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language IS important
it governs how we see & think about things, not just in "farming" but every aspect of our lives
it governs how we see & think about things, not just in "farming" but every aspect of our lives
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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Even our mental health can rapidly break down if we think the wrong words, enough.
They say we are what we eat - we are often also what we think we are.
Being able to make the tough decisions more easily and with a clearer conscience has really helped me in that respect.
I was just thinking yesterday we could do with a thread for HM book recommendations.
texas pete
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I recently read an interview with Kelly Holmes (ex 800m & 1500m olympian) who has achieved an awful lot, against the odds, I suppose.
Get the nutrition right, keep active and the old positive mindset thing, were her three things....Basic stuff I know, but interesting I think, that however high up you get in your chosen field, it comes back to that basic stuff.
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The Ag support industry must be (secretly) quaking in their boots. I see (can't remember the link) that one of the big multinationals is trying to genetically engineer some beneficial soil microbes so that they can patent them and create a future protected income stream.
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Positivity goes a long long way, in my experience.
I learned just the other day that I broke the same 3 vertebra as Toby Price (C6 C7, T1), and against all odds we are both still riding dirt bikes,, we only have the one life, and I love living mine!
I still have the scars on my neck and head to prove it, but sometimes you don't know what you have within until you properly test it.
The struggle makes ordinary people, great.
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How exactly, does one "patent microbes"?The Ag support industry must be (secretly) quaking in their boots. I see (can't remember the link) that one of the big multinationals is trying to genetically engineer some beneficial soil microbes so that they can patent them and create a future protected income stream.
texas pete
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Broke the same 3 vertebra and still riding dirt bikes....So basically you're both as f**king crackers as each other.
Positivity is pretty much the whole point of this thread though isn't it?? It's the yin to the yang (or whichever way around it is) of most of the rubbish posted elsewhere ad infinitum.
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It was eerie, to watch that documentary, just how much his story spoke about me.
I've had a motorbike since I was 4, but my real passion has always been helping others see what they couldn't, if you tip some books upside down you can see the answers.
I'll help anyone that wants help, because I've felt worthless, I've been broken, and I've been cornered.
But I still love going really, really fast and make being an adult disappear for a while .
I've had a motorbike since I was 4, but my real passion has always been helping others see what they couldn't, if you tip some books upside down you can see the answers.
I'll help anyone that wants help, because I've felt worthless, I've been broken, and I've been cornered.
But I still love going really, really fast and make being an adult disappear for a while .
I know but it's a long thread now and it's hard work to go back and find the post that recommended the bookYou're reading it
You could always start a specific one though....
A short thread with just the names of books in it would be much easier to look through. Now I just use Amazon to recommend books which isn't ideal
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Just had an email from Farmers Weekly ( they're still trying to get me to subscribe) and I see there's an article in there by an agronomist saying cover crops need to be sprayed off well in advance of spring crop planting to enable them to die back and not suck valuable N from the next crop. Kinda goes against the idea Salatin was talking about in the video I posted a page or 2 back.The Ag support industry must be (secretly) quaking in their boots. I see (can't remember the link) that one of the big multinationals is trying to genetically engineer some beneficial soil microbes so that they can patent them and create a future protected income stream.
Suspect Gabe would say they've not got the right cover crop if that's the concern?
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https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/the-holistic-book-recommendation-thread.267330/I know but it's a long thread now and it's hard work to go back and find the post that recommended the book
A short thread with just the names of books in it would be much easier to look through. Now I just use Amazon to recommend books which isn't ideal
There you go
texas pete
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Was the article affiliated with a chemical company in any way? Or was the agronomist independent?
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IMO, all covercrops should contain enough legumes in the mix that the N supplied will match the carbon (biomass) so that the C:N ratio of the residues will nourish the cashcrop successfully over its life. Better yet if the cashcrop is a legume, or at least has a legume companion.
I think that using "amounts" is very dated thinking, monoculture type thinking, and that the flows and succession is where the thinking should be; the covercrop needs more thought and planning than the cashcrop gets.
Terribly backwards, isn't it, when you can just call in Dr Yara?
but isn't it very convienient to call them?
We are about to loose the x-generation which hasn't learned to observe but instead always calls for inputs to change things. Like a sick person reaching for a prescription from a doctor & not willing to work on the origian of the cause.
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There's a bloody long list of books there
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yeah I know, it started to get a bit unwieldy I thoughtThere's a bloody long list of books there