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<blockquote data-quote="Ebenezer" data-source="post: 1806490" data-attributes="member: 24565"><p>Netherlands is home to world wide seed companies. One that I am most familiar with has 100s of acres of both research and production greenhouses. They are not the only company doing that. So, as in the US, guess where the political financial power might be? The old political axiom: follow the money. </p><p></p><p>The Netherlands has had manure issues for decades. It is finally getting full exposure. I'm sure that it has increased the concerns of ground water. It is different than here in the US. I also wrote 1000s of waste management plans for every species of animals raised in SC for food. The controls used for land application were strongly 2 items: soil tests and a "tool" called a phosphorus index (P index). There were several problems with those standards. #1 - nobody knew where the base data came from to label nutrients on a soil test as inadequate, adequate, excessive or very excessive. It just "was". Secondly, a standard soil test tell you someone's professional estimate of the nutrients that a stated crop will need for ANNUAL production. It is not a tool to tell the needs for multi-year crop production or the banking of nutrients in the soil for future use. Likely, the P index has been replaced now but it was derived from a guy in an office taking a WAG on the needs of buffers, runoff CNs and such. What I did was required by law but I never believed that it was beneficial as some toted. </p><p></p><p>The Netherlands: they would be smart to dry and ship manure to other countries needing fertilizer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ebenezer, post: 1806490, member: 24565"] Netherlands is home to world wide seed companies. One that I am most familiar with has 100s of acres of both research and production greenhouses. They are not the only company doing that. So, as in the US, guess where the political financial power might be? The old political axiom: follow the money. The Netherlands has had manure issues for decades. It is finally getting full exposure. I'm sure that it has increased the concerns of ground water. It is different than here in the US. I also wrote 1000s of waste management plans for every species of animals raised in SC for food. The controls used for land application were strongly 2 items: soil tests and a "tool" called a phosphorus index (P index). There were several problems with those standards. #1 - nobody knew where the base data came from to label nutrients on a soil test as inadequate, adequate, excessive or very excessive. It just "was". Secondly, a standard soil test tell you someone's professional estimate of the nutrients that a stated crop will need for ANNUAL production. It is not a tool to tell the needs for multi-year crop production or the banking of nutrients in the soil for future use. Likely, the P index has been replaced now but it was derived from a guy in an office taking a WAG on the needs of buffers, runoff CNs and such. What I did was required by law but I never believed that it was beneficial as some toted. The Netherlands: they would be smart to dry and ship manure to other countries needing fertilizer. [/QUOTE]
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