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Holistic Farming
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5204330" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>The thing is - biology needs that growing root to keep feeding it - this is the main driver of soil foodwebs in most all ecosystems. </p><p>Sure, these things do make a difference - much as some probiotic yoghurt makes you feel really well especially if you have been ill. </p><p></p><p>It doesn't make you feel well if you are dead!!</p><p></p><p>But, just as we have an appendix full of gut microbes, tucked away in a safe place in case we are ever cleaned out by dysentry - healthy soils usually have plenty of things lurking away waiting for the right conditions to really leap forward and multiply.</p><p>Soils can handle a lot of acute stressors but not chronic stressors (eg continued chemical or physical abuse) and probably to these soils these inoculants can make apparent results.</p><p></p><p>Look at sheep scald, as an example of how things can bloom when the biome is out of balance - by all rights I should have to carry all my sheep to the next feed - but I don't fudge with nature and use chemicals to do my dirty work, so I don't have scalded sheep in long wet grass all year - things aren't "out of whack" although something could soon do it.</p><p></p><p>Maybe, wormer, or roundup, I know plenty of farms that use these things and have feet issues in their sheep on any length covers. </p><p>They definitely have things like clover weevils that I don't - it could be mycorrhizal networks thwarting that attack - I do not know! </p><p></p><p>So I don't tinker with perfection!</p><p></p><p>Everything beyond nature is a step backwards IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5204330, member: 63856"] The thing is - biology needs that growing root to keep feeding it - this is the main driver of soil foodwebs in most all ecosystems. Sure, these things do make a difference - much as some probiotic yoghurt makes you feel really well especially if you have been ill. It doesn't make you feel well if you are dead!! But, just as we have an appendix full of gut microbes, tucked away in a safe place in case we are ever cleaned out by dysentry - healthy soils usually have plenty of things lurking away waiting for the right conditions to really leap forward and multiply. Soils can handle a lot of acute stressors but not chronic stressors (eg continued chemical or physical abuse) and probably to these soils these inoculants can make apparent results. Look at sheep scald, as an example of how things can bloom when the biome is out of balance - by all rights I should have to carry all my sheep to the next feed - but I don't fudge with nature and use chemicals to do my dirty work, so I don't have scalded sheep in long wet grass all year - things aren't "out of whack" although something could soon do it. Maybe, wormer, or roundup, I know plenty of farms that use these things and have feet issues in their sheep on any length covers. They definitely have things like clover weevils that I don't - it could be mycorrhizal networks thwarting that attack - I do not know! So I don't tinker with perfection! Everything beyond nature is a step backwards IMO. [/QUOTE]
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