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'You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency'       Dr Linus Pauling (Winner of two Nobel Prizes)

Trace Elements

Every cell of every living organism is dependant upon tiny quantities of trace minerals that go to make up soils. Of these, we now know that some are essential, some desirable and in some cases thay are interchangeable. But all have a role to play.

The complex nature of how these elements act and interact with each other, means that to look at any one of them in isolation would be a mistake. It is also inefficient to think one can use intelligent guesswork to arbitrarily supplement drinking water or animal feeds with trace elements to counter deficiencies in the soil - except as a short term (and expensive) expedient.

The only way to give Nature a helping hand is to restore the soil to its optimum efficiency by correcting the soil mineral balance. By so doing we allow plants and animals to acquire, for themselves, the ideal complex balance.This is essential if we are to promote top-quality crops and livestock  with great benefit to ourselves at the top of the food chain.

It is not an exaggeration to say that many of the ailments that plague man; cancer, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, etc are caused at least in part by deficient nutrition. Trace elements are as vital to every cell of our bodies as they are to the plants and animals - we are also animals after all and we forget this at our peril !  Think of the potential saving to the NHS if, by sensible eating, we could reduce the incidence of chronic diseases and the misery associated with them.

Give a thought to how much could be saved by cutting fertiliser usage. This would in turn cut oil consumption (from which fertiliser is manufactured) and cut nitrate leaching which poisons our watercourses and kills the vital soil microbes. It might not please the large multinational corporations BUT it is sound sense.

REMEMBER - restored soils only need about 50% of the previous fertiliser rates to achieve the same production levels!

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