We recently put a small amount (200kg) of "Caliope" out as a thumbnail trial on a hectare in a paddock close to the house (Stanley Paddock). We call it a thumbnail trial because we want to move to bigger trials but don't have the dollars.
John Pashai has offered us an opportunity to help him promote his product. He is a passionate soil man, being a farmer and an engineer who bought a 'pelletising installation' which he uses to produce a horticultural product that sells its head off to Italian gardeners. They and some Greek gardeners as well say it is miraculous. It consists of lime, dolomite, humates, and trace elements and plants literally sing when they receive it. For us, as the Carbon Coalition, he formulated a special size pellet for broadacre farming. 
We distributed it by hand. John tells us about the scientists at University of Western Sydney who took some of his product to trial and put his in some "pots" in a greenhouse and over the weekend something went haywire with the heating and every plant in the greenhouse died except those with John's Caliope. 
We hesitated to take John's product on because we're dedicated to the soil carbon trading objective. But things are moving faster than we anticipated and we may just be on the job sooner than we thought. The "Blue Poles" refers to the four star pickets we used to mark olut the hectare. We painted them blue. Caliope means song or singing. The song of life.
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