Ep. 11 - Nitrogen Fixation & Glyphosate Toxicity with Roger Moore

Jay & Ashlee speak with Roger Moore. Roger is a retired Staff Scientist who worked at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Hamilton, Montana. He has a PhD in Organic Chemistry, with a focus on synthetic chemistry and prion diseases. Topics Covered: Prion Diseases, Peak oil & implications for our future, At-home gardening as a silent protest, Haber-Bosch & industrial nitrogen fixation, nitrogen fixation & soil organic matter (SOM), glyphosate toxicity, shikimate pathway & the production of aromatic amino acids, how to calculate your crops' Nitrogen requirements, how to dissociate yourself with Big Ag, closing the loop on the carbon & nitrogen cycle on farm.Papers ReferencedFan et al. 2017 - doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2017.09.015Zhan et al. 2018 - doi:10.1007/s00253-018-9035-0Singh et al. 2020 - doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207519Reddy et al. 2004 - https://doi.org/10.1021/jf049605vSerra et al. 2013 - doi: 10.1093/jxb/ert119Glyphosate Contamination in our FoodHow to calculate Nitrogen requirements for your crops