Seed and feed meals in Central FL
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Comments (2)Very nice! I absolutely love that you used old lumber and scraps to build all that. My husband thinks I'm crazy - but I just refuse to go out and BUY stuff that you can hunt around and find free. Can't afford it anyway! It's amazing what you notice when you start looking around at the stuff that people have stacked up behind their homes and are tickled to death when you offer to take it off their hands! Happy gardening!!...See MoreCan't find corn meal
Comments (2)A suitable alternative to corn meal is cracked corn. It has the same properties as meal but is much coarser. A few corn shoots may come up and the birds will have a better chance at eating some. It is usually available at farm animal feed stores pretty cheap ($10 to $20 for 50 lbs.) Here is a link that might be useful: Using Cornmeal as an Organic Fungicide...See Moregmo cottonseed meal
Comments (16)Hayne, you need to get an update to that report to reflect the real world scenario. These sheep & goats in India last summer tell a differnt story. ** Continuing Controversy in India over Mass Death of Sheep from Eating GE Cotton * BT cotton in yet another controversy By Uma Sudhir NDTV, June 1, 2006 Straight to the Source (Hyderabad): There is yet another controversy linked to the genetically modified Bt cotton plant and this time it is the alarming reports of sheep and goat taking ill, even dying after grazing on leftover Bt cotton fields. This is what farmers and shepherds in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh are saying. The central government has reportedly ordered independent toxicology tests on Bt cotton leaves to ascertain the facts. "They just became very dull and lifeless and died," said Pendala Venkatamma describing what happened to her sheep. Earlier this year in February-March several villages in Warangal reported that sheep and goats were dying in unusually high numbers from a disease they did not recognise. The only clue they had was that the animals grazed continuously on fields where Bt cotton had been grown. "They were grazing on Bollguard cotton. In 4-5 days, they became dull, their stomach swelled up and they died," said Gantaiah, Shepherd. Fact finding team An independent fact-finding team that surveyed three random villages said animals that fed continuously on Bt cotton for up to a week became listless with erosive lesions in the mouth, nasal discharge and blackish diarrhea. The mortality was as high as 25 per cent against the usual 5-10 per cent for this season. "They took one or two sheep from the dead animals. Doctors conducted post-mortem but could not find viral, bacterial or fungal problem with that," said Ramprasad, scientist, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture. In Warangal, about 11 hectares was on cotton this year and 20 per cent of that officially on Bt cotton. But the unofficial figure puts that at upto 50 per cent. In January this year, following rains and some irrigation, there was fresh foliage but few bolls, so the fields were let out for grazing. "Animals that have been grazing on non-Bt cotton also, shepherds are reporting that on such fields even if they grazed for 15 days, there was no problem reported. Whereas on Bt cotton, with 3-4 successive days of grazing, they started showing symptoms," said Kavita Kurungati, Researcher. When contacted, Monsanto, which has released Bt cotton commercially in India, said safety studies on goats, cows, buffaloes, chicken and fish have been conducted as part of the regulatory process to get Bollgard approved. "We conducted goat-feeding stury with Bt cotton seed and found it to be safe," said Dr Vishwanathan, Industrial Toxicology Research Center, Lucknow. Critics point out that there was no bio safety study on Bt cotton leaves, which is consumed by cattle during open grazing. But Monsanto says Bt protein is present in miniscule amounts in cotton leaves and a goat will have to eat over 24 tonnes of old leaves to reach the upper safe limit of 4300 mg/kg body weight of Cry 1Ac toxin present in the Bt plant. The company says the deaths could have been due to pesticide residues. Inquiry ordered The state government has ordered an investigation by the animal husbandry department. "We have immediately alerted animal husbandry dept to give us the details of villages where this has happened and what are their findings regarding this. We are certainly going to pursue this further with the research institutes genetic research institutes, which can analyse the whole thing and yes, it is a cause of concern," said Poonam Malakondaiah, Agriculture Commissioner, Andhra Pradesh. Only a detailed scientific investigation may be able to establish whether at all there is a link between Bt cotton and the mortality in sheep and goat. Even otherwise it would be wise to go for much more comprehensive bio safety testing not just for Bt cotton but the whole range of genetically modified food crops that may soon be part of commercial Indian agriculture. ** (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_646.cfm) This report about biotech risk assessment came out last week. This seems to be the standard procedure for industry assessment of studies whose results are different from what industry would like to have us believe. ** * GM Potatoes are "unfit for human consumption" GM Free Cymru, Feb 16, 2007 A secret feeding study of Monsanto GM potatoes, conducted in 1998 by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and suppressed for 8 years, showed that the potatoes did considerable damage to the organs of the rats in the study (1) (2). In comparison the rats in the "control groups" which were fed on normal potatoes or on a non-potato diet were healthier, and had much less organ and tissue damage. This research, fully supported by Monsanto through the provision of the GM potatoes, was conducted at approximately the same time as Arpad Pusztai's research in the Rowett Institute. **...See Morebulk corn meal South Jersey???
Comments (7)Speaking of feed dealers, can anyone recommend any bulk meal dealers in North or Central Jersey? We're in Hudson County with nary a feed dealer anywhere around -- ask the staffers in Lowe's or HD and they look at you like you're nuts. We're looking for alfalfa, kelp, fish and cottonseed meals, primarily. Kathy...See Morewest_texas_peg
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