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To: Threshold who wrote (6822)	4/24/2011 8:12:09 PM
From: kidl	4 Recommendations Respond to of 16592

Just one more great example amongst many of how much information we can derive from a forum like this. Thank you and an equal thanks to many others. Every point of view helps to remove part of the cobwebs. I often wonder why companies take so little advantage. I guess FREE opinions can't rival paid opinions ...

To: Threshold who wrote (6822)	4/24/2011 11:42:53 PM
From: marcos	1 Recommendation Respond to of 16592

Another great post T, good stuff ... one possibility i was wondering about, was if the whole field including control plot had K sufficient for a carrot crop in the first place, especially with carrots not being particularly woody [isn't it the woody bits as in stalks bark skins etc that most need K?.. plus for overall vigour, yes], then the whole thing being quite inconclusive makes sense ... you'd think they'd test the soil and make sure to find some K-deficient in the first place, but we don't know this Sekita, and it looks like they're not parting with any of the fine detail in re the test, they don't even say if carrot quantity and quality met normal expectations for a crop, or what Embrapa the federal ag dept is famous for doing a lot of fine research, be nice to see them test thermofert ... thorough job is in order, test everything before during and after crop Lots of opinion on the thread last few days, i agree with much of it, two or three things i disagree with strongly ... there, sure told those folks off, serve em right Yes the release was poorly written, might be only poor translation but looks like poorly thought as well This doesn't excuse a stupid market reaction though ... that was wild panic dumping, people got spooked, means they didn't understand the concept in the first place ... the great advantage of thermofert is in its endurance, there's no way to test this on one crop of carrots, you'd have to plant three or four minimum in quick rotation for a test, other crops likely to be more useful for the purpose ... i don't see how it can fail to work, fritted ferts and amendments been used elsewhere for decades, of course they have to get particle size and degree of glassification right, maybe they didn't this time, release pretty much says so, well that's an easy thing to fix imho Anyway i didn't sell any even after it started bouncing, and don't intend to ... might add a few on any more dumpolas, though that's hard as it's already largest position and outsize ... likely do some head-shaking at my fellow man, more than normal maybe even

To: Threshold who wrote (6822)	4/25/2011 4:41:59 AM
From: GeoDude	Respond to of 16592

I think this excerpt from a march 22 2010 PR is appropriate: "Sekita plans to test ThermoPotash in real world conditions for use with garlic, carrots, corn, soybeans, wheat and grazing grass for dairy cattle. Sekita is a leading Brazilian carrot, garlic and milk producer. Its farms are located less than 10km from the Cerrado Verde Project. This region accounts for nearly one third of Brazil’s carrot production. Carrot plantation requires up to four times more potash per hectare per year than crops like soybeans or corn. Sekita already uses ThermoPhosphate, a slow release highly efficient phosphate fertilizer that share’s many of the characteristics and much of the production process of Amazon’s proposed ThermoPotash. Sekita hopes to utilize the slow release characteristics of ThermoPotash to provide a more sustainable and more efficient source of potash." The fact that the carrot test was a big blank just suggests that the test was not set up properly and too many outside variables played with it especially when carrots need 4 times more potash than other crops ... So I will just ignore the carrot tests and worry that all tests were improperly set up ...