Comments on: Topsoil Crisis: The Race to Secure Fertile Farmland http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/topsoil-crisis-fertile-farmland/2008/09/25/ An independent perspective on the Australian and global investment markets Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:27:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: The Genetically Modified Food You Eat http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/topsoil-crisis-fertile-farmland/2008/09/25/comment-page-1/#comment-92500 The Genetically Modified Food You Eat Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:35:17 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/?p=3823#comment-92500 [...] water. Maybe future crops could recycle more nutrients back into dirt and help avert the looming topsoil crisis. What kinds of GM foods would you want to [...] [...] water. Maybe future crops could recycle more nutrients back into dirt and help avert the looming topsoil crisis. What kinds of GM foods would you want to [...]

]]> By: The Genetically Modified Food You Eat | Singularity Hub http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/topsoil-crisis-fertile-farmland/2008/09/25/comment-page-1/#comment-89233 The Genetically Modified Food You Eat | Singularity Hub Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:38:09 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/?p=3823#comment-89233 [...] water. Maybe future crops could recycle more nutrients back into dirt and help avert the looming topsoil crisis.What kinds of GM foods would you want to [...] [...] water. Maybe future crops could recycle more nutrients back into dirt and help avert the looming topsoil crisis.What kinds of GM foods would you want to [...]

]]> By: ram http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/topsoil-crisis-fertile-farmland/2008/09/25/comment-page-1/#comment-44162 ram Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:34:20 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/?p=3823#comment-44162 This is why Australia should stop burning the brown coal of Victoria (which is almost peat moss) and instead mix it with sewage sludge to produce soil. We could get water if we built nuclear powered (say using Thorium) desalination plants. The whole continent could bloom! This is why Australia should stop burning the brown coal of Victoria (which is almost peat moss) and instead mix it with sewage sludge to produce soil. We could get water if we built nuclear powered (say using Thorium) desalination plants. The whole continent could bloom!

]]> By: Kevin http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/topsoil-crisis-fertile-farmland/2008/09/25/comment-page-1/#comment-44049 Kevin Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:52:43 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/?p=3823#comment-44049 For the last three years I have been converting my back yard into a food garden in preparation for the future (and becasue it is fun). I can certainly agree with your articles comment that it takes a lot of work to produce new topsoil. I have placed tonnes of mulch and trailer loads of manure onto a clay base and it is only just starting to produce now. What will it take to convert millions of Aussie back yards when this crisis really takes off? For the last three years I have been converting my back yard into a food garden in preparation for the future (and becasue it is fun). I can certainly agree with your articles comment that it takes a lot of work to produce new topsoil. I have placed tonnes of mulch and trailer loads of manure onto a clay base and it is only just starting to produce now. What will it take to convert millions of Aussie back yards when this crisis really takes off?

]]> By: rich http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/topsoil-crisis-fertile-farmland/2008/09/25/comment-page-1/#comment-43028 rich Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:46:18 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/?p=3823#comment-43028 too bad your farm aint in the USA. who cares about the dirt when the government pays farmers NOT to grow crops !!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_xX1Ur43I too bad your farm aint in the USA. who cares about the dirt when the government pays farmers NOT to grow crops !!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm_xX1Ur43I

]]> By: Rebecca Lines-Kelly http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/topsoil-crisis-fertile-farmland/2008/09/25/comment-page-1/#comment-43005 Rebecca Lines-Kelly Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:19:49 +0000 http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/?p=3823#comment-43005 Dear Daily Reckoning, I edit the quarterly newsletter of the Australian Society of Soil Science - is it possible to get permission to reprint this article in our newsletter? Dear Daily Reckoning, I edit the quarterly newsletter of the Australian Society of Soil Science - is it possible to get permission to reprint this article in our newsletter?

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