CHEMICAL SYNTHETIC FERTILIZER IS A NEGATIVE

Stangl’s understands Insects and disease will not go away. Drought and floods will not go away. Extreme heat and cold will not go away and most of all that weeds are your number one concern. Weeds indicate high bacterial and low fungus - unbalance. Number one cause for unbalanced soil and increased weeds is from the use of chemical synthetic fertilizers on your lawn from the past and now.

Weeds like a bacterial soil caused by chemical synthetic fertilizers which stimulates the bacterial side and kills the fungal mass. Coming off of these chemical synthetic fertilizers takes time to get a lawn more fungal, so until that time soil will favor weeds. Stangl’s has introduced a fungal Inoculum as well as included two fungal maintenance applications in the Classic Program to establish fungal mass to balance the fungal to bacterial ratio for the reduction of weeds.

Stangl’s provides the life force to heal and activate soils while due to strong marketing forces paid by advertising bias advice research, if you purchase product/service “A” (which the advertiser will sell or apply for you) the problem will be fixed. Many people then buy the product/service. However one question still needs to be asked; does this fix the problem in the long term or just treat the short term symptoms until next time. Our competitors, big box stores and manufactures continue to increase emphasis on the use of CHEMICAL SYNTHETIC FERTILIZER which is indicating that our soil’s natural fertility is declining (due to the fertilizer itself) and increased artificial supplementation is necessary.

CHEMICAL SYNTHETIC FERTILIZER’S NEGATIVE EFFECTS

·         Synthetic Fertilizer is often applied at excessive rates damaging soil microbial populations and the organic matter that sustains them and subsequently plant life.
·         Nitrogen and Phosphorus are recognised as groundwater contaminates because they are mobile and relocate to surface water with erosion and runoff then into streams, rivers, lakes and oceans creating large algae blooms killing marine life, and turn into nitrous oxide greenhouse gas (which accounts for 25% of the atmospheric greenhouse gas) www.dirtthemovie.org
·         Excessive use of Nitrogen can also promote plant disease, insects, increase water use and weeds.

Stangl's understands the relationship of the DIRT to all plant life. Since 1981 Stangl's has provided the best in lawn care and along the way has transformed the typical quick fix lawn care company that used pesticides and granular fertilizers, to a company that focuses on long term results by providing results today without compromising the environment.

Stangl’s provides the healthiest green approach to lawn care. There have been great advancements to obtain Healthy Lush Lawns through Healthy Soils. Please review www.stangls.com for updates and new additions. At Stangl’s we continually update and add to ensure that our lawns are getting the best products and care. With every service call done this year, Stangl’s has come up with solutions and integrated new products for the 2014 Season to advance the soil and results that we are all looking for.

Stangl’s Healthy Soils Program combined with the Classic Program is the Green Link that produces a healthy soil with beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes for a strong healthy structure that supports the plant life above. It`s time to get rid of your "junk" fertilizer program and step up to Stangl’s for:

·         Balanced soils
·         Energized Microbial Life
·         Massive root system.
·         Increased survival
·         Increased Phosphorus absorption to the detriment of Blue-Green Algae
·         Improves soil structure, prevents erosion
·         Thicker lawns
·         Increased Insect and disease resistance
·         Reduced weeds
·         Drought tolerance
·         Neutralizes soil acidity
·         Stimulates Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

 

From RODALE INSTITUTE, Soil biologist and researcher Elaine Ingham Ph.D

“Good naturally healthy soil is crucial. Amazingly, the condition of the world’s soil today is so poor that it can be classified as a crisis.

Today we try to reverse poor soil with treatments of various chemical fertilizers. Yet no amount of chemical fertilizers will improve the structure of your soil because soil structure is maintained by the microbes living in the soil. Beneficial, anaerobic organisms build and maintain healthy soil while disease-supporting anaerobic organisms build and support unhealthy soil. In addition, soil structure is hindered by having to recover from numerous applications of synthetic chemicals such as salt-based fertilizers and chemicals.

A healthy vibrant lawn requires a healthy soil with beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa and nematodes for a strong healthy structure that supports the plant life above. Soil biologist and researcher Elaine Ingham Ph.D., who studies soil as chief scientist at the renowned Rodale Institute in Kutatown, Pennsylvania, argues that one soil does not fit all. She also disputes soil experts who claim just having soil with the right pH allows you to grow any plant you want. “This is not going to be the case, unless you want to load your soil with inorganic fertilizers and pesticides and all those things that kill the beneficial organisms in that soil,” Dr. Ingham said. For that matter, she continues, “There is no purpose in putting inorganic fertilizer into the soil that (from the start) contains sand, silt, and clay because you have all the mineral nutrients in that material your plants require.” The soil needs the ability to take the nutrients that are present in the soil and convert them into a form available for the plant. Therefore, Dr. Ingham said, there has to be organic matter, food to feed the life in the soil to keep it alive, active, functioning and doing its job.”

 "Water and Air,     
     The two essential fluids on which all life depends,
             have become global garbage cans."

                                                                    Jacques Cousteau

 

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FERTILIZER IS A KNOWN CONTAMINANT

U.S. and Canada need to reduce algae blooms in Lake Erie, report says

 

By Clare Clancy, The Canadian Press August 29, 2013

 

 

 

 

Satellite photo from a NASA website show algae blooms on Lake Erie in this Oct. 5, 2011, file photo. A new report says Canada and the U.S. should take urgent steps to crack down on sources of phosphorus runoff blamed for a rash of harmful algae blooms on Lake Erie. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Photo/NASA, File

Canada and the U.S. should crack down on sources of phosphorus runoff blamed for a rash of harmful algae blooms on Lake Erie, an advisory agency said Thursday.
The International Joint Commission said in a draft report that urgent steps are needed to curb runaway algae — which produce harmful toxins and contribute to oxygen-deprived "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
The issue prompted both nations to reach their first agreement to improve Great Lakes water quality more than 40 years ago, when some considered Erie ecologically dead.
Tougher standards for municipal and industrial waste treatment produced improvements by reducing the flow into the lake of phosphorus on which algae feeds.
The report's Canadian co-author, Glenn Benoy, said algae blooms had almost disappeared but now there is a recurrence.
"Some of the worst blooms we've seen in the lake happened in the last five to seven years," he said from Ottawa.
In 2011, the largest mass on record formed in the lake's western basin, eventually reaching more than 160 kilometres from Toledo to Cleveland, Ohio.
Benoy — a senior water quality and ecosystem adviser — said there is evidence an algae bloom is starting to spread now, but he doesn't know how severe it will be as blooms tend to peak in the fall.
The report says different sources of phosphorus runoff have emerged — primarily large farms, where manure and other fertilizers are washed into tributary rivers during storms and snowmelt.
They accounted for more than half of the phosphorus that reached the lake in 2011, while one-third came from smaller farms and nearshore communities as well as city sewers.
More intense storms likely caused by climate change are sweeping more nutrients into the lake, the report says. Additionally, unlike decades ago, much of the phosphorus dissolves in water, making it easier for algae to consume.
"The ultimate concern is that there will be some toxicity associated with severe blooms and it's this toxicity that can affect human health, animal health," Benoy said, adding that this is in an extreme scenario.
The report includes 15 key recommendations, including prohibition of nearly all use of phosphorus fertilizers for lawn care and the monitoring of sewage plants and other facilities that discharge into the lake.
It also calls for a cleanup plan developed by the governments of Ontario, Ohio and Michigan.
Benoy said other ecosystems surrounding Lake Erie could be affected.
"It's not confined to the western basin of Lake Erie," he said, adding that blooms have also been found in Lake St. Clair.
He said researchers are looking at a multi-year solution to "turn the phosphorus taps off."
The report sets targets for sharp reductions in phosphorus runoff over three to six years, including a 46 per cent decrease in total phosphorus and a 78 per cent cut in the dissolved type for the lake's central and western basins.
"The idea that we could turn time back and go back to a Lake Erie like it was pre-war or something, that will take centuries," Benoy said, adding that the goal is to have the lake in an environmental condition that is "desirable and acceptable" to the public.
"If nothing is done with the recommendations, well, then we get into a scenario where the likelihood of further blooms continues, the severity, the duration, intensity," he said. "There will be nothing to curtail that."
To reach the targets, the report recommends that governments in both countries should require "best management practices" that reduce the amount of phosphorus applied to fields and slow the flow of water to drainage systems. The report suggests one step would be to ban spreading manure on frozen or snow-covered ground.
Another proposal would link the cost and availability of government-subsidized crop insurance to farmers' willingness to curb phosphorus runoff.
"The idea is that if you're contributing to pollution, you're going to pay more," said Lana Pollack, chairwoman of the commission's U.S. section. "There's really a strong need to change agricultural practices, or else just say you're going to sacrifice Lake Erie."
Pollack said if the governments take action on the report "it will make a big difference."
"What happened in 2011 was such a shock that people realize more of the same is just not tolerable," she said.
_ With files from The Associated Press.

FERTILIZER IS A KNOWN CONTAMINANT