Not at all imo. It seems exactly in support of why organic efforts are worthwhile. It points to some serious and previously unknown problems for those that are not organic growers and why they should consider change.
Imagine how much soil out there has gotten lime, and then finding out the roundup they also sprayed has created a 22 year lifespan calcium-glyophosate metal ion. What that expands to entail is likely going to include filtering every other herbicide or other chemical, even fertilizers, through this same discovery.
One problem with the chemical products is they are so easy to use. And less costly a lot of times. For an idea or fact to work against the utility of time saving or money saving efforts requires some effort or useful weight from itself to balance the organic scale.
I think doctors prescribe medicine in this vein. Starting with diet, organic foods, supplments etc but on the far end of medicinal reality are the harsh chemicals like chemo that work but also come with negative side effects that it is good to know about for their management.
In a larger context I am interested in metals for and used around organic gardening too. Iron and calcium are certainly up there but I have used copper fungicides and that metal seems to be proving that it can build up in soil so some places like UK are restricting it. Here it is still considered organic as far as I know. This article about a discovered ability for chemicals to bind to them is sort of cutting edge for me. So far all I really know is that acids dissolve metals and pH states of soil can thus impact this dissolution resulting in bio-avalable micronutrients or lockup.
I wonder if a vinegar drench could help remediate soil from some of these new metal combo ions mentioned in the articles? It can be pretty acidic like that 30% agricultural vinegar. Probably would not hurt much but weeds at the end of the season and the winter rains might leach it all away.
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