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Re: QUESTION: Need information on
growing cotton organically.
Will Allen of the Sustainable Cotton Project of the National Organic Cotton
Association can tell you most of what you need to know. His number is
209/862-0860
Dave Campbell
> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 21:37:10 -0500 (EST) > From: "Lawrence
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Dave Campbell
UC SAREP
dccampbell@ucdavis.edu
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To: Larry London <london@sunSITE.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Compost spores and health.
In article <2mkve2$khr@bigblue.oit.unc.edu> london@sunSITE.unc.edu (Larry London) writes:
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>From: london@sunSITE.unc.edu (Larry London)
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>>From m1dorrin@attmail.com Mon Mar 21 14:58:13 1994
>Date: 21 Mar 94 18:06:20 GMT
>From: Mike Dorrington <m1dorrin@attmail.com>
>To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
>Subject: compost spores & health
>Can anyone answer below (forwarded) message?
>>We are looking for information on the possible health
>>effects of a mold spore-- Aspergillus fumigatus-- that is
>>associated with composting operations and can also be found
>>in the air and in buildings. A study by the New York state
>>Dept. of Health came out last week with information
>>suggesting that it was not the cause of respiratory or other
>>health problems around an Islip Long Island composting
>>facility. At the same time the study said composting
>>facilities should not be located near hospitals, in
>>particular, medical facilities with bone marrow transplant
>>operations. If you have any information on this subject,
>>please send me an e-mail message. Thanks! -- David Hess,
>>Executive Director, Pennsylvania Senate Environmental
>>Resources & Energy Committee.
The Composting Council should be able to provide
information on A. fumigatus & Composting.
The Composting Council
114 S. Pitt St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703/739-2401
Fax: 703/739-2407
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 23:19:33 +0000
Subject: Zendic Farm
[text deleted]
....... appears to be a movement based around a form of sustainable
agriculture, but involving an entire (peaceful) revolutionary lifestyle -
they have farms in California & Texas and are in the process of expanding.
i'd highly recommend the magazine based on the issue i've seen -
a couple of addresses:
Zendic Farm Arts Foundation Cary Roberts
Star Route 16C-3 c/o Zendic Farm HQ
Bastrop TX 78602 PO Box 1146
512-321-0712 / 321-0845 Boulevard CA 92005
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:58:46 -0600
Subject: Re: Zendic Farm
Their phone number is 512-321-0845 or -0712.
Their snail mail address is:
Zendik Farm Ecolibrium Foundation
Star Route 16C3
Bastrop, TX 78602.
Article 1070 of alt.sustainable.agriculture:
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From: ae446@Freenet.carleton.ca (Nigel Allen)
Subject: American Farmland Trust -- op-ed column
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Here is an op ed column from American Farmland Trust.
I downloaded it from the PR On-Line BBS in Maryland at 410-363-0834.
American Farmland Trust -- Op Ed Column
To: Editorial Page Editors
Contact: Gary Kozel of American Farmland Trust, 202-659-5170
Editors:
The following is submitted for your review as a guest editorial
or op ed column.
by Ralph B. Grossi
President
American Farmland Trust
The USDA currently estimates that most of the crops on the 6
to 8 million acres of farmland battered by the Midwestern
floods will be lost this year. That no doubt will prove
devastating to the farmers whose livelihoods so greatly depend on
the saturated soils.
As one who has endured his share of weather-related calamities,
I empathize with the plight of my fellow farmers. But I also know
that like farmers everywhere, those in the Midwest are a resolute
lot. Unfortunately, some may go out of business, but given the
inherent agricultural productivity of the bottomlands and the
slight chance that such serious flooding will ever occur again in
their lifetimes, most will return to their farms to produce for
another day.
The damages farmers have suffered from the flooding of crops and
erosion of topsoil serve as vivid reminders of the vulnerability of
the agricultural resource base with which we have been blessed. It
makes it even clearer why we must increase our resolve to protect
our best land for food production.
I am referring to the highly productive farmland around the
nation's growing metropolitan areas. According to USDA estimates,
more than 2 million acres of productive farmland is being
permanently converted to nonagricultural uses each year, much of it
the result of sprawling, poorly planned growth patterns on the
urban edge.
The ultimate cost of this displacement could be significant.
Urbanedge farmland now generates 56 percent of gross U.S.
agricultural sales. It also accounts for 86 percent of the
country's fruit, nut and vegetable crops, nearly 80 percent of its
dairy production and 45 percent of its meat and poultry. Measured
on a dollars per acre basis, farmland in urban-influenced counties
is more than two and one-half times as productive as other U.S.
farmland.
Urban sprawl is wasteful, expensive and unnecessary. If it is
allowed to go unchecked, the nation will lose some of its best and
most productive agricultural capacity. We will increasingly come
to rely on foreign countries for fruits, vegetables and other
commodities, which will weaken the one industry where we still have
a clear advantage. Agriculture will be forced onto marginal land
that requires more fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation and is
more expensive to farm. And scenic countryside and precious
wildlife habitat will be lost.
At American Farmland Trust, we believe we must launch a national
program to protect our urban edge agricultural resources. USDA in
consultation with states and localities must identify and designate
strategic agricultural reserve areas where the key agricultural
resources most threatened by rapid urban growth are protected.
All levels of government must work together to prevent the
onslaught of urban sprawl in the reserves and give farmers the
encouragement, incentive and technical assistance they need to
commit the land to long-term productive use by making their farms
more profitable and development-resistant.
The federal government must also integrate the protection of
strategic farmland with other agricultural resource concerns such
as soil conservation and water quality and reinforce state and
local farmland protection efforts by fully implementing current
farmland protection laws.
States should adopt policies to protect strategic farmland and
strengthen their right-to-farm laws. Local governments must
provide zones for the long-term protection of strategic agriculture
and develop growth management programs that avoid sprawl and
minimize farmland annexations. State and local governments without
farmland protection programs should establish them and direct
development to areas where it can be more efficiently served by
existing infrastructure.
Farmers in and around America's great metropolitan areas are in
trouble. Literally and figuratively, they are doing business on
the edge. As a nation we must begin to recognize the strategic
value as well as the vulnerability of our urban-edge agricultural
land and take steps to protect it. Otherwise, we one day will
simply lose it.
------
Ralph E. Grossi, a Northern California farmer, is president of
American Farmland Trust, a Washington-based farmland conservation
group working to stop the loss of productive farmland and to
promote farming practices that will lead to a healthy environment.
Last week at a press conference in Washington, AFT issued a report
on farming on the urban edge of America.
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Nigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ae446@freenet.carleton.ca