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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7402966" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>our place is criss-crossed with drains and ditches, from about 1500 BC, or so they tell me, archeologists ought to know.</p><p>in one valley field, drains keep silting up, to my certain knowledge, the drain has been renewed 3 times, and patched up a time or two, causing a real problem, waterlogging about 3 acres, dug a shallow small ditch, 10/12 ins deep, just to try and dry the ground out, that was 4 years ago, the very temporary fix, sorted the job out, and still working. One really has to admire those 'old' folk, that worked it all out, several times when we have 'tried' to alter the course of some drains, it doesn't work. And for the poor lads, that had to dig them by hand !</p><p> But, how does drains and ditches, fit in with 'regen', it's weird to think half the world desperate to save moisture, the other half desperately tries to get rid of it ! We have water popping up all over the farm, and yet, in summer we dry out. Two dry days with that east wind, we were hauling muck out across a kale field, with no trouble, that was so wet last week, we took the cattle off it. And they say, farmers are never satisfied.</p><p>Or do you just count drainage as a 'tool', like fert, spray etc ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7402966, member: 86168"] our place is criss-crossed with drains and ditches, from about 1500 BC, or so they tell me, archeologists ought to know. in one valley field, drains keep silting up, to my certain knowledge, the drain has been renewed 3 times, and patched up a time or two, causing a real problem, waterlogging about 3 acres, dug a shallow small ditch, 10/12 ins deep, just to try and dry the ground out, that was 4 years ago, the very temporary fix, sorted the job out, and still working. One really has to admire those 'old' folk, that worked it all out, several times when we have 'tried' to alter the course of some drains, it doesn't work. And for the poor lads, that had to dig them by hand ! But, how does drains and ditches, fit in with 'regen', it's weird to think half the world desperate to save moisture, the other half desperately tries to get rid of it ! We have water popping up all over the farm, and yet, in summer we dry out. Two dry days with that east wind, we were hauling muck out across a kale field, with no trouble, that was so wet last week, we took the cattle off it. And they say, farmers are never satisfied. Or do you just count drainage as a 'tool', like fert, spray etc ? [/QUOTE]
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