This is a book..... ......

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Apr 7, 2019

• #1

......... that should be compulsory reading for every farmer, farm worker, agronomist, politician and input supplier

In fact it should be compulsory for any human being that eats to read

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Re...651731&s=gateway&sprefix=griwing+a+rev&sr=8-1

 

sjt01

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Mixed Farmer

Location

North Norfolk

• Apr 7, 2019

• #2

How does it compare with Gabe Brown's "From dirt to soil"?

 

Forever Fendt

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Location

Derbyshire

• Apr 7, 2019

• #3

When you have read it @Clive pass it on to me for a read thanks

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Apr 7, 2019

• #4

Forever Fendt said:

When you have read it @Clive pass it on to me for a read thanks

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I have it on audio book - just finished “reading” it on the plane yesterday

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Apr 7, 2019

• #5

sjt01 said:

How does it compare with Gabe Brown's "From dirt to soil"?

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Much better book imo. More recent and really makes clear just what we are heading towards if changes isn’t made fast. However it also outlines the solutions and is very positive........ if we get on with it !

 

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Spud

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Arable Farmer

Location

YO62

• Apr 7, 2019

• #6

And if we dont, we'll all be classed as neandertals, the World will go flat, and we'll fall off the end? Thought so!

 

Cab-over Pete

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Location

Kenilworth, Warwickshire

• Apr 7, 2019

• #7

Will it still need lime?

 

Doc

Member

Livestock Farmer

• Apr 7, 2019

• #8

Same bloke, some excellent and thought provoking you tube vids. They have been linked before on Farmer Roy’s thread.

 

Chae1

Member

Location

Aberdeenshire

• Apr 7, 2019

• #9

He's not even cleared last year's bales!

What's the man on the mower going to do?

 

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holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD

• Apr 7, 2019

• #10

Spud said:

And if we dont, we'll all be classed as neandertals, the World will go flat, and we'll fall off the end? Thought so!

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No, rapidly declining yields once a tipping point is passed.

An excellent book @Clive

 

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Never Forgotten

Honorary Member

• Apr 7, 2019

• #11

Can you screenshot page 1 for us @Clive ?

 

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DRC

Member

• Apr 7, 2019

• #12

Quite ironic that Clive was reading it on a plane, whist happily contributing to global warming. When will folks think it’s unacceptable to make so many flights?

 

le bon paysan

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Limousin, France

• Apr 7, 2019

• #13

Read it. Xmas present.

 

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lazy farmer

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Location

som/dor border

• Apr 7, 2019

• #14

I love the comments from those who know it all. Congratulations I’m in
Awe

 

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DRC

Member

• Apr 7, 2019

• #15

Clive said:

Much better book imo. More recent and really makes clear just what we are heading towards if changes isn’t made fast. However it also outlines the solutions and is very positive........ if we get on with it !

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Should that change involve not taking unnecessary flights or driving bigger engined cars that use more fuel. Indeed much of the consumerism that we all enjoy. Or is saving the planet selective?

 

Still Farming

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Mixed Farmer

Location

South Wales UK

• Apr 7, 2019

• #16

Revolution if they don't carry brexit out let alone anything else?

 

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newholland

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Location

England

• Apr 7, 2019

• #17

Excellent, thanks for the link.

 

Goweresque

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Location

North Wilts

• Apr 7, 2019

• #18

There's always someone telling that the world will come to an end unless you do what they tell you to. And it usually involves them making more money somehow, book to sell, research grants, well paid sinecures, positions of power etc etc, funny that.

50 years ago the world's population was out of control and we were all going to die from starvation, then it was an Ice Age that would kill us all, then Peak Oil, then we were going to all die from Acid Rain, then AIDS, then Global Warming, which magically became Climate Change about 10 years ago. There was Bird Flu, Ebola and the Millennium Bug in there somewhere as well, and I'll have missed plenty of others.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. HL Mencken 1918

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Apr 7, 2019

• #19

Spud said:

And if we dont, we'll all be classed as neandertals, the World will go flat, and we'll fall off the end? Thought so!

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No, much simpler than that ......

The planet will simply be unable to feed us

 

Clive

Staff Member

Arable Farmer

Location

Lichfield

• Apr 7, 2019

• #20

silverfox said:

Should that change involve not taking unnecessary flights or driving bigger engined cars that use more fuel. Indeed much of the consumerism that we all enjoy. Or is saving the planet selective?

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Probably you are right

But I think mankind being unable to feed itself is actualy a much bigger problem and more clear / present danger than global warming