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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 4312502" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite20" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL :ROFLMAO:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /></p><p>I'm not saying that people who gripe are just wimpy</p><p>But it takes a real leap of faith to change a set of habits that have worked well enough in the past. Most all of us are addicts of the past but that's not really where we ate headed as food producers.</p><p>The real crux of the matter is that the quick-fix farming methods are really attractive to look at, so are assumed to be the only way to go, and farmers under pressure just end up intervening more and more until they hit the wall.</p><p></p><p>All that you actually need to grow a crop is something to plant it, something to pick it, and a space to do it. The rest are luxury items, and the future will likely reveal that as fact, as it has done here.</p><p>Fungicides pesticides herbicides are all part of a group that are occasionally necessary, but they seem to go in the annual budget as fixed costs- this indicates something is wrong with a system.</p><p>If a household had an annual £4000 budget for medicines and sticking plaster and doctor's visits, then you would hopefully have someone point out that you need to look at what's going on in your house. </p><p></p><p>Rolling field ruts down indicates that <strong>you got it wrong</strong>, it is not the weather's fault, you are not forced to drive heavy machinery on wet soils.</p><p></p><p>"Oh, but it's different over here"<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite59" alt=":facepalm:" title="Facepalm :facepalm:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":facepalm:" /></p><p>Except it isn't.</p><p>Farmers grow fantastic crops in the tundra of North America, frozen to great depth for much of the year, just not guava and bananas, and not with 20 ton machinery</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 4312502, member: 63856"] :ROFLMAO: I'm not saying that people who gripe are just wimpy But it takes a real leap of faith to change a set of habits that have worked well enough in the past. Most all of us are addicts of the past but that's not really where we ate headed as food producers. The real crux of the matter is that the quick-fix farming methods are really attractive to look at, so are assumed to be the only way to go, and farmers under pressure just end up intervening more and more until they hit the wall. All that you actually need to grow a crop is something to plant it, something to pick it, and a space to do it. The rest are luxury items, and the future will likely reveal that as fact, as it has done here. Fungicides pesticides herbicides are all part of a group that are occasionally necessary, but they seem to go in the annual budget as fixed costs- this indicates something is wrong with a system. If a household had an annual £4000 budget for medicines and sticking plaster and doctor's visits, then you would hopefully have someone point out that you need to look at what's going on in your house. Rolling field ruts down indicates that [B]you got it wrong[/B], it is not the weather's fault, you are not forced to drive heavy machinery on wet soils. "Oh, but it's different over here":facepalm: Except it isn't. Farmers grow fantastic crops in the tundra of North America, frozen to great depth for much of the year, just not guava and bananas, and not with 20 ton machinery [/QUOTE]
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