sheepwise
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- SW Scotland
Agreed but if you are shifting tonnes of grain,lamb,beef or milk off farm then these nutrients have to be replaced from somewhere. Buying in feed on a livestock farm helps with this.That is not farming, its mining. If produce exported off the farm is removing more nutrients than the soil is capable of maintaining, it is a vortex of destruction, irrespective of what system they call their management.
My father used to say that his father told him,when he was a boy, that it paid to trough feed the sheep in the spring as it was very evident that doing so led to better pasture growth. I never knew my grandfather and we are probably talking about 100 years ago when modern methods of fertilising land were not available. However, i am a great believer that these old boys knew what they were talking about.