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To: elmatador who wrote (448)9/13/2005 12:27:12 PM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (2) of 219231
 
Elmatador Re: "proof" You need to study a little basic agronomy, there is lots of online information. Any US agriculture college posts a bunch of material online. Go and look it up. Green plants require nutrients, its just basic plant science, and the main ones are nitrogen, phosphate and potash. Some plants, like soybeans are legumes and have nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their root nodules and so they don't require nitrogen fertilizer, but even legumes require phosphate and potash. But corn AND sugar cane are in the grass family and require lots of nitrogen.

I grew up on a farm, a damn big very modern farm, and was plowing fields from age twelve. And I have a whole bunch of technical bulletins from the USDA and various state agriculture departments in my library. Printed material.

A plant like sugar cane requires nitrogen to live, just like you require oxygen. It is just basic agronomy. Go look it up.

But the main problem is where to get the nitrogen. A green plant must have nitrogen in a water soluble form (various salts of nitrogen) and the only way we can produce these nitrogen salts commercially is from fossil fuel, mainly natural gas. And that is the problem.
Slagle
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