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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="holwellcourtfarm" data-source="post: 7606343" data-attributes="member: 42914"><p>Agreed. Just like the various "how to improve farm safety" threads where folk post that is the poor profitability preventing farms being safe, being paid more would not, in itself, change how safely most folk farm. That requires a new mental approach.</p><p></p><p>I'm neither pro nor anti roundup (I used it here 2 weeks ago on our paths). I do think it's days are numbered though, not least because GM definitely HAS led to roundup resistant weeds in the countries that approved it (something the promoters of both roundup and GM said would never happen).</p><p></p><p>I posted a month or so ago about talking to 2 women from AFBI in Northern Ireland who were helping a project to reduce MCPA pollution of drinking water (from field spraying to kill rushes in grassland). They were promoting use of weed wipers with glyphosate instead. I pointed out that different grazing management could achieve the same result without any chemical application. It may not work for some farmers in their particular context but it's got to be worth looking at. Swapping one chemical treatment for another is just applying the same thinking. </p><p></p><p>We all have to learn to think differently, something that fundamentally underlies this thread and the techniques discussed in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="holwellcourtfarm, post: 7606343, member: 42914"] Agreed. Just like the various "how to improve farm safety" threads where folk post that is the poor profitability preventing farms being safe, being paid more would not, in itself, change how safely most folk farm. That requires a new mental approach. I'm neither pro nor anti roundup (I used it here 2 weeks ago on our paths). I do think it's days are numbered though, not least because GM definitely HAS led to roundup resistant weeds in the countries that approved it (something the promoters of both roundup and GM said would never happen). I posted a month or so ago about talking to 2 women from AFBI in Northern Ireland who were helping a project to reduce MCPA pollution of drinking water (from field spraying to kill rushes in grassland). They were promoting use of weed wipers with glyphosate instead. I pointed out that different grazing management could achieve the same result without any chemical application. It may not work for some farmers in their particular context but it's got to be worth looking at. Swapping one chemical treatment for another is just applying the same thinking. We all have to learn to think differently, something that fundamentally underlies this thread and the techniques discussed in it. [/QUOTE]
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