Aquaponics Digest - Wed 03/18/98
Message 1: Have you tried Spray 'n Grow?
from Dave Roberts
Message 2: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
from donald trotter
Message 3: ICIBS Programme April-June 1998
from Jacky Foo
Message 4: unsubscribe
from "J. A. Chandler"
Message 5: Re: Solviva Greenhouse
from Gale
Message 6: unsubscribe
from "J. A. Chandler"
Message 7: Help with Hydroponics
from S & S Aqua Farm
Message 8: G.E. back issues, Solviva
from Amy Knutson
Message 9: Re: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
from "Jim S"
Message 10: Re: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
from Linda Wymore
Message 11: Re: Seaweed Extract addition for aquaponics systems
from Gordon Watkins
Message 12: Re: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
from crystal
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Subject: Have you tried Spray 'n Grow?
From: Dave Roberts
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:47:23 -0600
Peggy & Emmett Hoebel wrote:
>
> For geographies' sake, let's say I live in Tampa,Florida
>
> Last year I grew heirloom tomatoes in my garden thru August(most people
> can't get their tomatoes to grow to mid June), and Sweet 100's in my
> aquaponic system. I sprayed my garden tomatoes with kelp spray and
> introduced kelp into my aquaponics system. Apparently the minor elements
> contained in kelp help the plants thru "water uptake stress".
> Tomatoe splitting is a problem where I live because the extreme summer heat
> causes rapid drying of the soil followed by as much as 5 inches of rainfall
> in an hour. Fruit splitting in citrus is also a problem. Rapid uptake of
> water causes the fruit to split. Yet, if the citrus tree is sprayed several
> times a year with a minor element spray the fruit doesn't split. It seems
> that while rapid water uptake is the instigating factor in fruit splitting
> the causitive factor is the lack of minor elements.
> Applying this logic to my splitting tomatoes, and trying to stay organic, I
> tried seaweed spray and it worked. As I poured the liquid into my fish
> tank I wondered what would happen. Nothing happened. Fish don't care.
> Hope this helps............Emmett
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Greetings Emmett!
I used to have the same problem...tried a friend's suggestion and got
some Spray n Grow from Houston. It made them taste like they did when I
was a kid!! WOW! No more splitting, either. Started doing a foliar
spray in early morning before sun comes up and the garden just about
tripled production! I was giving away stuff to everyone that would take
it PLUS canning and eating everything we wanted to boot! It lasts
forever!
I also heard about this thing called Sonic Bloom:
http://www.sonicbloom.com/
http://www.sonicbloom.com/sbluse09.html
http://www.sonicbloom.com/sblmpic1.html
The liquid spray stuff is expensive I guess. BUT the electronic device
is just wild! I have a doctor friend that grows bonsai trees with it
and says it tripled their growth almost overnight...and bonsai trees
grow so slow as a rule...years!! He used the spray n grow instead of
the sonic bloom stuff, too.
What can you loose? Have fun with it!
Dave
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Subject: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
From: donald trotter
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 01:20:55 -0800
Hi Aquapanickers!
I picked this little tidbit of information up on the Canadian RAFI site. I
thought that this might stimulate a little conversation regarding economics
and seed saving. It makes for interesting reading and appears to have
implications for us all.
Ciao,
Dr. Don
>>Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:34:09 -0500
>>From: post-o-matic@rafi.org
>>To: Multiple recipients of
>>Subject: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers
>>
>>RAFI News Release
>>13 March 1998
>>http://www.rafi.ca
>>
>>
>>*** Biotech Activists Oppose the "Terminator Technology" ***
>>*** New Patent Aims to Prevent Farmers from Saving Seed ***
>>
>>By the year 2000 - after a 12,000-year history of farming - farmers may no
>>longer be able to save seed or breed improved varieties. The problem is
>>not the Millennium Bug but the "Millennium Seed."
>>
>>The twelve thousand year old practice of farm families saving their best
>>seed from one year's harvest for planting the next season may be coming to
>>an end. On March 3rd, an American cotton seed company and the U.S.
>>Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced they had received a patent on a
>>technique that genetically-disables a seed's capacity to germinate when
>>planted again. US Patent No. 5,723,765, granted to Delta & Pine Land Co.,
>>doesn't just cover the firm's cotton and soybean seed business but
>>potentially all cultivated crops.
>>
>>Under a research agreement with the USDA, the company has the exclusive
>>right to license (or not) the new technology to others. While only cotton
>>and tobacco seeds have been shown to respond to the new technique, the
>>company plans to have what RAFI's Research Director Hope Shand has dubbed,
>>"Terminator Technology" ready for a much wider range of crops shortly afte=
r
>>the year 2000.
>>
>>According to USDA spokesman Willard Phelps, the primary targets for the
>>Terminator are "Second and Third World" markets. Priority crops include
>>rice, wheat, sorghum and soybeans - crops largely ignored by agribusiness
>>breeders because they aren't readily hybridized (a tried-and-true
>>biological means of forcing farmers back into the seed market every year).
>>By and large, profit-hungry seed companies have shunned these crops becaus=
e
>>the returns don't match those for hybrid crops like maize and many
>>vegetables. With the patent announcement, the world's two most critical
>>food crops - rice and wheat, staple foods for three-quarters of the world'=
s
>>poor - potentially enter the realm of private monopoly.
>>
>>The patent has taken plant breeders by storm. The technique - if it works
>>as advertised - has profound implications for agriculture. But the news
>>has also created division. Some of those contacted by RAFI see benefits t=
o
>>the new technology. "For the first time, private companies will be
>>encouraged to invest in the world's most vital food crops. We can look
>>forward to a new flow of investment into crops whose yields have stagnated
>>or even declined in the Nineties. Now such poor people's crops as rice an=
d
>>wheat will get the research support they so desperately need," one crop
>>economist advised. The patent's defenders acknowledge that the Terminator
>>Technology will mean a hefty hike in seed costs as farmers who now only bu=
y
>>seed when they change varieties are forced to make annual purchases. But
>>they defend hiking seed prices by saying farmers will only opt for the
>>"sterile" seeds if they offer a big advantage. Otherwise, farmers will
>>keep with the current publicly-bred varieties.
>>
>>RAFI's Hope Shand disagrees. "Don't forget, the Terminator was developed
>>by the public sector (USDA) together with the private sector. There will
>>be enormous pressure on public breeders to adopt the technique in order to
>>feed cash-starved government and university research department with
>>corporate dollars." Edward Hammond of RAFI concurs, "Biotech companies
>>that are already patenting specific crop genes and traits will probably
>>insist that other breeders licensing their germplasm use the Terminator to
>>protect their monopoly. It won't take long," Hammond adds, "before farmer=
s
>>run out of choices. Either they pay for the Millennium Seed or they
>>replant older varieties from abandoned breeding programmes."
>>
>>"This is a patent that really turns on the greed gene," says Camila
>>Montecinos of the Chilean-based Center for Education and Technology, "It's
>>too profitable for companies to ignore. We will see pressure on national
>>regulatory systems to marginalize saved-seed varieties and clear the way
>>for the Terminator. One point four billion farm families are at risk."
>>
>>Aside from sky-rocketing seed costs, Neth Da=D2o of the Philippines-based
>>civil society organization SEARICE sees a threat to the environment and to
>>long term food security. "We work with farmers who may buy a commercial
>>variety but its breeder wouldn't recognize it five years later. Women
>>select the best seeds every year and - over time - the rice molds itself t=
o
>>the farm's own ecosystem. Women also cross the commercial variety with
>>other rice strains to breed their own locally-adapted seeds. The Terminato=
r
>>could put an end to all this and increase crop uniformity and
>>vulnerability. It poses a threat to the culture of seed sharing and
>>exchange that is led primarily by women farmers."
>>
>>"Ultimately, the Terminator technology will severely limit farmer options,
>>says Neth Dano of SEARICE. "Will we be left with rice varieties that tast=
e
>>like sawdust and which pests and diseases love to devour?" asks Da=D2o.
>>
>>Camila Montecinos of Chile-based CET is calling for a global boycott of th=
e
>>Terminator Technology. "Governments should make use of the technology
>>illegal," she insists. "This is an immoral technique that robs farming
>>communities of their age-old right to save seed and their role as plant
>>breeders. It should be banned." To this, corporate breeders argue that
>>the new technology simply does for hard-to-hybridize crops what the hybrid
>>technique did for maize. Hybrid seed is either sterile or fails to
>>reproduce the same quality characteristics in the next generation. Thus,
>>most maize farmers buy seed every year. "Poor farmers can't afford hybrid=
s
>>either;" Montecinos points out, "but there's a key difference. The theor=
y
>>behind hybridization is that it allows breeders to make crosses that
>>couldn't be made otherwise and that are supposed to give the plant higher
>>yields and vigor. The results are often disappointing but that's the
>>rationale. In the case of Terminator Technology, there's absolutely no
>>agronomic benefit for farmers. The sole purpose is to facilitate monopoly
>>control and the sole beneficiary is agribusiness."
>>
>>RAFI will be working with its partners around the world to encourage a
>>global ban on the use of Terminator Technology. "By the time it's ready
>>for market shortly after the year 2000, we hope that the Millennium Seed
>>will succumb to the Millennium Bug," concludes RAFI's Shand.
>>
>>For further information (persons quoted in this release):
>>
>>Hope Shand, Research Director
>>Edward Hammond, Programme Officer
>>RAFI-USA
>>P.O. Box 640
>>Pittsboro, NC 27312
>>USA
>>Ph. (919) 542-1396
>>Fax: (919) 542-0069
>>E-mail: hope@rafi.org, hammond@rafi.org
>>
>>Neth Da=D2o, Executive Director
>>SEARICE
>>83 Madasalin Street
>>Sikatuna Village, 1101 Quezon City
>>PHILIPPINES
>>Ph. : 63 2 4337182
>>Fax: 63 2 9217563
>>E-mail: searice@philonline.com.ph
>>
>>Camila Montecinos
>>CET (Centro de Educacion Y Tecnologia)
>>Casilla 16557, Correo 9
>>Santiago
>>CHILE
>>Tel: 56-2-234-1141
>>Fax: 56-2-233-7239
>>e-mail: cettco@entelchile.net
>>
>>RAFI's New International Headquarters
>>RAFI
>>110 Osborne St., Suite 202
>>WINNIPEG MB R3L 1Y5
>>CANADA
>>Tel: (204) 453-5259
>>Fax: (204) 925-8034
>>E-mail: rafi@rafi.org
>>WWW: http://www.rafi.ca
>>
>>Notes:
>>
>>RAFI is a non-profit international civil society organization headquartere=
d
>>in Canada. For more than twenty years, RAFI has worked on the social and
>>economic impact of new technologies as they impact rural societies.
>>
>>CET is Centro de Educacion y Tecnologia, an NGO based in Santiago, Chile
>>with a long history of work on rural and agricultural issues.
>>
>>SEARICE is the Southeast Asian Regional Institute for Community Education =
-
>>a non-profit international civil society organization based in the
>>Philippines. SEARICE has more than two decades of work on rural
>>development and agricultural biodiversity work at the community, regional,
>>and international level.
>>
>>
>> *** Distributed via news@rafi.org ***
>>** See http://www.rafi.ca for more information **
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>>
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Subject: ICIBS Programme April-June 1998
From: Jacky Foo
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:55:25 +0100
As announced earlier in this list, the Inst of Advanced Studies of the
United Nations University (Tokyo) and the UNESCO Microbial Resources Centre
(Stockholm) are jointly organizing the Internet Conference on Integrated
Bio-Systems in April to Dec 1998.
Of special relevance to this list (AQUAPONICS) are two papers. I like to
invite all of you to join the paper discussions. To join, email
listserv@segate.sunet.se and write the message:
SUB ET-ODEN yourfirstname yourlastname, organization
SUB ET-TOR yourfirstname yourlastname, organization
20 April - 15 May. Bjorn Guterstam & Lasse Forsberg (Sweden) Demonstrating
Ecological Engineering for Wastewater Treatment in a Nordic Climate using
Aquaculture Principles in a Greenhouse Mesocosm (listname: ET-ODEN)
11 May - 05 June. John Todd and Beth Josephson (USA) The design of living
technologies for waste treatment (listname: ET-TOR)
regards
jacky foo
ICIBS Secretariat
++
for full programme see:
http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25860/icibs/prog.htm
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Subject: unsubscribe
From: "J. A. Chandler"
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 06:56:13 -0500
unsubscribe
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Subject: Re: Solviva Greenhouse
From: Gale
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 08:06:06 -0500
S & S Aqua Farm wrote:
>
> At 12:49 PM 3/15/98 -0000, you wrote:
> >There is an excellent article by Anna Edey on her Greenhouse in the spring
> >1994 (Volume 5 Number 3) issue of The Growing Edge, if you can find or
> >order one.
>
> Amy - are these back copies still available? If so, please post an address
> for folks to inquire. Our Growing Edge editor "in-house" can probably refer
> us to the proper source. I would guess, though, that a check of their home
> page at
> http://www.growingedge.com would lead you to the details on ordering back
> issues.
It is a pity that this didn't come up six months ago. At that time I
read
the inspiring article on the Solviva greenhouse on the web. Growing
Edge
seems to have removed the back issues from the web in order to sell
paper copies.
The paper copies of 5/3 are available at the site Paula points to for $7
which includes shipping. Less per copy if you buy some other back
issues.
The article is not in _The Best of Growing Edge_, which lists the latest
back issue for sale as 5/2.
> Paula
> S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
> Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
Gale
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Subject: unsubscribe
From: "J. A. Chandler"
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 07:03:49 -0500
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Subject: Help with Hydroponics
From: S & S Aqua Farm
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:51:10 -0600
Received the following request for help this morning. Any of you
experienced with rock wool growing have any suggestions for bugsby@aol.com?
Paula Speraneo
>Date:Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:58:35 -0500
>From: "Gordon J. Mengel"
>Reply-To:
>To: snsaquasys@townsqr.com
>CC: bugsby@aol.com
>Subject: Help with Hydroponics
>
>Dear folks,
>
>I am the Project Director for a national project to "infuse aquaculture
>into the secondary agricultural education curriculum." Since 1990, our
>project has developed a core curriculum for aquaculture education and
>several supporting manuals. We also have and continute to organize and
>conduct teacher inservice training in aquaculture. One area where we
>hope to be able to provide teachers with additional information in the
>near future is Hydroponics/Aquaponics.
>
>As a subscriber to the Aqua-L listerv I had noted several responses that
>you have provided to individual requests for assistance with
>Hydroponics. I received the following request (for help) yesterday and
>thought I would pass it on to those of you who have experience in this
>area. Please, if you have the time, provide any response you might wish
>to offer directly to the individual who sent the request
>(bugsby@aol.com). I would, however, also appreciate it if you could
>copy me as I may be able to relay this information to others who may
>have the same problems. Thank you in advance of your considerations.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Gordon J. Mengel, Special Projects Director/Aquaculture
>National Council for Agricultural Education
>tel: 703-360-8832
>fax: 703-360-5524
>e-mail: gordon_mengel@ffa.org
>
>
>Question:
> I thought you or someone on the listserve might be able to help me
>with some questions I had re: hydroponics. Very briefly, I teach
>Conservation in a BOCES (Vo. Tech. Center) and started a hydroponics
>unit. Everything started great, students designed and built two
>structures (NFT unit and an eb and flow unit). We started various
>vegetables in soil, then transferred to ROCK WOOL cubes. The problem now
>is after several weeks of growth, selective plants are starting to die
>(tomatoes, beans, cucumbers). I strongly suspect that the rockwool is
>holding too much water. We have since extended the time that the water
>flow is off, raised the cubes up out of any standing water, etc...but I
>think they are doomed. Poor timing because our open house is in two
>days...plus the students are getting a little discouraged. I'm a rookie
>at this and would appreciate some advice on what the problem might be
>and how to avoid this in the future.
>
>I can be reached at
>
>bugsby@aol.com
>
> Thankyou.
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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Subject: G.E. back issues, Solviva
From: Amy Knutson
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:58:46 -0800 (PST)
Thanks Paula for catching my attention. Yes, we have that issue available:
$7 for a single copy, $5 each for four or more. You can call Sherry at
1-800-888-6785 to order one. Or, yes, you can order online from the
Website. The searchable online Index will also help if anyone's looking
for particular subjects.
Also, Anna Edey just came out with a beautiful book called "Good
News From the Front: Solviva, How To Grow $500,000 on One Acre & Peace on
Earth." It's published by Trailblazer Press, RFD Box 582, Vineyard Haven,
MA 02658, Tel/Fax 508-693-3341. We'll probably be reviewing it in the
July/August issue and also carrying it for resale.
-Amy Knutson
The Growing EDGE
P.O. Box 1027
341 S.W. 2nd Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
Website -- http://www.growingedge.com
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Subject: Re: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
From: "Jim S"
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:23:18 -0600
All this new tech does is allow genetically engineered seeds that don't
have the same results in the next generation.
If you plant a BT corn hybrid for expl. with this so called terminator
technology applied to it's design, and save the seed, you would still have
corn, just not the special variety they are selling.
I think it will enable more development of seeds by allowing the seed
companies to make more than one years sales.
As it is now, if someone spends a lot of money and develops a great new
hybrid, and you buy it, save your seed, and the seed retains the benefits
of the new hybrid into subsequent generations, why should you buy any more
seed from the designer/supplier?
Would you spend your money to develope these great new seeds, if you _knew_
you couldn't sell more than one generation because everyone could save
their seeds for next year??
Jim S.
Corn and catfish outside, talapia and vegetables inside soon
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> From: donald trotter
> To: aquaponics@townsqr.com
> Subject: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 3:20 AM
>
> Hi Aquapanickers!
> I picked this little tidbit of information up on the Canadian RAFI site.
I
> thought that this might stimulate a little conversation regarding
economics
> and seed saving. It makes for interesting reading and appears to have
> implications for us all.
> Ciao,
> Dr. Don
>
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Subject: Re: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
From: Linda Wymore
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:40:46 -0800
Jim S wrote:
>
> All this new tech does is allow genetically engineered seeds that don't
> have the same results in the next generation.
> If you plant a BT corn hybrid for expl. with this so called terminator
> technology applied to it's design, and save the seed, you would still have
> corn, just not the special variety they are selling.
Well, from the article posted, and from more info I dug up - from
the co. that developed it - it sounds like the seeds will NOT germinate.
See below. And I wonder if this genetic change can be transferred to
nearby crops as happened with a crop of rapeseed (Canola oil). There
was a mistake in the genetic fiddling (which was not discovered until
a whole season had passed), and they found that the genetic change had
been passed through the pollen to similar species nearby. Linda
Tuesday March 3, 10:40 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Delta and Pine Land Company
Delta and Pine Land Company and USDA Announce Receipt of
Varietal Crop Protection System Patent
SCOTT, Miss., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Delta and Pine Land Company (NYSE:
DLP - news; ``DLP''),
announced today that it has been granted United States Patent No.
5,723,765, entitled CONTROL OF PLANT
GENE EXPRESSION. This patent is owned jointly by DLP and the United
States of America, as represented
by the Secretary of Agriculture. The patent broadly covers plants and
seed, both transgenic and conventional,
of all species for a system designed to allow control of progeny seed
viability without harming the crop. The
principal application of the technology will be to control unauthorized
planting of seed of proprietary varieties (sometimes called ``brown
bagging'') by making such practice non-economic since unauthorized saved
seed will not germinate, and would be useless for planting. The patent
has the prospect of opening significant
worldwide seed markets to the sale of transgenic technology in varietal
crops in which crop seed currently is
saved and used in subsequent seasons as planting seed. Delta and Pine
Land Company intends that
licensing of this technology will be made widely available to other seed
companies.
The patent was developed out of a research program conducted pursuant to
a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement between Delta and Pine Land Company and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture's
Agricultural Research Service in Lubbock, Texas. The technology resulted
from basic research and will require
further development which is already underway in order to be used in
commercial seed.
Delta and Pine Land Company is a commercial breeder, producer and
marketer of cotton planting seed.
Headquartered in Scott, Mississippi, with offices in six states and
facilities in several foreign countries, DLP also breeds, produces and
markets soybean planting seed. DLP common stock trades on the NYSE under
the
symbol ``DLP.''
SOURCE: Delta and Pine Land Company
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Subject: Re: Seaweed Extract addition for aquaponics systems
From: Gordon Watkins
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:38:03 -0600
Paula, What rate did you use for adding Maxicrop to your tanks?
Gordon
S & S Aqua Farm wrote:
> > Gordon - we use Maxicrop also, usually only once or twice a year (about this
> time when it's been a very long time since we've had much sun. It's added
> directly into the return water bucket. Yes, it does discolor the water, but
> only for a short period of time. If your water doesn't return to its norm
> within 3-4 hours, I'd be surprised.
>
> Paula
> S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
> Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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Subject: Re: RAFI News: Terminator Technology to Hurt Farmers (fwd)
From: crystal
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:17:44 -0800
Does anyone has any reference books on cultivating new genetic crop
strains? Also, any companies that sell instruments for genetic
engineering would be helpful - or any medical lab?
Best Regards,
Crystal.
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