Helga Dietrich

Hi. I am here in South Africa and always preaching the same argumentation. I even go a step further: Besides the mentioned side or non effects due to administration of so-called growth hormones we must also think of the detremental effect these residues have on the soil microbes (further desertification), the water, the animals and humans. We are becoming more and more immune against antibiotics. ...

I can only recommend to read my comments from yesterday and a few days before re dairy, mastitis, etc. There are much better, easier and more cost effective solutions available. Any information needed please contact me.

This is an excellent article about Health of dairy cows - it is exactly what we preach since many years. e.g. foot rot can further be reduced by using our product K for compost which one mixes with water and possibly with a water can or whatever sprays it slightly over the area where the cows are standing - this dries it out and starts a decomposing process instead of a rotting process. But o ...

Presently there are so many interesting articles in Engormix that I just have to write a comment because these are subjects I know a lot about and that also touch my heart as I do care very much about animals - how we treat them and how much they abused. The saying what goes around comes around makes we wonder how often it becomes a reality because then an overwhelming number of the managers, ow ...

Now that is a positive discovery - wonderful and congratulations. Regards, Helga

Yesterday a wrote a comment re feed lot death increasing and in this comment I also spoke of eliminating growth hormones in young animals because of the negative side effects for the animals and we must not forget the residue that goes into the environment including the ground water. Everywhere in the world scientists are battling to find new effective antibiotics because of all the traces in our ...

From my own experience with feed lots I agree to what is said, the animals are mostly too young and thus react with more stress than older ones. It is a most stressful experience for these calves to be taken away from their mothers anyway (as e.g. in dairy industry), then in addition they are removed from the area with its own energy and ion levels, put on trucks (another most stressful situat ...

Here we go again - more and more medicines will be put in these poor animals just so that the milk productions per animal plus ongoing fertility not be disturbed. Has ever anyone thought that the problems discussed in this article are possibly due to the unnatural high milk production - that this might be natures answer. These veterinary medicine companies only care about the animals as l ...

Before I suggest a possible solution for this problem - I would ask the authors to please let me have the following info: Has any of this root rot ever appeared in crops planted on virgin or for several years organically managed soils? This is very important to know. Should the brown root rot not be found or rather seldom in virgin or organic soils then obviously this has to do with the i ...

It is about time that someone picks up this very important issue and what he writes as also the comments are absolutely true - however valuable points need still to be mentioned: Manure is anaerobe - thus it usually contains as a negative aspect parasites and pathogenic bacteria - and as a positive point the so very important N (Nitrogen) which is needed so badly in agriculture. I must not forget ...