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The Natural Chemistry of Lime in Agriculture
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This book by a distinguished agronomist and agricultural researcher is a factual presentation designed to show farmers how they can increase their crop yields and reduce their production costs so they may enjoy a higher standard of living. Known in some agriculture circles as a rebel because he raises common sense, experience, and scientific fact above the claims of those who manufacture commercial fertilizer and the teachings in many college agriculture courses, Dr. Tiedjens’ More Food From Soil Science provides concrete examples of ways to help cure the agricultural doldrums.
In this book, Dr. Tiedjens has taken sharp issue with the fertilizer manufacturers. “If we look into the reason for our increase in yields during the past 75 years, groups with different interests like to take the credit. The group with the biggest political lobby, the commercial fertilizer industry, likes to take most of the credit when actually they have contributed the least and probably have done the best job of bungling our thinking. Because of the influence of the bigness of the lobby, many of our young scientists have been dazzled into thinking propaganda is truth to the extent that they have allowed the propaganda to guide their thinking. When a person thinks long enough, he begins to adapt his thinking into a lifetime philosophy. The fertilizer industry has been guided by agronomists who have gotten their knowledge from the fertilizer industry. Don’t bite the hand that is feeding you.
More Food from Soil Science attributes today’s increased yields to factors outside the fertilizer industry, particularly the use of lime. Dr. Tiedjens writes, “I doubt whether we can say that these big yields are the result of planned treatment. It is true that many of them have received heavy amounts of plant food, but who can say whether we might not have had large yields with considerably less plant food applied?”
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
- By: Bill Gates
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton, Bill Gates
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change."
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Be curious, not furious
- By Axel Merk on 02-20-21
By: Bill Gates
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Fruitless Fall
- The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
- By: Rowan Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Rowell Gormon
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality when, in 2007, beekeepers watched 30 billion bees mysteriously die. And they continue to disappear. The remaining pollinators, essential to the cultivation of a third of American crops, are now trucked across the country and flown around the world, pushing them ever closer to collapse.
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Compulsory Reading - Share with Everyone!
- By Charles Koenen on 04-12-20
By: Rowan Jacobsen
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The Upcycle
- Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance
- By: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
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The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the most consequential ecological manifesto of our time. Now, drawing on the lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve them as we use them.
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A "must read" for the environmental movement.
- By Love owls on 07-09-13
By: William McDonough, and others
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Water in Plain Sight
- Hope for a Thirsty World
- By: Judith D. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.
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Crucial solutions
- By Shane Emanuelle on 07-25-19
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Uncultivated
- Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living
- By: Andy Brennan
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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Long before the advent of conventional farming methods - which have focused on constant growth, human intervention, and genetic homogeneity - the apple had already grown to become the ubiquitous all-American symbol it is today. Known for their hardiness, ability to adapt to new environments, natural diversity, and plentiful bounty, wildly grown apples were once known as “America’s fruit” throughout the trading world.
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Really good narrator
- By Landon & Sarah on 03-28-24
By: Andy Brennan
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- Roland Eggers
- 05-23-22
Best book on soil ever!
I first read this book over 30 years ago, and was thrilled to see it on Audible. A hard cover is costly but I promise that it is worth keeping for future reference. He provides excellent field observations and good quantitative data on the relationships between various nutrients and their affect on plant growth, yield, and general health. Probably the only guy out there who has ever written extensively and accurately on the value of calcium in the soil. Also the only guy who really emphasizes the overuse of PH as an indicator of soil fertility.
Get this one! You won’t regret it!
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- Roger Mozina
- 12-21-21
Great book, a lot of information
This book and performance was great. immediately going back for another listen. Can be hard to comprehend certain parts in the book while doing other task. But you can always listen to it again.
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- William
- 03-21-23
Limestone
Obviously the author has a limestone obsession. As listening the book one would think limestone is the answer to all farming issues
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