hue comes on. The only thing I know about humates are that they are important in soil ...
Thought you would be interested in this article from The Nation. One Thing to Do About Food: A Forum by Eric Schlosser, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Wendell...
Hi Mary Howell, From what I learned in grad school: humates are organic molecules that are extractable in strong acid or strong base. They have a high...
Hi Mary Howell, Bright red blood in watery diarrhea is a bad sign. Is there a fever? Is the calf off-feed? Is it dehydrated (sunk eyes)? This particular calf...
Not to take anything away from what Caron or Hue have posted, but hopefully to shed a little more light. Humates are another word for substances found in...
Thanks for the links, I downloaded and saved the Nutrient volume, 395 pages when combined as a single pdf. What standards are being used by Organic and...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2006/02/18/edreal18.xml&page=6 www.wewantrealfood.com/blog We want real food Britain's once fertile soil...
Dear List, Is there such a thing as a warm season perennial grass. I.e. something that likes to grow in hot, somewhat dry weather like July and August but...
Yes, there are warm season grasses--like switchgrass, big bluestem, and gama grass. I know that several years ago, there was a USDA grasslands specialist...
Hue, In your post you mentioned coccidia. We have 2 calves that I think are suspect for coccidiosis. I haven't sent in a fecal just going on past experience....
Organic Times magazine <http://www.naturalfoodsmerchandiser.com/ASP/organictimes.asp> The Natural Foods Merchandiser <http://www.naturalfoodsmerchandiser.com/>...
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charles taplin
VTHICK@...
Sep 3, 2006 4:16 pm
I guess this is the only way I know how to get the word out and I am sorry to bother the rest of you. The answer can be sent to me at vthick@... so...
Thank you Folks! This was a great set of posts to read. ________________________________ From: Odairy@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Brian Baker Sent: Sat...
Interesting about the big blue stem. When I was about to start a masters degree in soil science at UNH in 1986, one of the state conservationists took me out...
Dear List, I was talking to a sheep farmer the other day about organic v. conventional and some of the pros/cons of the NAIS that seems to be coming down the...
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eveandjohn@...
Sep 4, 2006 1:52 am
In a message dated 9/3/2006 12:17:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I am in Maine, there are many organic stores and farms here...google and find the type of...
... Re: [Odairy] BSE v. Scrapie v. CWD Mark you really need to read some of Mark Purdeys scientific articles which are well researched, based on work with Dr....
Here is an article I wrote for our local newspaper last winter. Much of the information is very basic - but I thought it might help some on this list who are...
