Farming and the Current State of Food Production

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

It's going to be an interesting second half...

Bird Flu Cost the US $3.3 Billion and Worse Could Be Coming

attempts to prevent it, by developing a vaccine, may paradoxically turn out to be almost as devastating—because international trading partners say they will bar imports of any birds vaccinated against the disease.

The dire uncertainty that surrounds bird flu emerged last week at a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Agriculture to examine how the epidemic unfolded and why it spread. (Here’s my earlier post from when the epidemic was still going on.) Just the numbers are jaw-dropping: To stop the movement of the disease, Dr. John Clifford, deputy administrator of the federal Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, testified that 42 million chickens and 7.5 million turkeys were killed. Those numbers equal 10 percent of the egg-laying hens in the entire United States, and 3 percent of the turkeys....

....Possibly the most dismaying thing is that—unlike human flu—there’s no vaccine available, and while a USDA research unit is crashing research on a formula, using it could end up losing producers just as much money as letting the flu rampage. Currently, because of the outbreak, 18 countries have blocked imports of any American poultry or eggs, and another 38 countries have blocked imports from the states that were affected. But because of suspicions of the vaccine—which can suppress birds’ symptoms while still allowing them to pass the virus along—many countries won’t accept vaccinated birds for import.

“USDA believes that if a vaccine were used, some additional trading partners would ban all U.S. exports of poultry and eggs and not necessarily just those from the states currently affected by HPAI,” Clifford testified. “The loss of these markets could cost U.S. producers at least $3 billion in trade revenue.”

With a vaccine off the table, producers may have no option but to guard their farms’ borders, watch for new outbreaks, and wait. They may not have to wait long. Last week, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced it had found a similar strain of virus in a chickadee, its second find in a wild bird so far—and the fall migration season hasn’t even begun.

[bimetalaupt]

WORMS AND LEAF LITTER: REDUCTION ON OIL IN THE SOIL.

At our Ranch we have been winning the battle to reduce oil in the sand with worms and corn meal.  First I dug a shaft from the tarmac to about 5 ft deep: fill it to the top with leaf litter and paper slury.  Then I put a barn red wood riser and fill the tip with peat moss.  I then add two kinds of worms.  The deep worm E. Hortensis and top worm E., Fetida ( this is the old spelling: now has an "O" added).  I feed them huge dose of my worm meal and lots of fresh ater.

After 12 months of resting and water collections by my { Sensitive Water Developed Recharge System} we add Alfalfa plants that have been inoculated with the correct bacteria.  Deer love  high protein.  Free food forever!!

Just a thought,

Bruce

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Now all you need is a land farm so you can make what, a one and six zeros an acre?

[bimetalaupt]

Jul 22, 2015 0:27:57 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Now all you need is a land farm so you can make what, a one and six zeros an acre?

A++++,

WELL: ALL I HAVE IS A LAND GARDEN GROWN IN HOLES IN TE TARMAC.  JAY AND I TALKED ABOUT WHAT TO DO NEXT.  LOOKINGH LIKE FILL THE PIT WITH HARD TARMAC THEN COVWER WITH ORGANIC (LEAVES AND KITCHEN GREENS).

Just a thought,

Bruce

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

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That seems like the best way to regenerate large amounts of tarmac sands and oil dirt - that's the $$$$.

Like you always talk about though, need to have the product. So, you guys gotta get your hands on some good clean dirt so you can get the cash flow going and increase your supply of usable dirt.. soil remediation Regina Sk

That place is closer to Vernon, not Kermit, sorry. At 1420 an acre for a brand and full operation - if you can swing it - makes the around 800 acres of fill that i will have look like a drop in the bucket..

Just my thoughts - as you say,

God bless,

[bimetalaupt]

   

A++++

 Well the next Frame (3 ft. * 3 ft. with a depth of 1 ft. is ready for the Peat moss with Coconut media for the Planting of nine Bulldog 805 Drought resistant Alfalfa with  PreVAIL Premium Added.  As per our Pretest study we should see about ( 2000 lbs.)one tons of Increased protein product per test riser.  The deer and quail love the Alfa test so hunting should be great. 

The information we have is that in 18 to 24 months the tap root should reach the lower water table: this should make for stable growth and food for ten years after the set depth of the plants.  Template reach at this point is great.   All the production of increasing fixed nitrogen and better water retention with increased worm pop make for more growth all the time: we have seen this with increased worm population and less oil concentration in the sand.

Growth has slowed with the lack of rain but the older plants are doing fine.

Bruce

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

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Here I thought you finally got away with your date! .

It's been dry up here this year as well. I'm happy to see the switch from Scott's. Is this it? www.springvalleyusa.com/products/fertilizers/prevail 18 to 24 months makes sense. From what you are saying it seems like you are on the way to being able to reclaim land on the spot. It will be a longer process for your customers, but it will be less work aka overhead for JAL. Now for worm transportation??

One thing I keep meaning to bring up. Peat moss is on the way out, we can't keep destroying bogs. This has better properties than Peat and is a sustainable product.. Just a thought as you say.. pittmoss.com

God bless,

&Co.

PS. What about Tyson foods?? Tyson Stock Plunges After Profit Forecast Is Cut

[bimetalaupt]

Aug 4, 2015 10:20:03 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

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Here I thought you finally got away with your date! .

It's been dry up here this year as well. I'm happy to see the switch from Scott's. Is this it? www.springvalleyusa.com/products/fertilizers/prevail 18 to 24 months makes sense. From what you are saying it seems like you are on the way to being able to reclaim land on the spot. It will be a longer process for your customers, but it will be less work aka overhead for JAL. Now for worm transportation??

One thing I keep meaning to bring up. Peat moss is on the way out, we can't keep destroying bogs. This has better properties than Peat and is a sustainable product.. Just a thought as you say.. pittmoss.com

God bless,

&Co.

PS. What about Tyson foods?? Tyson Stock Plunges After Profit Forecast Is Cut

A++++ & company,

WELL THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT FOR THE COMPOST PILE IS A DUMPTRUCK LOAD OF PAPER FOR SLURRY DIGESTION WITH HIGH NITROGEN UNIT TO 10 CARBON. WORMS GOT TO LOVE IT.  PLANT TO USE THE SMALL PIT FOR THE DIGESTION TEST .  HOPE TO ADD A TRUCK LOAD IN THE FALL OF LEAF LITTER AND WOOD CHIPS.  PLANS ARE TO ADD TEST SAMPLES OF  BULLDOG 805-5 TEST POTS IN THE CENTER ABOUT JANUARY.  ALL HIGH RISK R&: BIG BUCKS!!   NOW FOR SOME BIG DEER BUCKS: ALFAFA IS HIGH IN Ca AND PROTEAN.

Just a thought and my check book,

Bruce

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

, so if you have a big enough reactor in the ground the worm tea is clean and builds the water table?

More risk than we are taking on here I can tell you that. God bless you guys for that!

[bimetalaupt]

Ranch report: Aug 2015
We got rain at the ranch: One of the current projects is to replace our common alfalfa with bulldog 805-5; a deep rooted low moisture alfalfa.  I do have 25 peat pots with the plants hardened.
I hope to added  two pots to the egocentric location in the pit to test the concept of mine for reduced toxic test.

We also will do a goat test for goat land study.
Jay wants to do a REIT for oil and gas holdings. Not sure about the time frame?
We do have R& studies on making better soil from sand  plus worms.  Great fishing worms.

now for the ponds: duck hunting on the ranch looks great..

The quail population also looks great: the 805-5 produces a lot l more high protein seeds and the quail love them!
Well, it is looking better all the time,
Bruce

PS:for details please read ;http://www.epa.gov/oust/pubs/tum_ch5.pdf

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Green power!! IT'S THE WAY OF THE FUTURE.

[bimetalaupt]

Aug 26, 2015 0:00:28 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Green power!! IT'S THE WAY OF THE FUTURE.

A+++++,
Green Power: Sounds like goats eating alfalfa to me. Jay will be able to support at lease 25 goats for the needed food to support all my worms. Now only for the main breed of heat ristant goats.

JUST A GOAT FOR FOOD AND HIDE;
BiMetalAuPt
Agriculture
Goat husbandry is common through the Norte Chico region in Chile. Intensive goat husbrandry in drylands may produce severe erosion and desertification. Image from upper Limarí River

A goat is useful to humans when it is living and when it is dead, first as a renewable provider of milk, manure, and fiber, and then as meat and hide.[31] Some charities provide goats to impoverished people in poor countries, because goats are easier and cheaper to manage than cattle, and have multiple uses. In addition, goats are used for driving and packing purposes.

The intestine of goats is used to make "catgut", which is still in use as a material for internal human surgical sutures and strings for musical instruments. The horn of the goat, which signifies plenty and wellbeing (the cornucopia), is also used to make spoons.[32]

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Sept 5, 2015 5:17:11 GMT -5 bimetalaupt said:

Aug 26, 2015 0:00:28 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Green power!! IT'S THE WAY OF THE FUTURE.

A+++++,
Green Power: Sounds like goats eating alfalfa to me. Jay will be able to support at lease 25 goats for the needed food to support all my worms. Now only for the main breed of heat ristant goats.

JUST A GOAT FOR FOOD AND HIDE;
BiMetalAuPt
Agriculture
Goat husbandry is common through the Norte Chico region in Chile. Intensive goat husbrandry in drylands may produce severe erosion and desertification. Image from upper Limarí River

A goat is useful to humans when it is living and when it is dead, first as a renewable provider of milk, manure, and fiber, and then as meat and hide.[31] Some charities provide goats to impoverished people in poor countries, because goats are easier and cheaper to manage than cattle, and have multiple uses. In addition, goats are used for driving and packing purposes.

The intestine of goats is used to make "catgut", which is still in use as a material for internal human surgical sutures and strings for musical instruments. The horn of the goat, which signifies plenty and wellbeing (the cornucopia), is also used to make spoons.[32]

is RIGHT!

You're going to be goat roping??

Makes sense. Like it says easier to take care of but serves the same purposes for your situation as cattle. I can't say I'm a fan of goats milk, but if you get some sheep too you can have feta cheese and sell wool.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Wait, wheat?

Saudi Wells Running Dry — of Water — Spell End of Desert Wheat

Despite torrid weather and virtually no rain, the world’s largest oil producer once grew so much of the grain that its exports could feed Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Yemen. The circular wheat farms, half a mile across with a central sprinkler system, spread across the desert in the 1980s and 1990s, visible in spring to anyone overflying the Arabian peninsula as green spots amid a dun sea of sand.

The oilfields remain, but the last wheat farms have just disappeared to save the aquifers supplying them. For the first time, Saudi Arabia will rely almost completely on wheat imports in 2016, a reversal from its policy of self-sufficiency. It will become a full member of the club of Middle Eastern nations that, according to the commodity-trade adage, "sell hydrocarbons to buy carbohydrates."....

.....Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Fares, managing director of the Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization, the state agency in charge of cereal imports, told an industry conference in Riyadh last month that Saudi Arabia will import 3.5 million metric tons in 2016. That’s a 10-fold increase from about 300,000 tons in 2008, the first year local crops were curtailed. An agency presentation says the kingdom will rely on imports for "100 percent" of its wheat in 2016 for the first time.

By 2025, demand is forecast to rise to 4.5 million tons as population growth drives demand for flour, positioning Saudi Arabia as one of the 10 biggest wheat buyers worldwide.....

......The shift is propitious as the wheat market weathers the largest glut in nearly 30 years, with bumper harvests filling up silos from Russia to Argentina. Prices for high-quality wheat, which reached an all-time high in Kansas City of more than $13 per bushel in 2008, have fallen to less than $5 this year.

Saudi Arabia is already the world’s largest importer of barley, used to feed camels; and among the top 15 in sorghum, another cereal used as animal feed; and of corn.

It may not be the last country to turn away from growing its own crops. Aquifers in other key agricultural regions, including northern India and northern China, are also under pressure

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

We have discussed the disgusting amount of food waste there is previously in this thread, and now a smart young person has a business that is solving the problem.

www.hungryharvest.net/#how-it-works

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

May 6, 2015 1:21:07 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Considering how much it's spreading around right now in what would not typically be called a flu season, this winter could get nasty....

This is going to be something to watch closely as we are just starting to see a recovery in the flocks.. For the record, this is exactly what happened in China in 2013-2014 - also mentioned earlier in this thread.

Bird Flu Returns to U.S. Poultry Industry With Indiana Case

The H7N8 strain discovered at a 60,000-bird flock in Dubois County is different from those that caused last year’s outbreak

Poultry stocks rocked by avian flu outbreak

[kadee79]

Bim, if I may make a suggestion.... If you don't already subscribe to it, take a look at the magazine geared towards sustainable ag....Acres USA. They cover all kinds of subjects in LOTS of different areas of the US and the world. It's very informative and educational. I've been subscribing to it for several years now. They used to offer a free copy, but not sure they do that any more....but you could ask!

www.acresusa.com/magazine

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

There are some unique ways to get water that are set to come online in the next couple years. We'll see about the rest of the world over the next decade..

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The way of the future.

Japanese firm to open world’s first robot-run farm

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Self reliance and community sustainability; it's the way of the future.

Sweet Water Foundation Transforms Chicago’s South Side

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Further evidence that we aren't running out of food... It's all about sustainability!!

Sustainable fishing practices could recover 77% of world’s fisheries to a healthy state

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Robotics and innovation. It's the way of the future.

Japan's Next Generation of Farmers Could Be Robots

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

As discussed throughout this thread, organics and microboes.

Are microbes the next big revolution coming to big At?

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

because we need to reclaim land!!

-Farming the World: China’s Epic Race to Avoid a Food Crisis

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Apr 23, 2016 15:00:44 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Robotics and innovation. It's the way of the future.

Japan's Next Generation of Farmers Could Be Robots

ROBOT FARMERS SUCCESSFULLY HARVESTED BARLEY WITHOUT ANY HUMAN HANDS