Aw, nothing like a little rain to kickstart a good third-eye cleaning. Can’t tell you how many people I run into or have conversations with about all the madness going on in the world. Yeah, it’s nuts out there. But I’m sick and tired of people saying, almost with a smile, that “we are living in the last days.” I catch myself waiting for them to pound a bible with their fist, screaming, “It’s the End of Times!”
Personally, I belive this is a cop out. It is a perfect excuse to do nothing about what’s going on. It is a pathetic reason to convince ourselves to sit on our ass, refusing to make anything better. Like our old football coach used to say, “Leave a place better than you found it!” That includes the Earth as a whole. Time to roll up our sleeves and start sluggin’ away. But not with the same entranced intentions or this weakened sense that everything is going to end badly no matter what we do. Screw that way of thinking. Life is what we make it. The rest is what we allow to happen through our own brain patterns and expectations and fears. Let’s head right into the heart of this son of a bitch and take on the storm – dancing, singing, kicking, screaming, and laughing all the while.
Woke up this morning to the smell of rain. Rest easy, my fellow farmers. It’s not far away. We’re going to have a good soaking rain over the weekend.Crops are spotted around here, but a rain is always welcomed this time of year, particularly to cool our heels. We’ve been over 100 degrees for 12 straight days with highs as high as 108-110, averaging a high of 104.75 degrees. Forget what the media says about highs of 99 and 101. They’re full of it. This is the hottest July I can ever remember. And now I hear thunder. Bring it on rainclouds, bring it on.
Took a lot of time to study our insect and weed problems over the past few years. I highly recommend the writings of Philip Callahan, Charles Walters, and Arden Anderson, who truly get down to the nitty-gritty issues of agriculture.
This time of the season is spent mostly with focus on weed issues then insects. For those of us who refuse to plant the Genetically-Modified Roundup Ready crops beefed up with Bt genes, here is a brilliant description of the soil structure as an electrical system and why we have such issues. Courtesy of Dr. Arden B. Anderson’s Science in Agriculture.
“To summarize the analogy between the soil/plant system and a stereo system, one could say that the soil-mineral component relates to the stereo antenna and receiving mechanism whereas the biological componenet releates to the multiple-component tuner and speaker mechanism. The stereo system as a unit emits music at some degree of quality, at some level of yield or power (watts.) By analogy, our natural system produces a crop at some degree of quality, at some level of yield or volume. Both stereo and soil/plant systems are energy converters. One converts radio waves to sound, and the other converts solar energy to matter. The design or blueprint for the biological system is held by the DNA, which is the master “information chip” for designing the system. It then acts as the feedback mechanism to keep the system on track. Â
         “Always view the soil/plant/atmosphere system as an electrical apparatus. If you apply something to the soil that interrupts the mineral balance, organic stability, or microorganism activity, you de-tune the circuit reducing its efficiency. At first, nature attempts to re-tune the circuit with additional antennas and conductors in the form of weeds.”
“If the circuit is de-tuned badly enough, nature calls in the garbage collectors, the insects, to clean it up. Disease organisms are simply an indication that the circuit is way out of tune and is building up debris as a result. Have you ever noticed how an overloaded electrical circuit will start to erode or break down, or or how an engine that is out of tune will build up debris?”
Rather than dealing with these issues cosmetically, we can get to the heart of the matter by building up our soil and remineralizing our land to ensure healthy environment for strong, vibrant plants. That is the greatest insecticide of all.
Callahan tackled the issue of what destructive insects are telling us about our soil and plants.
"The corn earworm larvae is one of the most efficient scavengers of sick (chemical farming) corn in the moth world. It is a feeder on the fruiting parts of the plant and is known by the crop it attacks, e.g. tomato fruit worm, cotton boll worm, strawberry worm, etc."
         Wait a second. Scavanger. Sick plants. It was already making sense to me. The book continued.
         " No other insect can be considered a better representative of the electromagnetic spectrum than the corn earworm, even its generic name Helio (sun) signifies light.
         " The earworm eye can see in both visible and UV portion of the spectrum. It lays its eggs at night primarily between 2:00 to 4:00 a.m. when the ultraviolet flash floods the night sky. The night sky UV light puts energy into (pumps) the airborne molecules from corn or sex (mating)scent in the atmosphere. It is like the condenser spark that ignites (lights up) the mercury vapor in the flourescent light tube. Laser like, narrow band emissions stimulated by blue and UV night light, emit in the infrared portion of the spectrum. The spines, (sensilla) on the moth antenna are dielectric waveguide antenna that are tuned by their shape and length to the molecular infrared emissions.
         "As the moth vibrates its wings before and during flight, its body is stimulated to emit both sound and radio waves plus IR light. The male can home in not only on the infrared from the female scent molecules, but also the broad band infrared heat light generated from the body. The sound and radio waves, from the body, modulate (put energy into), along with the night sky blue and UV, the flowing atmospheric plume so that the antenna sensilla can resonate to them. We may understand then that this important agricultural moth utilizes four important parts of the electromagnetic spectrum; UV, visible, infrared and radio.
         "The author has published over 50 papers on the life history, morphology, reproduction, communication, flight and feeding habits of this one species. These are the papers that led directly to the present work on paramagnetic soil, ancient stone structures, cancer, AIDS and atmospheric group frequencies, thus proving, as John Muir stated, everything is connected to everything else."
We've simply created a billion-dollar business with the insecticide industry that doesn't need to exist. If only we'd listen to Nature, learn from Her, we could actually be solving some of our problems in agriculture rather than killing the issue temporarily. By using poisons, we are only creating more long-term issues which will digress the quality of life for all creatures.
Rainfall this past weekend has turned everything around. We have a chance to make a good solid cotton crop in 2009 now. Ten days ago, that was crazy talk. With anywhere from 2-5 inches of rain in the area, most farmers have a little more pep in the step now.
It’s a wild ride out here. The cotton plant is one of the toughest living organisms on the planet. With this year’s rainfall still less than 10 inches to date, it is miraculous to still have the potential for a solid crop in July.