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Posted: Tue May 17, 05 8:09 pm Post subject: Re: Land use in general. |
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cab wrote: |
Milo, how do you maintain good soil quality and fertility, in a system that of necessity integrates land that cannot easily be used for growing plants as well as the good arable land, without animal inputs? Or, to put it another way, how do you get good yields year after year in an organic system with no animal inputs? |
I think the answer to that would be green manure + non-food animals. Perhaps we could leave the land fallow and let the buffalo (and rabbits) roam. Of course the animal population would expand to use all the food and then starve, which would not be pretty so we would have heated arguments on whether or not to cull ...
Arable is so boring, dairy is pretty. It appears that the EU will be running a large grain surplus this year, so we do not need to be continually searching for higher and higher yield.
I love animals in oh so many ways - roasted, boiled, grilled .. |
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