Chris,
What do you call low? Selenium Toxicity happens in grazing animals all over the place. I am going to come back here tonight and put up the sites, for your listening pleasure, of the top expert in the country being interviewed on a couple of Podcasts. Also I will include the site where the National Pork Board put out a brochure warning pork producers about it.
Many people are going to be in denial, especially those who want to believe the Government takes care of this feed thing. The reality is their are no Laws written and so no Government agency can touch it without first writing a law. These big feed outfits have lots of money and use it to get what they want (more money).
I don't want a debate on Politics, we all know already how it works.
So, are you are going by what you have heard spewing forth from the Feed Conglomerate's mouths? They want us to believe the whole country is low in Selenium so they can add the same amount in every batch without testing the feed first. Some areas are lower than others, but knowing where your grain comes from is half the battle. There is no easy fix, for the consumer, to this problem. Oregon and Montana are the only States so far who's feed testing Officials are testing FINISHED FEED for Selenium levels. Just call your state and ask them. I know I have already done that, so I already know the answer. So you should check out what I have said here.
Each type of grain will uptake a different amount of selenium, depending on how much protein is in the grain and how much is available in the soil. Selenium binds to the protein. Just knowing the soil is only part of the equation. The grain must be tested to know.
The map is interactive and gives intimate details County by County. You must CLICK on the State and then Click on the County. It gives very technical details, so you should read slowly. So I don't know why anyone would say it is not the best map there is.
I don't know where Chris is getting information but it is wrong. Chris is not checking out the sites I presented for viewing.
Selenium does not affect plants except for them pulling it out of the soil and storing it in the Protein fraction of the seed (grain). I do not jump on any site and talk about Selenium unless I have ACTUAL Research papers to back it up. These are facts, backed up by Research, not Hearsay.
Many sites say a lot of things that aren't true. Use only reliable University or Government sites. Do not believe just any Yahoo out there.
Don't be lazy people, read, read, read, and question whether the source did the actual research or not. Research is easily misinterpreted if you don't read the whole paper carefully.
I ran across a new source where China Rejected a load of Peas from Canada for having too much Selenium. I will look that up and give it to you also.
This discovery of a Selenium problem is fairly new (3 yrs I have been working on it) because nobody thought to test the grain before 2007. Fact is Stranger than Fiction.
What do you call low? Selenium Toxicity happens in grazing animals all over the place. I am going to come back here tonight and put up the sites, for your listening pleasure, of the top expert in the country being interviewed on a couple of Podcasts. Also I will include the site where the National Pork Board put out a brochure warning pork producers about it.
Many people are going to be in denial, especially those who want to believe the Government takes care of this feed thing. The reality is their are no Laws written and so no Government agency can touch it without first writing a law. These big feed outfits have lots of money and use it to get what they want (more money).
I don't want a debate on Politics, we all know already how it works.
So, are you are going by what you have heard spewing forth from the Feed Conglomerate's mouths? They want us to believe the whole country is low in Selenium so they can add the same amount in every batch without testing the feed first. Some areas are lower than others, but knowing where your grain comes from is half the battle. There is no easy fix, for the consumer, to this problem. Oregon and Montana are the only States so far who's feed testing Officials are testing FINISHED FEED for Selenium levels. Just call your state and ask them. I know I have already done that, so I already know the answer. So you should check out what I have said here.
Each type of grain will uptake a different amount of selenium, depending on how much protein is in the grain and how much is available in the soil. Selenium binds to the protein. Just knowing the soil is only part of the equation. The grain must be tested to know.
The map is interactive and gives intimate details County by County. You must CLICK on the State and then Click on the County. It gives very technical details, so you should read slowly. So I don't know why anyone would say it is not the best map there is.
I don't know where Chris is getting information but it is wrong. Chris is not checking out the sites I presented for viewing.
Selenium does not affect plants except for them pulling it out of the soil and storing it in the Protein fraction of the seed (grain). I do not jump on any site and talk about Selenium unless I have ACTUAL Research papers to back it up. These are facts, backed up by Research, not Hearsay.
Many sites say a lot of things that aren't true. Use only reliable University or Government sites. Do not believe just any Yahoo out there.
Don't be lazy people, read, read, read, and question whether the source did the actual research or not. Research is easily misinterpreted if you don't read the whole paper carefully.
I ran across a new source where China Rejected a load of Peas from Canada for having too much Selenium. I will look that up and give it to you also.
This discovery of a Selenium problem is fairly new (3 yrs I have been working on it) because nobody thought to test the grain before 2007. Fact is Stranger than Fiction.
