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however good the stockpile is, it cannot meet the nutritional value of wheat.It's interesting that wheat is affordable when stockpile is not
in an ideal, or vegan world, cows would only give enough milk to feed their calves. However, milk is a nutritious food for us, so it has become a staple food source. To harvest that, nutrition and breeding, has improved milk yield, to a point where it is treated as a nearly 'free' food.
similar reasons with wheat, its come along way from wild grasses.
its the surplus, nutrition, management and breeding has achieved, that supports humans, in such numbers, whether that is desirable or not, is now irrelevant, nature has failed, so far, to control the population.
l have seen 'grass only' milkers, they were very close to a welfare case. While spring/summer grass will allow surplus milk to be taken, autumn/winter will not.
despite the 'rewilders' claims, it is not possible to get back to the natural landscape, and feed the population. Everything is a compromise between nature and man. Regenerative farming in itself, is a misnomer, all we are doing is moving towards/backwards, to a system of farming, that aims to preserve, look after and improve our soils, that then in turn, support us.
that doesn't mean what we are trying to do, is wrong, its very positive, and definitely worth doing, and l cannot see us moving back to 'chemical' farming. Chemicals are there, to be used if necessary, judicially, and their use isn't going to stop, they are indispensable to producing bulk cheap food, which keeps people alive.
the real problem is simple, global population is to high, and wrongly distributed, but l cannot see any 'agreeable' solution to reduce it !!!
in the meantime, we will carry on with our 'compromise', and continue our quest for a more sensible way of doing it. The accounts yesterday would strongly suggest we are on the right path plus we like it.