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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5053636" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>Anyone read the article on "prejudice"?</p><p></p><p>A term often used as an insult or negative connotations, anyway.. but often we find that many our decisions are made from flawed thinking, because of prejudice.</p><p></p><p>(not to be insulting, just observing)</p><p></p><p>It is something to consider, when we make decisions about, well, anything really!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Much of the well meant advice on the forum is extremely prejudiced, in my opinion anyway. I see it creep into our lives in all manifestations, probably just because we aren't aware of it, for what it is.</p><p></p><p>Personally, some of the decisions I make probably fly in the face of popular opinion simply because they aren't prejudiced by the desire to make it about short-term financial gains - I have faith in my belief that my grass will still grow enough without applying stuff to it, then I weigh up the time savings and benefits to the environment, and by looking at the "whole" of grassland management I realise it's better in my context to simply manage what I have, rather than "improve" it through tillage and starting over, or putting stuff on it that may harm the soil or waterways.</p><p>If you only look at performance, then sure I can improve my grassland's short term with a bit of fert or regrassing, but then looking past that I see little need for it so generally decide against.</p><p>My old pasture is productive enough, more importantly are tough and resilient so with proper management they are more efficient.</p><p></p><p>Management is pretty cheap compared to cost of work.</p><p></p><p>Again though, as [USER=1232]@SilliamWhale[/USER] said - it makes it just so hard to quantify "results" with HM - its hard enough with reductionist thinking.</p><p>How do I work out what using a wormer on my sheep makes me, and what it costs me, the financial part is easily examined, but when you consider other implications to residues in the whole farm biome, it's something I try to not need to use.</p><p></p><p>It isn't because I'm scared of progress, it is just my idea of progress is different to many, and probably my values are different also.</p><p></p><p>Some stuff that we don't really like, is still "the lesser of two evils" - notice Will said he is a 'pesticide-using no-tiller' and I can admire that, because I can see the rational thought process that has gone into the decisions.</p><p>How many of us would willingly use a pesticide if we could "just snap our fingers?"</p><p>Some impacts we cannot avoid, and still protect our business - we just need to understand the implications of what we do, that's my take on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5053636, member: 63856"] Anyone read the article on "prejudice"? A term often used as an insult or negative connotations, anyway.. but often we find that many our decisions are made from flawed thinking, because of prejudice. (not to be insulting, just observing) It is something to consider, when we make decisions about, well, anything really! Much of the well meant advice on the forum is extremely prejudiced, in my opinion anyway. I see it creep into our lives in all manifestations, probably just because we aren't aware of it, for what it is. Personally, some of the decisions I make probably fly in the face of popular opinion simply because they aren't prejudiced by the desire to make it about short-term financial gains - I have faith in my belief that my grass will still grow enough without applying stuff to it, then I weigh up the time savings and benefits to the environment, and by looking at the "whole" of grassland management I realise it's better in my context to simply manage what I have, rather than "improve" it through tillage and starting over, or putting stuff on it that may harm the soil or waterways. If you only look at performance, then sure I can improve my grassland's short term with a bit of fert or regrassing, but then looking past that I see little need for it so generally decide against. My old pasture is productive enough, more importantly are tough and resilient so with proper management they are more efficient. Management is pretty cheap compared to cost of work. Again though, as [USER=1232]@SilliamWhale[/USER] said - it makes it just so hard to quantify "results" with HM - its hard enough with reductionist thinking. How do I work out what using a wormer on my sheep makes me, and what it costs me, the financial part is easily examined, but when you consider other implications to residues in the whole farm biome, it's something I try to not need to use. It isn't because I'm scared of progress, it is just my idea of progress is different to many, and probably my values are different also. Some stuff that we don't really like, is still "the lesser of two evils" - notice Will said he is a 'pesticide-using no-tiller' and I can admire that, because I can see the rational thought process that has gone into the decisions. How many of us would willingly use a pesticide if we could "just snap our fingers?" Some impacts we cannot avoid, and still protect our business - we just need to understand the implications of what we do, that's my take on it. [/QUOTE]
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