From lhalprin@ucdavis.edu Wed May 4 19:47:08 1994 Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 13:02:12 -0700 From: lhalprin@ucdavis.edu To: "Joel P. Bach" , sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Re: Re: Interest in Commercial Composting The University of California Sustainable Agriculture (UC SAREP) published a $5, 40-page publication "Organic Soil Amendments and Fertilizers" in November 1992. It may not answer all the commercial inquiries you get re. composting, but it's very useful and is easy to read and understand (it also has good charts, tables and a few great photos.) The authors are David E. Chaney, UC SAREP annual cropping systems analyst (dechaney@ucdavis.edu); Laurie E. Drinkwater, formerly a systems ecologist at the UC Davis Dept. of Vegetable Crops now at Rodale Research Institute; and Stuart Pettygrove, soils specialist in the Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis. To order, contact: ANR Publications University of California 6701 San Pablo Ave. Oakland, CA 94608-1239 Phone: 510-642-2431 FAX: 510-643-5470 Payment must accompany order. Price includes postage, handling, sales tax. Please make check or money order payble to UC Regents. You may order by phone or FAX using MasterCard or VISA. > I have answered numerous requests for information on composting > (mostly commercial type inquiries). > > However, this is not my particular area of expertise. > > Could any of you give me relevant information and/or internet addresses > for folks working in these areas? I'm wanting to put together a package > of information and mostly more and better contacts for those writing and > calling me. > > Thanks for your help in advance! > > JPB > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Joel P. (JP) Bach (409) 845-0996 Voice > Range Ecology & Mgmt. (MS 2126) (409) 845-5579 RLEM Sec'y > and Agri-Economics (MS 2124) (409) 845-2336 AGEC Sec'y > Texas A&M University (409) 845-6430 FAX > College Station, Texas 77843 jpb@ag-eco.tamu.edu > > "First there was the grass - then the people" > "When there's no more grass, there'll be no more people" > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Lyra Halprin Senior Writer UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program Davis, CA 95616 (916) 752-8664 lhalprin@ucdavis.edu