RESOURCES
In this section
we have articles, speeches, books, and multi media documenting extensive sulfur deficiencies in the USA and around
the world. The main causes of sulfur
deficiency have been the move to petroleum based fertilizer in the 1940s and '50s and The Clean Air Acts of the
1980s which further reduced the amount of sulfur in the air, lessening the amount of sulfur put into the soil by
rain.
Breaking the sulfur cycle in the early 1950s by encouraging widespread use of
petroleum based fertilizers triggered a huge incidence in every kind of degenerative disease which fueled
pharmaceutical profits.Removing sulfur from the air via scrubbers on factory smokestacks in the 1980s under the
Clean Air Acts may have cleaned our air, but it also worsened this already bad sulfur
deficiency.
Articles
"Could
Sulfur Deficiency Be a Contributing Factor in Obesity, Heart Disease, Alzheirimer's, and Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome?" by Stephanie Seneff, PhD., 15 September 2010
"Organic Sulfur: The Missing Link to Regenerating Cellular Health, Boosting Immunity and Reducing Pain and inflammation" by John Hammell
"Questions & Answers" - an excerpted interview with Patrick McGean, Study Director and
Founder of the Live Blood & Cellular Matrix Study
Sulphur in Kansas: Plant, Soil, and
Fertilizer Considerations
by Ray E Lemond, Extension Agronomy Specialist, Soil Fertility and Soil
Management
Crops Require Sulfur: Documents Sulfur
Deficiency in Mississippi
Documents Sulfur Deficiency in
North Dakota
Documents Sulfur Deficiency in
Kansas
Documents Sulfur Deficiency in
Minnesota
Documents Sulfur Deficiency in
Oklahoma
Documents Sulfur Deficiency in North
Carolina
Effects of Sulfur Fertilizer on Corn
Yield in Missouri
"Crop Sulfur Fertilizer Choices" (Today's Farmer
Online)
"Effect of Preplant Nitrogen and Sulfur Fertilizer Sources on
Strawberry"
Speeches
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson made this speach in
1954 documenting a problem with sulfur deficiency that persists to the present day as we can also see from the
articles below which attest to the fact that sulfur deficiency is a common problem over much of North
America.
The four main reasons for sulfur deficiency are 1) higher crop yields;
2) depleted soil organic matter; 3) lower amounts in atmospheric deposition; 4) less sulfur contained as
impurities within modern fertilizers and crop protection products. Sulfur is critical
to the creation of chlorophyll in plants, and it's from ingesting chlorophyll that we get oxygen into our
cells. Sulfur deficient plants are often pale yellow in color, not dark green reflecting this lack of
chlorophyll.Sulfur plays a major role in the formation of the proteins needed to sustain life in all
biological organisms.
Speech By Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson
June 14, 1954, to the National Fertilizer
Association A statement of note on page 4 (PDF page 5):
"I need not dwell here on the importance of fertilizers in improving
our soils. It is encouraging that you continue to increase your production and that farms continue to
increase their use of plant food materials. Besides improving
our materials and mixed goods, as such, we must continuously study our soil requirements and anticipate our
future needs. We know, for example, that many areas of the Southeast may become deficient in sulfur as
the trend continues toward use of higher-analysis, lower-sulfur-containing fertilizers. The Department and
the Southern States are studying this problem. We have learned so far that only about 5 pounds of sulfur per
acre comes down in rainwater in most areas. Once the residual sulfur stored in soils is exhausted, we will
probably have to add sulfur in one form or another."
Books
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Sulfur: A missing link between soil, crops and
nutrition
by Joseph Jez,
Editor. Agronomy Monograph 50, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science
Society of America
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