Comments on: Better Dirt Key To Solving Food Crisis

World's Soil Getting Worse, Especially In Sub-Saharan Africa, Scientists Warn

[walkshe]

As silly as it might sound, the "old timers" had the right idea. Organic is the best and doesn''t have to be expensive. I raise rabbits and my neighbors hit my door early spring to get bags of my "pelleted gold" for their gardens. Studies have shown that by using organic fertilizers, some plant maladies are actually stopped by organics rather than man-made fertilizers and/or pesticides. Rabbit manure is one of the best - doesn''t have to be composted - won''t burn plants and is very easy to spread (handy pelleted form). Why do the governments have to make everything so hard. France has some of the largest rabbitires in the world. Why not chip in and send them some bunny poo. Again, I know it sounds silly, but do some research on it. Sometimes, the old ways were best.

[bot5plus]

Let throw Bushit and Cheneyko from the white-shiiit-house into that mix cause they are not worth a shiiit (fertilizer) and full of crapppp (more fertilizer).
Let''s also throw the battlin jackarrssee whole Dumbocratit candidates Osomma yo Mamma and the ridiculous turrd of a women (man is her asssse getting bigger by the day) Hilbillary Clintit.
Ya know, if all the politicians in our Federal and State governments where wiped from the face of the planet (sort of like a political potato blight, no one would notice.

[questionnews]

I guess this will alter the meaning of the term "Dirt Cheap"

[hbevis]

The soil can be returned to full production if people know how. The trouble is that most of the world does not know how. If we started right now it would take several years to bring production up. But with the cost of fertilizer so high a lot of farmers are going to use less fertilizer and that is going to make the soil worse, not better.

If the United States had stayed on course with the Alcohol about 30 or 35 years ago we would have had most of the problem solved by now.

There has been a lot of research done on the making fuel from water. By breaking it down into Oxygen and Hydrogen and then using it as the fuel to power all kinds of engines. But again this takes time.

So, in the mean time we are letting the Arab Countries rob us blind. With no solution in sight. From the data I have seen, the corn that is used to make Alcohol is better for Livestock that is was before it is used to make the Alcohol. Please know what you are talking about. Research your topic then make a learned judgment. And write what you please then.

[rf35]

Actually, bull poop could help.

[rf35]

Overworked dirt. Not something that can be fixed in the long run. The Earth''s population is unsustainable. That''s what it all comes down to. Too many people having way too many babies. The planet is beginning to revolt. Nature''s immune system is kicking in. Humans WILL be brought into sustainable balance. The question is: will we do it willingly by having fewer children to consume resources, or maintain current practices resulting in massive famine, disease, and slow, lingering death.