So, for background, 7% - yes that’s right - 7% of the earth’s surface, by weight, is aluminum. It’s generally more concentrated a few tens or hundreds of feet down, but it’s rare for soil at the surface to have less than 5% aluminum by weight. Yet in this video the farmer claims he has tested aluminum and there is suddenly 5x more than he’s had in the past. Umm, sorry, bullshit. You don’t go from, let’s say 5%, to 25% without REMOVING significant amounts of old soil and replacing it with new.
Now, MAYBE, his pH is down and *bioavailable* aluminum concentration has gone up. If soil gets very acidic that can happen. And that can be toxic. But if his soil is acidic and he hasn’t fixed it, he’s a crap farmer. So this is BS clickbait and I for one am TIRED of it.
Thank you for your reasoned reply.
Anyone who has actually taken scientific measurements knows there is much which has to be done to insure accuracy.
The “amount of aluminum” in the soil is a measure which requires a lot of care, definitions, and explanations to make an accurate assessment.
Thank you for bringing a little sanity to this thread!
As we all know, Aluminum is the third-most-abundant element in the Earth's crust (after oxygen and silicon).
Regards,
Aluminum, as I understand it, does not occur naturally and must be refined...at great expense...from bauxite ore.
Here in central TX they are treating fields with “biosolids”.
That’s human poop to the unknowing.
They are getting it from the waste treatment systems in DFW. Spread it out to dry then loading it in a semi pulled dump trailer. Dumping on the fields and spreading it with tractors.
Oh gee golly, just like they do in Europe.
What stuff is in that?
Can’t be good.