North Carolina and Florida also use migrant workers extensively. I'm not sure
how many of them are legal (or illegal), but I'm sure that percentages would
probably be pretty comparable.
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> BTW, I recently learned that scientists at the USDA-ARS Beltsville
> agricultural research center, are currently investigating the injection of
> bacteria grazing nematodes into irrigation water, to stimulate a timely
> flush of organic matter decomposition...
>
>-- End of excerpt from joel b gruver
I find this very interesting. My research (using organic amendments for soil
fertility, looking at soil biological community dynamics, and comparing the
results to conventional fertilizers) is looking at the nematode communities,
(as well as bacterial, fungal and plant pathogen communities) and we always see
an increase in bacterivorous nematodes with the incorporation of organic
matter, and a _shift_ in trophic group structure from beginning of season to
end of season. I'd be interested in learning more about this research!
Thanks. . .Russ
-- Russ Bulluck Graduate Student Plant Pathology NCSU Box 7616 Raleigh, NC 27695 ------------------------------------------------------------- The soil population is so complex that it manifestly cannot be dealt with as a whole with any detail by any one person, and at the same time it plays so important a part in the soil economy that it must be studied. --Sir E. John Russell The Micro-organisms of the Soil, 1923 -------------------------------------------------------------
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