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The inherent danger in pontificating, in e-mail or in an
open forum, one's bold assertion about what Society needs and about "paranoia"
is that one runs the risk that the reader might actually stop to think rationally
and unemotionally about WHAT SOCIETY REALLY NEEDS, and about what society
needs in particular from those self-appointed pontificates.
For example: CTI believes that Society Needs for the technologies of the
manufacturers and inventors of Precision Agriculture to produce --for real
growers-- the benefits that they represent their technologies to produce,
i.e., "Society Needs" for the manufacturers and inventors of Precision
Agriculture technologies --to keep their word to Society.
But CTI Competitors (according to their e-mail, Internet postings, and the
trusting souls brainwashed into making fools of themselves at trade shows)
place much broader, un-American, Mafia-like demands upon those who used
private (NOT TAX PAYER) funds to arrive at the technologies enjoyed by today's
precision growers. CTI competitors (several scientists from the fertilizer
industry and from government and universities, both TAX PAYER-FUNDED) believe
that "Society's Needs" coincide directly and neatly with their
own personal needs. They believe that the manufacturers and inventors of
Precision Agriculture must divest themselves completely of their own private
property, turn it over to them (the aspiring competitors), and then get
out of the way of "their" progress with the technology --for Society's
Sake--, of course.
It is amazing. Those 1) who could not foresee a need for the technology
(particularly not back in 1982, yes 19EIGHTY-TWO); 2) who could not find,
read, understand, or even ask questions about its patent; and 3) who have
no independent, third-party corroboration to suggest that they have ever
provided growers with benefits comparable to those recorded by customers
and evaluators (all independent) of the subject technology are somehow magically
supposed to be better qualified --than the inventor-- to take that technology
into the 21st century. Making it more difficult to imagine is the fact that
these competitors have been assuring a trusting public --for years-- that
the same technology has NO MERIT!
Not too surprisingly, these so-called needs of "Society" would
directly benefit --not Society, which already has access to the technology--
but the aspiring competitors who invested NONE of their personal funds toward
that technology development. Indefensibly, these competitors (including
those from government and academia) would profit (through royalty agreements)
directly from a technology they had discouraged the public from purchasing
for years.
Meanwhile, the inventors, who consumed millions of their
own PRIVATE (not tax-payer) FUNDS to produce a technology that they always
believed in would earn nothing. Although SOP for Agriculture, this practice
of slandering a technology until the inventor divests himself of it to the
slanderers goes against both U.S. Law and Christian values. It is extortion.
No more respectable than the thugs from the mob, these competitors boldly
act to shatter reputations (rather knee caps) until they get exactly what
they want from the inventor, under the guise of "Society's" Needs.
Calling the inventor "paranoid" for merely recognizing the dynamics
of this extortion is actually a component of the extortion, just another
attempt to get him to shut-up and comply.
And What does Society Need from all these Competitors?
Well, Society Needs for those engineers who have been funded for decades
--on public funds-- to conduct fundamental research and develop truly innovative
technologies which tangibly benefit U.S. growers, to do just that. Society
does not need for them to look over the fence, assemble a clone or knock-off
of a private industry technology (one which they have berated for years),
and then lie to a trusting public (including Congress) by asserting that
the clone is "theirs". A provision within the Precision Agriculture
Bill, written in part by the FERTILIZER INDUSTRY and by government contractor
LOCKHEED MARTIN, will enable them to do just that. (Although it is against
federal law for federal employees to lobby Congress, apparently others can
do so for them.)
Society Needs for ALL government offices --not just most-- to be less arrogant
and less aloof from real growers, from real grower results, and from real
grower needs. Society Needs for ALL government offices --not just most--
to serve the best interests of the Nation and the Environment, not the best
interests of their budget nor their schemes for expansion --particularly
at a time when the nation is clambering for lower taxes and less interference
from government. And Society Needs for the government office that is sitting
on three years of water quality data (from McClean county, IL ) which evidence
amazingly low nitrate levels in the tile water of high-yielding fields,
(fields regularly treated by the Soil Doctor® Nitrogen Applicator) to
publish that supporting data. Society does not need for Government to undertake
a three-year water quality study for the sole purpose of documenting what
it hopes will be typically-high nitrate tile water levels on high-yielding
fields. And Society does not need for Government to look for ways to waste
tax payer-dollars to publicly undermine the Economic and Environmental performance
of technologies against which they aspire to compete with government's own
ON-THE-GO NITRATE SENSOR. Maybe Society even needs for Government and Land
Grant university scientists to be ineligible for royalty income, to reduce
their temptation to abuse their positions of trust by deceiving other scientists,
journalists, growers, and even their superiors --just to try to weaken an
organization against which they aspire to compete or to extort from the
private sector private property to which they have no legal or moral authority.
Society Needs for an industry (the Fertilizer Industry) which has assured
the public that it cares about both grower economics and the environment
to quit talking about it and JUST PROVE IT, not to help construct a bill
which discourages fertilizer efficiency, particularly at a time when ground
water across the agricultural regions of the U.S. is riddled with contamination
from agricultural nitrate. Society Needs for that industry to quit using
its influence to make sure that the public hears as little as possible from
all those independent, third parties (customers and scientists from universities,
government, and seed companies) who have recorded impressive, efficiency/economic
benefits about technologies which industry representatives have berated
for years.
Society Needs for journalists to look for the TRUTH to print, rather print
only what's necessary to brown-nose those who want to suppress it.
And --without question-- Society Does Not Need for Department of Energy,
Department of Agriculture, Fertilizer Industry, or even Journalist offices
to take the position that "Yield is not Important, and Neither is Fertilizer
Usage" in so-called "Definitive" Evaluations of the technologies
of Precision Agriculture. (See "Fair" Tests at www.soildoctor.com.)
In short, Society Needs for all of the professionals of Agriculture to KEEP
THEIR WORD, THEIR PROMISE TO SOCIETY, to do what they are supposed to do,
to EARN the trust of a trusting public.
And Society Needs to quit blaming growers for everything in Agriculture
that it considers bad. The majority of growers typically follow the advice
of universities, government offices, or the fertilizer and chemical industries.
They do not set out on their own to pollute or otherwise hurt the nation
or throwing away their own hard-earned income. The rest of the growers simply
use far less than advised to use. (For the rumor "They Won't Tell Anybody
Anything", also see "Rumors" at www.soildoctor.com.)
Thanks for the Opportunity for Clarification and Reflection.
Sylvia A.M. Colburn, Vice President
Crop Technology, Inc.
1 800 N DR - CROP (800 637-2767)
FAX: 281 370-2470
E-Mail: colburn@soildoctor.com
