This some times shows up as bio-security? Or things related to this do?
If you want to plant alfalfa, clover or other legumes; you can often buy a source of the nitrogen fixing bacteria which are meant to be seeded with the seed, so that you get the best crop.
All things in the world, revolve around this idea of forever growth. If you are in the business in innoculating yellow clover, at some point you move to other clovers, then to other legumes, then to .... and it just goes on forever.
That is Wall Street. All businesses must grow, in order to be successful. That isn't real; that is Wall Street's view of the world. Exponential growth always has business fail because they don't grow. I think there has always been service businesses (like the neighbourhood plumber) who fit into society just fine, and never grow (appreciably).
Let's look at white clover innoculants. It may be that the current North American centre for white clover innoculants is Ottumwa, Iowa (I am just making things up). What some biobacerial plant in Ottumwa is brewing, is the bacteria for white clover which work best for Ottumwa. They might be 2% worse for Barber County, Kansas; but that isn't important. The idjuts in big business in Ottumwa can make their poorer bacteria more than 2% cheaper for you; so you
should buy their stuff. And this just spreads all over.
As near as I can tell, there are no Canadian sources of innoculants for legume plants.
Let's get back to this hypothetical situation. A common
answer that could come up, is that it costs too much to ship things from Barber, Kansas to Ottumwa. Which is dumb. I t may be that someone in Barber was already making this before. This better stuff. There is no reason to ship from Barber, it has what it needs already. The problem, is this Wall Street crap about endless growth.
We are talking bacteria, and most of us have
experience (unintended) at growing bacteria. If you have ever left a wet piece of food at an elevated temperature for a few hours; and had someone eat it and get food poisoning; congratulations! You have successfully grown bacteria.
I don't know if there are any bacterial recipes which start from
chicken soup; but
chicken soup isn't far from what bacteria want to grow on.
Finding the bacteria to grow, and scaling them up to the point where you can brew gallons of them can be a little bit of a problem. But once you have a good population of bacteria to draw from; doing a scale-up to inoculate a few thousand acres of white clover shouldn't be too much of a problem. The Wall Street boys who want to do everything out of Ottumwa, they may need to wrry about product stability as it takes some time to ship things from Ottumwa to wherever.
There is absolutely no reason why any community in the world, can't be producing innoculants (to fix nitrogen, or anything else)). If I go looking around the Peace Country; there could be more than 100 kinds of soil. An innoculant made in the Peace Country is probably going to perform better than one made in Ottumwa. All the arguments are like: our medicore product is N% worse than your
local products, but we can make thiis crappier product for much less than you can make thiis localized product.
All of agriculture has known that this idea of producing all innoculants from some mega plant is the wrong solution; and yet we have all been
led down that path.
It is not just innoculants, it is a bunch of things.
So there should be reasons for local suppliers of things like innoculants to become successful. And it would
be nice if government would stop the purchase and closing of local suppliers; just to allow Wall Street to make more dollars.
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