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"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7799811" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>our organic neighbours, always seem to be ploughing ground up, working for stale seed beds, green manure etc, and probably do a good job. But, if we look at it from an environmental point of view, all that heavy machinery, pounding the ground down, and all that continuous tilling, cannot be good for the soil structure, or it's fauna, let alone the amount of fuel used, my wider definition of organic, is no chemical imputs, and better for the environment, pretty continuous tilling/ploughing, is releasing any carbon captured, plus adding no soil fauna, or structure, to me, that seems to miss the principle of organics. The fields adjacent to us, are being ploughed, for the second time this year, first time, they worked it 4 or 5 times, before drilling, very nescessary for weed control, but.</p><p>The other point l disagree with, is, everytime l grow greens, in the garden, bloody slugs and caterpillars, make mincemeat of them, unless l spray, and yet, fields of unblemished cabbages, cauli's etc, just don't get it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7799811, member: 86168"] our organic neighbours, always seem to be ploughing ground up, working for stale seed beds, green manure etc, and probably do a good job. But, if we look at it from an environmental point of view, all that heavy machinery, pounding the ground down, and all that continuous tilling, cannot be good for the soil structure, or it's fauna, let alone the amount of fuel used, my wider definition of organic, is no chemical imputs, and better for the environment, pretty continuous tilling/ploughing, is releasing any carbon captured, plus adding no soil fauna, or structure, to me, that seems to miss the principle of organics. The fields adjacent to us, are being ploughed, for the second time this year, first time, they worked it 4 or 5 times, before drilling, very nescessary for weed control, but. The other point l disagree with, is, everytime l grow greens, in the garden, bloody slugs and caterpillars, make mincemeat of them, unless l spray, and yet, fields of unblemished cabbages, cauli's etc, just don't get it. [/QUOTE]
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